Rep. David Cicilline showed Democrats how to check Republicans who spread blatantly anti-American views while accusing others of being unpatriotic.

apple.news/ApGjBximuTwmIu…
2/Gaetz is an election denier who backed TFG’s plot to overturn the 2020 election. He 🗳️ to overturn those results after pro-Trump rioters attacked the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. And he's a peddler of the racist "replacement theory"…
3/that alleges nonwhite ppl are being brought into the 🇺🇸 to replace white ppl. Which is to say, he’s in no position to lecture anyone on patriotism.
4/On Wednesday, he proposed a rules amendment that wld give the committee the opportunity to recite the Pledge of Allegiance bef mtgs & allow lawmakers to invite “inspirational constituents” in to lead it. Maybe Gaetz planned to invite his old buddy, admitted sex trafficker…
5/Joel Greenberg? Your guess is as good as mine.
Nonetheless, the amendment was immediately panned by Dems who noted that House members already recite the pledge on the floor daily, …
6/& that no 1 who supported overturning the 2020 election has any credibility when it comes to respecting the republic.

#RepublicanClownShow #RepublicansAreDestroyingAmerica

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Feb 10
#TheReidOut segment covered this article…this is disturbing. Wonder if the #Weaponization committee will cover this?

theintercept.com/2023/02/07/fbi…
2/AS RACIAL JUSTICE PROTESTS broke out nationwide in summer of 2020, a man driving a silver hearse became a reg at the demonstrations in Denver.He was a paunchy 5’7" w a ruddy complexion & wore military fatigues w patches on the sleeves. By activist standards, he was an old-timer
3/pushing 50 as he swaggered thru crowds of teens &20-smthing protesters, a cigar clamped in his lips. “I didn’t know much abt him, but he drove a hearse,” said Zebbodios “Zebb” Hall, a Black activist in Denver. “Inside this hearse was a lot of guns: AR-15s & all other kinds of💩
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Feb 9
Convenient they left out Republican-run gov demands to remove twitter content in the so-called “twitter files“ eh? Irony is truly 💀 & hypocrisy reigns w #Rethuglicans

apple.news/A3GNarU8eR7So1…
2/Elon Musk’s “Twitter Files” focus on Democrats, but former administration officials and Twitter employees say Trump’s team and other Republicans routinely demanded posts be taken down.
3/When the WH called up Twitter in the early am hours of Sept 9, 2019, officials had what they believed was a serious issue to report: Famous model Chrissy Teigen had just called TFG “a pussy ass bitch” on Twitter — & the WH wanted the tweet to come down. #HypocrisyHasNoLimits
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2/Allison Guerriero still remembers when her ex-boyfriend, Charlie McGonigal, bought a 2nd 📱FBI had just ordered its staff to delete WhatsApp from their bureau-issued📱& he was panicking. No longer cld he, 1 of the FBI's top NY dons, send encrypted messages to whomever he was 💬
3/That was a prob. Guerriero didn't know exactly what McGonigal was using WhatsApp for — he never used it to communicate w her — but he was on there a lot. So McGonigal went out & bought a 2nd iPhone to use on the side. He used it almost exclusively for WhatsApp.
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Cy Vance dropped a potential felony fraud a RE fraud case involving Trump SoHo a 🏨 & condo project against Ivanka & Don Jr., bef a campaign contribution made to Vance. Investigators believed Trumps had made falsely reassuring statements to prospective buyers of units #DeadlineWH
2/Reporters learned evidence included 📧 chains in which the Trumps “discussed how to coördinate false info.” In another set of communications, they apparently reassured a broker who was concerned abt the deception.

#DeadlineWH
3/When the investigation got hot in May of 2012, Trump personal lawyer Marc Kasowitz went to meet w Vance. 3 months later, the case went away. Kasowitz reportedly later bragged abt his work, saying it was “amazing I got them off.”
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Jan 27
We cannot let this be ignored: "soon after giving Mr. Durham his assignment, Mr. Barr summoned the head of the National Security Agency, Paul M. Nakasone, to his office. In front of several aides, Mr. Barr demanded that the N.S.A. cooperate with the Durham inquiry."
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OMFG are you WATCHING #DeadlineWH ??
So the 1st hr she did a great report on the death of #TyreNichols & charges against the cops who killed him. Then she did a segment on #UkraineRussiaWar then a segment on J6 supporter Eastman who was charged w multiple disciplinary counts by CA Bar & likely to lead to disbarment!
2/ok, so back to the main reason for my tweet. I fell asleep accidentally & woke up to THIS…
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