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May 20, 2025 • 14 tweets • 5 min read • Read on X
🚨Biden's Disinformation Governance Board was one of the darkest inventions of the Biden censorship regime.

Today, I grilled DGB's co-chair, Jennifer Daskal, on her assault on our freedom of speech.

She lied. Under oath. Repeatedly.

We have receipts. đź§µ
She lied under oath to the Senate Judiciary Committee, repeatedly.

My first question was simple: Did you co-chair the Disinformation Governance Board?

Her Answer: "No"
Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas himself testified to Congress that she was the co-chair.
Not only that, but Daskal herself authored a memo creating the Disinformation Governance Board with her co-chair Robert Silvers. Image
She even called herself the co-chair in FOIA'd emails with colleagues.

So why did she blatantly lie under oath? Because she panicked — she wasn't expecting to be confronted on her wrongdoings today. Image
Also, do you remember Nina Jankowicz? She was the self-described "Mary Poppins of disinformation" and the Executive Director of the Disinformation Governance Board.
Daskal claims to have not have been the "hiring authority" of Jankowicz but was "aware" she would be hired.
Under the charter Daskal wrote, she, as co-chair, was one of the two people with a substantive role to hire the Executive Director.

Another lie? Image
Jankowicz even testified to the House Judiciary Committee that she had a "substantive interview" with Daskal and that she worked closely with her. Image
I asked her if it was appropriate for the government to work with social media companies to censor differing points of view.

Daskal had the gall to say the government shouldn't censor speech. She was co-chair of the Disinformation Governance Board!
Is this the end of the story? No.

We are going to keep fighting to get to the bottom of the Censorship Industrial Complex. If anything. I'm just getting started.
In 2022, as AG of Missouri, I sent a letter to Sec. Mayorkas promising to fight the Disinformation Governance Board "every step of the way." And I'm not done yet. Image
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I will be working with DHS Sec. Noem to ensure the thousands of pages of documents that the Biden Administration redacted under FOIA are brought to light.

They may be dormant now, but if we don't rip them out at the root, our leftist censors will return sooner than you'd think.
As for Daskal? She lied under oath in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee, likely multiple times.

The D.C. Bar, @VenableLLP (her new employer), and the DOJ need to look into what appropriate action might be for something like that. I'm happy to serve as a witness.

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More from @SenEricSchmitt

Feb 5
A Leftist NGO testified before @SenJudiciaryGOP, arguing against President Trump's recent anti-fraud efforts.

I did a little digging into the NGO—Public Citizen—and found two things:
1. It's funded by George Soros.
2. It calls everything it doesn't like "racist."

Receipts. đź§µ
Public Citizen, which calls itself a "national public interest organization," is actually a foot soldier in the George Soros extended NGO network, receiving over $6 million in recent years from Soros's "Open Society" leftist NGO slush fund. Image
But it doesn't stop at Soros, Public Citizen is funded by some of the biggest left-wing dark money foundations in America.

It's mission? Obstruct the Trump Administration and call everything racist. Image
Read 14 tweets
Feb 3
Netflix once said it had a "duty" to "speak up" for DEI, gender ideology, and other left-wing causes.

Today, their CEO suddenly forgot how to answer.

Netflix came to the Senate, asking we rubber-stamp their $100B acquisition of Warner Bros.

Receipts. đź§µ
In June 2020, Netflix tweeted out a video titled "To My White Friends: Guilt, Shame, Embarrassment"

Netflix followed on with a tweet quoting: “We need to do everything in our power to amplify that message..."
And amplify that message they did, with event's like Netflix's "Reform, Solidarity, Action" rally -- hosted by Stacey Abrams and Soros NGO "Color of Change."
Read 11 tweets
Feb 2
The 14th Amendment's Citizenship Clause was never meant to grant citizenship to children of illegal aliens, tourists, or foreign students.

The Drafters said so explicitly. The courts ignored them.

For our national sovereignty, security, and Constitution, I filed this brief. đź§µ Image
Here's what's happening:

President Trump issued an executive order clarifying that the Constitution doesn't grant automatic citizenship to children of illegal aliens.

Activist judges blocked it.

Now it's up to SCOTUS.
The Citizenship Clause says you must be "born in the United States, AND subject to the jurisdiction thereof."

Courts have read "jurisdiction" to mean anyone who has to obey our laws.

But that's both misreading the clause and not the drafters intent. The Constitution proves it.
Read 10 tweets
Jan 13
SCOTUS is hearing arguments on a simple Q: Does our Constitution ban states from recognizing the biological differences btwn men and women in sports?

No, it doesn't.

As Chairman of the Subcomm. on the Constitution—& as a dad of two daughters—here is what I am listening for. 🧵
The case today is a consolidation of two cases: one out of West Virginia and one out of Idaho.

Both involve laws protecting fairness in girls’ athletics by basing teams on biological sex at birth. The lower courts got each wrong. SCOTUS must step in.
West Virginia’s 2021 law requires school sports teams to be separated by biological sex, citing “inherent physical differences” between males and females. B.P.J., a biological male—accused of sexual misconduct—sued.

District court ruled for WV, but 4th Circuit reversed.
Read 8 tweets
Dec 20, 2025
Foreign governments are building a global censorship-industrial complex to crush freedom of speech online.

Now, they're trying to force social media companies to censor American speech on U.S. soil.

I wrote to @elonmusk to sound the alarm. đź§µ Image
In Europe and elsewhere, foreign governments have imposed draconian censorship on their own people.

But they're also trying to impose it here—wielding their power to force U.S. companies to manipulate algorithms and take down content posted on U.S. soil.
We expect this type of censorship in countries like Russia and China.

We don't expect it from our allies.

As @JDVance said, this is a betrayal of our shared heritage—an attack on political liberty in the cradle of the civilization that gave birth to it.
Read 15 tweets
Dec 18, 2025
European governments have imposed tyrannical censorship on their own citizens.

Now, they're trying to impose it on America.

Today, I'm asking the Trump Administration to sanction foreign actors—in the European Union and elsewhere—who aid and abet this censorship regime. 🧵 Image
Over the past decade, we've seen alarming attacks on basic liberties across the West. In Europe, many governments have thrown their citizens in jail—sometimes for years at a time—for criticizing mass immigration, gender ideology, and various other parts of the left-wing program. Image
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Now, they're seeking to impose their censorship on Americans.

The internet is global. It isn't split into country-by-country silos. If an EU regulator makes a platform comply with its speech codes, those speech codes end up affecting everyone who uses the platform anywhere.
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