Thread by @emptywheel

If a Senator lies in testimony before the House Weaponization committee can he be prosecuted, or does that count as Speech and Debate.

Schmitt just lied about the "Hunter Biden" "laptop," among other things.

Now he's lying about Elvis Chan.

Not sure but @Eric_Schmitt seems angry that he can't see Hunter Biden's dick on Twitter. Yet he accuses the President of lust.

@Eric_Schmitt Now @jeffLandry complaining that he can't see Hunter Biden's dick either.

What is it with these depraved men?

@Eric_Schmitt @JeffLandry Jeff Landry also complaining that people can't suppress minority votes on Twitter. Basically pro-Ku Klux Klan Act.

@Eric_Schmitt @JeffLandry Now arguing that Twitter is politically biased bc someone named Kennedy was censored.

@Eric_Schmitt @JeffLandry Landry seems confused about which govt he wants to bring to heel--he's asking to gut the US GOVERNMENT, while helping the Russian and Chinese governments.

@Eric_Schmitt @JeffLandry Eric Schmitt: How dare Joe Biden get rid of Section 230
Eric Lowry: We have to make it easier to sue the tech companies

@Eric_Schmitt @JeffLandry Stephen Lynch notes that these men were allowed to lie and then leave.

@Eric_Schmitt @JeffLandry [Lie is my word]

Lynch notes that Schmitt and Landry were presented as witness about their lawsuits.

Jimmy: Those witnesses aren't here.

@Eric_Schmitt @JeffLandry DWS notes that Landry is not a MoC.

Jimmy: We extended the same courtesy to former Tulsi.

DWS: That was a member panel.

Lynch: Move to strike testimony.

@Eric_Schmitt @JeffLandry Lynch: They have scurried away with your complicity. You couldn't find 2 people to defend their statements.

@Eric_Schmitt @JeffLandry John Sauer, from LA, is so stupid he just described what Trump actually did and claimed it was Biden.

@Eric_Schmitt @JeffLandry Sauer--Jim Jordan's witness--is speaking in favor of violating the Ku Klux Klan Act, to suppress the minority vote. This is how Jim Jordan fights the "weaponization" of federal govt--by making it easier to suppress minority vote.

@Eric_Schmitt @JeffLandry Who is Ivan Raiklin's date today?

@Eric_Schmitt @JeffLandry Matty Gaetz looks sad that he's being called out for lying.

@Eric_Schmitt @JeffLandry Mike Johnson suggests that Landry--who ran away after making false claims--was telling the truth.

@Eric_Schmitt @JeffLandry BREAKING: Jim Jordan now claims that Liz Cheney and Kinzinger were not Republicans.

@Eric_Schmitt @JeffLandry Jim Jordan now defending his First Amendment right to lie to credulous people.

@Eric_Schmitt @JeffLandry Jim Jordan is claiming that Fauci not recalling 300 is a record.

Eric Trump invoked the Fifth 500 times.

John Eastman did similar.

Mike Flynn did similar.

Jim Jordan? Refused to show up.

@Eric_Schmitt @JeffLandry Jim Jordan just lied about what Elvis Chan said.

First, he lied about how often accounts are shared and when.

Second his misrepresented the terms of encryption.

@Eric_Schmitt @JeffLandry Dems playing robocall put out by Rule of Law Defense Fund tied to Jan6.

@Eric_Schmitt @JeffLandry DWS asks Jordan to subpoena John Sauer's role in January 6.

@Eric_Schmitt @JeffLandry Some Republican moves to table the request for a subpoena.

@Eric_Schmitt @JeffLandry BREAKING: Jim Jordan's insurrection protection party votes to protect GOP witness John Sauer from having to testify about his role in Jan6 insurrection.

@Eric_Schmitt @JeffLandry Connolly asks Dem witness Seligman why Fox News reporters would call Dominion claims included in GOP AG lawsuit Sauer was part of "dangerously insane."

@Eric_Schmitt @JeffLandry Chris Stewart likens ensuring white supremacists cannot suppress the minority vote to tactics of the East German Stasi.

@Eric_Schmitt @JeffLandry Dems play a video of the attack on the Capitol against background of robocall from GOP AGs.

@Eric_Schmitt @JeffLandry Matthew Seligman kills it: He notes that both Gaetz and Jordan have proposed legislation that the GOP lawsuit suggests constitutes a threat against the big tech companies.

@Eric_Schmitt @JeffLandry BREAKING: John Sauer and Dan Bishop complain that 8 FBI agents work with Silicon Valley companies to investigate hacks.

[And misrepresent how many FBI agents interact with Twitter.]

@Eric_Schmitt @JeffLandry Colin Allred asks Sauer whether he mentions Trump's Chrissy Taigen "censorship."

@Eric_Schmitt @JeffLandry .@JasonLeopold will want to check out Daniel Goldman quizzing the GOP witness about what he means about "directing," including whether Trump "directed" Jordan to interfere in the Bragg investigation pertaining to what Trump "directed" Michael Cohen to do.