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May 20 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. 🧵
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

Aug 13
A huge court win today for constitutional sanity.

HELD: The President controls our foreign aid disbursements. Multinational NGOs can’t sue for a right to billions of taxpayer dollars—only the Comptroller General can under the Impoundment Control Act.

Here’s what happened. 🧵 Image
Right after taking office, President Trump issued EO 14,169 freezing ~$10B in foreign aid.

NGOs like Global Health Council freaked out because their gravy train was coming to an end. They sued, arguing the President did not have the authority to stop the flow of funds.
DC District Judge Amir Ali entered a temporary restraining order against the Trump Administration's freezing of the funds.
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Aug 8
🚨A massive win for President Trump against rogue judges.

Chief Judge Boasberg was brazenly trying to punish the President for a dispute over an order the Supreme Court later said he had not power to issue in the first place.

The D.C. Circuit just shut him down. 🧵 Image
This fight dates back to March 15, when the President invoked the Alien Enemies Act to fast-track the deportation of dangerous Venezuelan gang members and cartel affiliates from our country.
Several of the aliens facing removal sued in D.C.

Despite not being the emergency judge on duty, Boasberg assumed control of the case and, in the evening of March 15, issued a temporary restraining order prohibiting their removal under the AEA.
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Jul 31
🚨The newly released appendix to the Durham Report reveals that the Clinton campaign colluded with George Soros's Open Society Foundation to cook up the Trump-Russia hoax and possibly induce an FBI investigation.

This is huge. We have the paper trail. 🧵
On July 25, 2016, right before the DNC, an email from Leonard Benardo—a VP at Soros's Open Society Foundation and close associate of the Clinton campaign—shows that Clinton and her staffers plotted "a long-term affair to demonize Putin and Trump."
Perhaps, most concerningly, in the same email Benardo added that the FBI would soon "put more oil into the fire."

Why did a top Soros Lieutenant know what the FBI was going to do?
Read 9 tweets
Jul 30
Today, I addressed DOJ's excellent decision to file a judicial misconduct complaint against Judge Boasberg for lacking impartiality.

Judges aren't politicians in robes—they're judges.

President Trump's judicial nominees clearly understand that and proved it in their hearing. 🧵
This week, the DOJ filed a misconduct complaint against Judge Boasberg for his improper political conduct at a Judicial Conference meeting in the earlier this year.
Just days after Judge Boasberg told Chief Justice Roberts that he believed the Trump Administration would "disregard rulings of federal courts" and trigger "a constitutional crisis," he tried to prove himself right by issuing the infamous "turn the planes around" order. Image
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Jul 28
Rogue Judge Boasberg may "discipline" DOJ for not turning around planes full of terrorists and gangbangers headed to El Salvador.

Boasberg was just exposed for being biased against Trump last week.

I have new receipts that show he has been a partisan since his confirmation.🧵 Image
This revelation fits a long-running pattern of Judge Boasberg's open bias against President Trump.

Earlier in July, a memo revealed that Judge Boasberg and other DC judges were prejudicially speculating about how the Trump administration might respond to an adverse ruling. Image
According to the memo, while at a Judicial Conference meeting, Boasberg indicated that he and his colleagues were concerned that the Trump administration would defy court orders, despite the Trump administration’s compliance with every court order to date.
Read 12 tweets
Jul 25
In April, Senate Democrats wrote me a letter requesting an oversight hearing on the DOJ's Civil Rights Division. On Wednesday, they got their wish when I chaired a Senate judiciary hearing where @HarmeetKDhillon testified on "Ending Illegal DEI Discrimination & Preferences" 🧵 Image
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Their letter argued that Harmeet Dhillon is "fundamentally transform[ing]" the Civil Rights Division. I agree. Harmeet Dhillon is fundamentally transforming the DOJ Civil Rights Division, and that's exactly what our country needs. Image
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Widespread discrimination plagues our society. Under previous administrations, racial discrimination was permitted to go unchecked — and often actively encouraged — by the DOJ Civil Rights Division through selective enforcement of federal civil rights laws. Image
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