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Apr 1 • 5 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
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President Trump is right to strongly consider leaving NATO.
I support the President’s constitutional authority under Article II to withdraw from any treaty — including NATO — without needing Senate approval. Congress tried to block that with the 2023 Kaine-Rubio provision in the NDAA, but the Constitution grants the executive power to the president.
thehill.com/homenews/admin…
Treaty making is an executive power. The Constitution’s requirement that treaties may only be made with the consent of two-thirds of the Senate is a limitation on this inherent executive authority, the purpose of which is make it difficult to get enter into alliances.
nationalreview.com/news/senate-pa…
The Constitution’s silence on treaty withdrawal means that the president retains the executive authority to remove the United States from treaty obligations. The Founders were wise to make it be difficult to enter into treaty obligations and easy to withdraw from them once they were no longer in the national interest.
NATO’s Article 5 cannot obligate us to war. It requires only “such action as it deems necessary” consistent with each nation’s Constitution. Congress alone has the power to declare war — no alliance overrides that. The alliance is already too big from endless expansion. We need a real debate: Is this Cold War structure still useful to American interests, or has it become a one-way burden?
paul.senate.gov/op_eds/respons…
Trump is forcing the conversation on burden-sharing. Alliances should serve us — not entangle us indefinitely. Let’s have that honest discussion.

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1/ Before Tony’s diary, there was the prequel. I'm releasing Fauci's own 465-page historical record of events from 2001 to 2015 — his personal account of building the federal biodefense complex and the classified access that came with it.
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1/9 — My investigation uncovered that Anthony Fauci kept a diary.
What he wrote privately and what he told the country are two different stories.

Today I'm releasing his entries from December 2019 through December 2022. 🧵 Image
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1/ I asked for the truth about how COVID-19 origins research crossed U.S. borders. Here's what I found: undeclared coronavirus materials moving between American and Chinese labs as far back as 2018 — years before anyone had heard of COVID-19. 🧵
2/ April 2018: WIV scientist Zhengli Shi asked University of Minnesota virologist Fang Li to have a student carry SARS-related antibodies back to China. Li flagged the risk himself, citing "the current tension between USA and China," and suggested someone else ship them.
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1/ Dr. Ralph Baric sat for a transcribed interview with HSGAC staff. He's the scientist who designed the furin cleavage site work for the DEFUSE proposal. Today I'm releasing the transcript. Here's what he admitted. 🧵
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Behind closed doors, the scientists who authored the Proximal Origin paper privately questioned their own conclusions. Publicly, however, they shamed, attacked, and censored those who raised legitimate questions—all in the name of damage control.
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1/ NEW: I'm releasing Slack messages from the authors of "Proximal Origin," the paper used to shut down the lab-leak question in early 2020. Their private conversations tell a very different story than their public paper. 🧵
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