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Sheldon Whitehouse Profile picture
@SenWhitehouse
Oct 8, 2024 • 8 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
In 2018, I pledged to Christine Blasey Ford that I’d keep digging until we got to the bottom of the Trump White House’s shameful confirmation process for Justice Kavanaugh.

I did, and today we have some updates. 🧵

washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/…
My report shows that the supplemental background investigation was a sham, controlled by the Trump White House, for political cover to Senate Republicans to put Judge Kavanaugh on track to confirmation.

whitehouse.senate.gov/wp-content/upl…
A full, proper investigation is the bare minimum that assault victims who come forward deserve.  Dr. Ford and Deborah Ramirez did not get one.
Senators who thought the FBI investigation was “by the book” were misled; there was no “book,” just White House direction and control.
Senators who claimed there wasn’t “corroborating evidence” were not told that the FBI was instructed to look only for direct, not corroborating, evidence.
Senators who relied on there being a “tip line” were not told that no “tip” was ever investigated by the FBI; all were delivered uninvestigated to the White House, and died there.
The Trump White House thwarted proper FBI investigation of the allegations against Kavanaugh, denying Senators information needed to fulfill our constitutional duties.
Senators, and the American people, deserve real answers — not manufactured misdirection — when such serious questions about a lifetime nominee emerge late in the confirmation process.

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Dec 8, 2025
Yet again, actual data show wind and solar are the least expensive power on the grid (and getting cheaper by the day). So the Trump administration is just lying about that. A graph titled, "Wind and solar are now cheaper." Subtitle reads, "Cost to build electricity generation in dollars per megawatt hour, based on recent projects and fuel costs" and depicts the cost for different energy types with "gas peaking" as the clear most expensive.
Trumpsters lie in no-accountability public statements, but when the lie was challenged in offshore wind court filings that asserted huge cost savings for consumers, they conspicuously failed to contest that.
Demand is increasing and outpacing supply. Imagine if our supply no longer included all of renewable energy projected to come online. We’d come up short even faster. A graph titled "US New Electricity." Subtitle reads, "New electrons from solar, storage and wind are expected to outnumber those of new natural gas plants almost six-fold in the next 10 years." A bar graph of cumulative added capacity demonstrates this with data for each source by year.
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Nov 18, 2025
This is getting ugly fast.

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The saga began initially with Trump’s plan to illegally deport people from the United States to a foreign prison. When lawyers for the victims of that scheme got wind of it, they went to court.
The judge in that matter was the chief judge of the federal court in the District of Columbia, Judge Jeb Boasberg. When Boasberg ordered the illegal deportations to stop, the Trump administration violated his order.
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Nov 10, 2025
Many feel betrayal and frustration, and the feelings are hot right now.

I get it. I have my own feelings.

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But there are real dangers out there that must be fought; and energy spent fighting each other is energy lost to that bigger fight.
The sooner we get past internal recriminations and back to fighting united, the better off we all are — the likelier our victory next November.
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Nov 10, 2025
I voted no tonight.

But the next phase of Democrats’ health care affordability fight is starting.

While I personally don’t believe Republicans will keep their promise to work with us on lowering health care costs, I would be thrilled to be wrong.
The American people are with us, and Republicans will pay a heavy political price if they do not follow through on their commitment to work in a bipartisan way to lower skyrocketing premiums.
We have also unlocked some progress on the path to a year-long government funding deal. Bipartisan appropriations are a key restraint on Trump.
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Sep 30, 2025
The latest shadow docket decision moves the Supreme Court further down a submissive pattern of wins given up to Trump: the pattern is 10:1. 🧵
Courts allow bias to be assessed using evidence of pattern, so what’s good for the goose should be good for gander, and pattern evidence should be fair game.
Particularly when the shadow docket allows this Supreme Court to submit to Trump without explanation,  pattern is all we’re left with.
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Sep 18, 2025
It’s always good to pounce on government liars when they lie, so it’s been good posting about Patel lying.

But note where his lies led:

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Saying the Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court in D.C. had issued an order, challenging me “Do you want me to violate a court order?”
The judge later all but said on the record there was no order; Patel was free all along to disclose his own grand jury testimony as a witness in the Mar-a-Lago classified documents case.
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