Trump was permanently banned from Twitter in January 2021 over concerns of inciting further violence following the attack on the U.S. Capitol. During an interview with The Financial Times on Tuesday, Musk called the decision “morally bad” and indicated that he would reinstate Trump if his bid to buy the platform is finalized. Dorsey, who stepped down as Twitter CEO last November, confirmed his approval while replying to a tweet from Axios editor Dan Primack, who noted that Musk said Dorsey was in agreement.

“I do agree,” Dorsey tweeted. “There are exceptions (CSE, illegal behaviour, spam or network manipulation, etc), but generally permanent bans are a failure of ours and don’t work, which I wrote about here after the event (and called for a resilient social media protocol)”…

Dorsey re-shared a January 13, 2021 tweet that maintained he did “not celebrate or feel pride in our having to ban” Trump from the platform but had “made a decision with the best information we had based on threats to physical safety both on and off Twitter.”