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Nov 27 • 9 tweets • 4 min read
After conducting numerous investigations into Trump, including the one-sided kangaroo court #Jan6 Committee, the Democrats and media are demanding House Republicans and @GOPLeader not investigate Joe Biden. Now this is what @brithume calls chutzpah. (1)🧵
How many times did you hear from 2016 to 2020 that the House and Senate needed Trump's taxes, etc.? The Democrats were so proud of their efforts to investigate President Trump they still have a congressional page devoted to it:

oversight.house.gov/oversight-of-t… (2)
The Oversight Committee says it looked into 1) security clearances, 2) the (phony) issue of emoluments, 3) the Trump Hotel D.C., 4) Ethics and Transparency, 5) Michael Flynn (?), 6) Immigration and Border Issues, 7) National Security and 8) Voter Rights. (3)
These efforts by Oversight do not include Senate investigations of Russia. Nor do they include the two impeachment efforts. Or the two special counsels that Justice had looking into Trump. (4)
The Hunter Biden laptop is a trove of information that the House Oversight Committee cannot ignore. @JamesComer suspects some of the deals Hunter Biden made financially benefitted Joe Biden. This is a serious ethical concern. (5)
House Republicans need to look at the @FBI and @TheJusticeDep dragging its feet on investigations into Hunter Biden for a) lying on a gun application and b) tax evasion. The WashPost reported that they have enough evidence now to charge Hunter. (6)

washingtonpost.com/national-secur…
The FBI has been looking at Hunter Biden for four years, since 2018. The laptop was an unexpected gift to the @FBI but they view it as a curse. The slowness is odd. @TheJusticeDept charged and tried and convicted the founder of Nikola in 2 years, this year. (7)
The Democrats have been somewhat successful in mocking House GOP investigations, from Bill Clinton to Benghazi. That is why they hired David Brock to repeat the playbook. They also have old allies like Eleanor Clift at @thedailybeast, ready with the talking points. (8)
But Hunter Biden is not Hillary, and Joe Biden is not Bill Clinton. The laptop and the testimony of former business partners cannot be ignored or suppressed anymore. (9)

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Nov 29
🧵With the successful re-election of Rep. Larry Bucshon (R) in #IN08, he has become the first congressman in Indiana's 8th Congressional District to win a 7th consecutive term -- since 1932. (1)
"The Bloody 8th" used to be a swing district. It gets mentioned a lot by congressional historians. The Evansville-based district, which stretches to Terre Haute, was called the Bloody 8th because of its swing status, and its fierce battles. #IN08 #Midterms2022 (2)
The Indiana 8th was centered around #Evansville circa 1931. Southern Indiana Democrats were a strong force. They won the seat in 1932 and held it for 10 years. Thus began a decades-long battle for the Bloody Eighth, one that would draw the notice of Newt Gingrich. (3)
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Nov 27
🧵Consumer confidence is dropping. But if you are wondering why the Democrats did better than expected, it's because consumer confidence had not dropped off a cliff. In October, it was higher than 102.5.

1985 was 100, by comparison. (1)

conference-board.org/topics/consume…
The Trump years, until COVID-19, regularly clocked in at above 120 and flirted with a Conference Board score of 140. COVID-19 saw a deep drop to just above a measurement of 80. (2)
Inflation, fuel prices and supply chain issues should have put the measurement below 100, but it didn't. So many voters went to the polls not convinced as consumers that they had been hurt. (3)
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Nov 27
🧵The Security State types are out in force trying to convince us that @elonmusk's ownership of Twitter is a threat to national security, because some Russians, somewhere, may log on. This is a silly argument. (1)
First, the "fire in a crowded theater" is not the case law of the federal judiciary. The metaphor was used to justify a 1919 ban on criticizing the draft, which SCOTUS sadly upheld -- for a time.

The solution is to kick the person out, not involve the feds. (2)
Today, @elonmusk has made clear he will ban bad actors and Russian spammers. But should he ban any or all honest criticism of the war in Ukraine? No. Absolutely not. What the CIA wants is not what all Americans want. (3)
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Nov 15
THREAD. Ron Klain @WHCOS tells some remarkable lies. On @Lawrence (a gullible guy) Monday night, Klain said "no president ... since John F. Kennedy ... (has held on to) Senate seats and potentially even (went) up one Senate seat." This is untrue; @JonKarl also said this. (1)
The best MIDTERM performance on the Senate side by a party holding the White House since 1960 was:

1) 1962. Kennedy. Dems pick up 4 seats despite midterm.
2) 2002. Bush. Despite recession, GOP picks up 2 seats and control of Senate.

So .. 2022 yet, @MSNBC? No. (2)
2a) Tied for second place is Trump's 2018 midterm. The @NRSC knocked off four Democratic Senate incumbents. The Dems knocked off 2 Republican senators. In the end, the GOP Senate majority *gained* 2 seats in an otherwise terrible midterm. (3)
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Nov 15
🧵If @GOPLeader Kevin McCarthy and House @GOP win 218 seats soon, it will be a remarkable comeback for him. In 2015, he was in line for the speakership when John Boehner (R-Ohio) decided to retire immediately. (1)
It was early October 2015, and Boehner said he wanted to leave after taking the gavel in January 2011. The conservatives objected to McCarthy for the next few weeks right up to the closed-door meeting in the Capitol, CNN reported. (2)

cnn.com/2015/10/08/pol…
There were a number of objections, but after McCarthy appeared to diss the Benghazi committee, he could not get to 218 votes on the floor. Conservatives said they might support Dan Webster (R-Fla.), who just had a problem fending off Laura Loomer in the FL GOP primary. (3)
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Nov 13
Not sure who GOP consultant @TheThomasGuide is -- besides the man who just started a Ron DeSantis Super PAC -- but talking to big liberal media about how stupid Republicans are is not the DeSantis way.

P.S. FL media less popular than COVID in FL GOP.

cc: @KurtSchlichter
In October, John Thomas dismissed the DeSantis use of state funds to move illegal migrants to Martha's Vineyard as "self-interest." He said "Republicans win on pocketbook issues with (voters), not busing migrants across the country."

politico.com/news/2022/10/0…

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In August, Thomas seemed to abandon his idea for a DeSantis super PAC after the Mar-A-Lago raid by the FBI. It rallied Republicans to Trump. "It's not gonna go well for DeSantis," Thomas said.

Man! With Super PAC friends like that. Who needs enemies? (3)

businessinsider.com/ron-desantis-s…
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