Since my original report, which notes her op-ed claiming that Trump—her current boss—is "unfit to hold office," I learned two crucial things: Goldstein's political donations & what she did w/Harris.
Goldstein gave more than $12K to Democrats, particularly the Harris campaign and the DNC, last year.
While bureaucrats can, of course, contribute to whichever campaigns they wish, this shows she still opposed Trump after the 2019 op-ed.
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Most importantly, Goldstein appears to have joined Harris specifically to advise her on the confirmation hearings for Brett Kavanaugh.
Her law firm noted that Goldstein "was part of the small team that helped prepare the senator" for the Kavanaugh hearings.
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That's quite significant. Brief refresher: Harris was particularly aggressive against Brett Kavanaugh when Trump nominated him to the Supreme Court in 2018.
@JCNSeverino described Harris as "a ringleader" in the Kavanaugh hearing "circus."
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Harris forwarded an anonymous letter accusing Kavanaugh of gang rape. Kavanaugh called the claim a "crock, farce, wrong."
The woman who later (falsely) identified herself as the author later admitted she "only claimed authorship 'as a way to grab attention.'"😲
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PolitiFact faulted Harris for falsely claiming that Kavanaugh had referred to popular contraceptive methods as "abortion-inducing." Harris' video clip falsely attributed to Kavanaugh a position taken by Priests for Life.
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In a particularly notorious exchange, Harris cornered Kavanaugh, asking him if he had discussed the Trump-Russia probe with anyone at a specific law firm.
@BasedMikeLee had the perfect response, noting it was absurd to suggest Kavanaugh knew every lawyer at the firm.
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Presidents appoint more than 3K people, but the federal government has 2.3M employees, most in ostensibly nonpolitical roles. Goldstein is a "burrower," a political appointee who later took a "nonpolitical" position.
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This is the latest in a series of reporting about burrowers. Read the opening article here⬇️
The Senate refused to re-confirm Jeffrey Baran for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission in 2023, but taxpayers ended up on the hook, anyway.
How?🤔
Here's the story.
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President Biden re-nominated Baran, who had served on the Nuclear Regulatory Commission since 2014, but a pro-nuclear group raised serious concerns about Baran's opposition to policies that enabled nuclear energy.
His renomination bid failed in the Senate.
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No matter. He'd just "burrow in," taking an ostensibly "nonpolitical" role in the federal bureaucracy.
He joined the Department of Energy as deputy asst. sec. for waste & minerals management. Got a pay bump, too.
The SPLC admitted having an account in a foreign country, the Cayman Islands.
The SPLC also listed $30M in offshore accounts in "Central America and the Caribbean."
This may actually be a decrease from $92.6M in "non-U.S. equities" SPLC reported in 2017.👀
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"It's very odd and frankly raises suspicion that a nonprofit organization would have accounts in places like the Cayman Islands, or as they reported $30 million in Central America," @libertycounsel's @MatStaver told me.
SPLC puts mainstream conservative & Christian groups on the "hate map" alongside Klan chapters, claiming it's the "infrastructure upholding white supremacy."
My book, "Making Hate Pay" explains how SPLC uses this to demonize opponents & raise 💰
In 2010, the SPLC added conservative Christian groups to the "hate map," branding them "anti-LGBT hate groups." At the time, SPLC intentionally did not put @FocusFamily on the hate map.
In 2012, an LGBT activist targeted @FRCdc for a mass shooting, using the map.
What if I told you a top advisor for Adam Schiff during Russiagate and the first Trump impeachment "burrowed in" to the federal bureaucracy and apparently is still there?😲
If anyone seems likely to oppose the Trump admin from within, it's him.
According to his verified LinkedIn profile, he serves as an associate administrator for security and hazardous materials safety at the FAA.
President Biden brought him in as a political appointee, but he switched to a "career" job in September.
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So what if some FAA safety staffer once worked for Schiff? Why should I care?
It's called "burrowing in." Presidents appoint 3K people for "political" positions, but most of the 2.3M federal workers are in non-political "career" roles.
The Southern Poverty Law Center, which trades on its history bankrupting the KKK to smear conservatives as secret supporters of "white supremacy," has put the largest conservative youth org—@TPUSA—on the "hate map" with Klan chapters.
Every year, the SPLC puts out a new version of the "hate map," partly to scare donors into ponying up cash and partly to "cancel" its opponents—cutting them off from polite society.
This year, the "hate map" includes Turning Point USA.
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The SPLC accuses Turning Point and its founder, @charliekirk11, of propping up "white Christian supremacy."
Now, if Charlie Kirk were racist & theocratic, would Turning Point have a presence on more than 3K campuses?🤔