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Jul 28, 2020, 6 tweets

#BarrHearing
DEM Nadler recites a blistering litany of staggering corruption, disinformation & even violence by Barr's DOJ

GOP Jordan presents a fever dream of disinformation, fake narrative after fake narrative, and the obligatory agitprop video of looters, fire & police widow

Of course, Republicans start off #BarrHearing by playing dirty. Nadler says Jim Jordan broke Committee rules by playing that insanely long agitprop video maligning protesters & media with a mish-mash of violent imagery to agitate emotional responses. That's what propagandists do.

Nadler asks Barr directly: Is his operation to deploy law enforcement to cities an effort to help Trump's re-election campaign?

Barr says the op was announced earlier. Uh—right after impeachment. So of COURSE, obviously political move to keep Republicans in power.
#BarrHearing

The number of times Republicans say "the Obama-Biden administration" pretty much tells you their goal in the #BarrHearing is to distort reality, push disinformation and try to smear Biden with it. GOP's always laser-focused on elections. Playing dirty. Winning at all costs.

Barr: No, I don't believe there's systemic racism in police departments generally.
#BarrHearing

Louis Gohmert goes full Joe McCarthy accusing protesters of being Marxists using Bolshevik tactics.

He throws in a reference to Chinese Communist Party… because propaganda buzzwords are what Republicans have been reduced to.
#BarrHearing

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