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Senator Eric Schmitt Profile picture
@SenEricSchmitt
May 20 • 14 tweets • 5 min read • Read on X
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🚨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. 🧵
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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Dec 20
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. 🧵 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.
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Dec 18
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.
Read 16 tweets
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Dec 18
Rogue Judge Boasberg has been rubber-stamping gag orders in violation of the law. The federal courts response: "these requests are normally granted."

This practice aids and abets prosecutorial abuses.

Here's what happened—and how it connects to Judge Boasberg and Jack Smith.🧵
Recently, the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts sent a letter to Congress admitting that judges have been improperly rubberstamping non-disclosure orders—gag orders that prevent phone companies from alerting customers that law enforcement has subpoenaed their records. Image
That's a huge problem.

The law requires judges to make individualized determinations that the facts of the case necessitate this secrecy.

If judges were rubber-stamping NDOs/gag orders without even knowing the identity of the individuals involved, then that violates the law. Image
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Dec 17
I was just targeted and sued by Communist China in a $50 Billion Lawfare campaign—retaliation against me for winning a $24 Billion judgment against China for hoarding PPE during COVID.

This baseless, meritless lawfare is unprecedented. I'm fighting it with everything I've got.🧵 Image
April 2020: I filed Schmitt v. the People's Republic of China, fighting back against the PRC's hoarding of PPE and lying to the international community.

Today: The Wuhan Virology Lab (yes, that one) and the Chinese Government are suing me for exposing the truth. Image
Instead of trying to defend its indefensible behavior, Communist China responded with frivolous lawfare, attempting to absolve themselves of all wrongdoing in the early days of the pandemic.

From the Lab Leak to PPE Hoarding, they deny it all.

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Dec 15
20 Democrat states are suing the Trump Administration to block its H-1B visa crackdown.

These states claim they need H-1Bs to import "skilled foreign workers."

But let's take a look at how they're actually using these visas. 🧵
We'll start with California, whose AG accused the Trump Administration of trying to "shut out the skilled workers America depends on."

He claimed H-1Bs are needed to import "highly skilled foreign national workers" to fix "nationwide labor shortages."
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That's odd, given that California has been the site of some of the most egregious H-1B abuse.

Take the infamous case of Southern California Edison: Hundreds of U.S. tech workers were laid off and then forced to train their H-1B replacements just to get their severance package. Image
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Dec 8
Is the headless fourth branch of government constitutional? I say no.

Today, SCOTUS hears arguments in Trump v. Slaughter. The Court will decide the fate of "Humphrey's Executor," a 90-year-old unconstitutional precedent that created that fourth branch.

My Amicus Brief. 🧵 Image
In March, President Trump fired two unaccountable Democrat Federal Trade Commissioners.

One of those commissioners, Rebecca Slaughter, sued—arguing the President did not have the power to fire her without cause.
In the run-up to today's argument, the Trump Administration has won some early preliminary wins in this case—including a preliminary ruling that has kept former FTC Comm'r Slaughter sidelined for the duration of the litigation.
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