Thread by @ggreenwald

1/ This predictably viral tweet from a Georgetown #Resistance Professor is an obvious distortion. In fact, it attributes to me a view -- that nobody can form judgments absent formal charges -- that I *explicitly* rejected. What's needed aren't formal charges but *evidence*:

https://twitter.com/donmoyn/status/1381427518947876870

2/ All anyone has to do is read my article to see how many lies are circulating on Twitter, to the point of, again, trending. I explicitly said we *don't* need trials to form judgments - just *evidence* (which we have with Hunter's business deals but not Gaetz's private life):

3/ I only made two points: 1) we should wait for evidence before assuming guilt, particularly for grave accusations; and 2) it's difficult to reconcile moral condemnation here with prevailing left-wing views on sex work, drug use, and bodily autonomy. You can hear it right here:

4/ This is controversial only because, like free speech, liberals don't believe in due process. It was so easy to predict - as I did in the article & the video - what the smears would be: just for urging caution before guilt is assumed. Twitter is built for these smears.

5/ If you want to see what I actually wrote and said about this case -- and how wildly divergent it is from those lying about what I said to make my name trend again -- just look for yourself. The article & video are freely available and easy to read:

greenwald.substack.com/p/due-process-…

6/ The Gaetz investigation is a news story. Of course journalists should cover it. But it's just that: an *investigation*. What they shouldn't do is make claims without evidence, recklessly assume guilt, or baselessly moralize. That this is even controversial is deranged.

7/ And one last time:

https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1381399524179075075

8/ One last point: for those who claim I created these standards to defend Matt Gaetz, I made all the same arguments about Eliot Spitzer's prostitution scandal involving consenting adults. It is possible to apply principles without regard to partisanship:

salon.com/2008/12/17/spi…