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Eric Schmitt
@Eric_Schmitt
Husband • Dad • United States Senator for Missouri • Diehard #STLCards fan
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Oct 28 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
Today, I’m leading a Senate Judiciary hearing on one of the most dangerous forces in American life today: Violent left-wing extremism.

Over the past few years, this threat has spiraled into an all-out crisis. 🧵 For the past 15 months, political violence has been a constant fact of American life.

We've seen arsons and bombings, armed ambushes and assaults, sniper attacks and mass shootings, riots and violent mobs. We have seen assassinations. We have seen murder. We have seen death.
Oct 2 • 11 tweets • 4 min read
In one 18-month period in the early 1970s, there were 2,500 bombings on American soil—nearly 5 a day.

Did you know that? Many Americans don't.

These leftist terrorists who declared war on America went on to work at top law firms, nonprofits, and Ivy League universities. 🧵 The left-wing violence of the 1970s was horrific.

The most infamous extremist group was the Weather Underground—which issued a "Declaration of War" against the U.S. government in 1970.

They bombed the Pentagon. They bombed the State Department. They bombed the U.S. Capitol. Image
Jul 26 • 12 tweets • 4 min read
. @DNIGabbard has released new, declassified documents revealing that in its final days the Obama Administration plotted to hamper the incoming Trump Administration with a phony Russia collusion narrative.

Here are three verifiable takeaways from the new documents. 🧵 Image 1. The Steele Dossier played a role in the January 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA) of Russian interference in the 2016 election.

Multiple senior CIA officers argued against its inclusion because
"it failed to meet basic tradecraft standards."
Jul 21 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
How is this not a scandal?

The president of Mexico is openly trying to help her fellow countrymen in America avoid our new remittance tax.

Ironically, this is precisely WHY we need to crack down on remittances.

My bill—the REMIT Act—will do just that. (1/7) Image Mexico depends on U.S. remittances. That's why their president is trying to give Mexican nationals in the U.S. guidance on how to maximize the flow of U.S. dollars into Mexico.

Their economy is inextricably tied to this cash flow. Without our economy, theirs would crumble. (2/7)
Jul 11 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
For too long, the Right played defense while the Left weaponized our legal system.

It's time to fight to win.

THE LAST LINE OF DEFENSE is the inside story of how we beat the Left in court before—and how we can do it again.

Available for preorder now. 🧵
bit.ly/TheLastLineOfD…Image Under Biden, the Left used the executive branch to build a powerful lawfare machine.

Trump won. But the Left's lawfare continues. Activist groups and far-left judges are wielding our courts like a political weapon, twisting the law to undermine the will of the American people.
Jul 9 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
HUGE free speech win today.

In 2016, @DougMackeyCase posted this meme telling Clinton supporters to "vote from home."

The Biden DOJ charged him with election interference—and tried to jail him for sharing a joke online.

But the Second Court just threw out his conviction. 🧵 Image The backstory: On January 27, 2021—just a few days after taking office—the Biden DOJ charged Mackey with conspiracy to “injure, oppress, threaten and intimidate persons in the free exercise and enjoyment of...the right to vote.”

For sharing a political meme on social media. Image
Jul 8 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
🚨HUGE victory today in the fight against the unaccountable Administrative State.

The Supreme Court just put an end to yet another lawless order by a single rogue district judge that prevented the Trump Administration from downsizing our bloated bureaucracy. 🧵 Image This is a big win for the President's ability to direct the affairs of the executive branch. Personnel is policy. If the President can't remove bureaucrats, he isn't in charge.
Jul 4 • 18 tweets • 9 min read
America is the greatest country in the world.

This a nation of settlers, explorers and pioneers. Our ancestors settled a frontier, built skyscrapers and split atoms, and planted our flag on the moon.

Missouri has been at the heart of it all — every step of the way. 🧵 Image In 1799, an old man packed up his things and left Kentucky for the wild frontier.

His name was Daniel Boone. He was 65 years old.

Kentucky had gotten "too crowded," he said. "I want more elbow room."

So he headed west: to the Spanish-controlled territory of Missouri. Image
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Jun 27 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
🚨 The Supreme Court just delivered a HUGE win on birthright citizenship.

But it's even bigger than that. They also reaffirmed that rogue district judges can't issue nationwide injunctions to stop President Trump from carrying out his agenda.

This is a big, big deal. 🧵 Image This case wasn’t just about just about birthright citizenship—it was about the proper role of the courts in our political system.

I called this after oral arguments took place for the case last month: "Trump could be on the cusp of a big win."
Jun 25 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
The entire Democratic Party is lining up behind an anti-American open borders socialist who wants to tear down the country that welcomed him and his family.

Don't look away.

This is who they are. 🧵 Image Zohran Mamdani just won the Democratic primary for mayor of New York City. He wants to:

• End cooperation with ICE
• End deportations of criminals
• Abolish prisons
• Defund the police
• Decriminalize all drugs
• Have taxpayer-funded sex changes for kids

...and much more.
Jun 12 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
King George Soros is bankrolling "No Kings Day"—a national day of riots—on June 14th through one of his leftist NGOs.

Soros financed the mass migration crisis. Now he's mobilizing his army of illegal aliens and far-left activists to try to stop President Trump from ending it. 🧵 Image
Image The Left wants to nationalize the riots in Los Angeles. On June 14th—the 250th birthday of the U.S. Army—they're planning to organize 1,500 "No Kings Day" protests across the country.

They call it a "nationwide day of defiance." Image
May 27 • 12 tweets • 4 min read
This is how it always works.

The Right wins elections, and the Left pretends to magically rediscover the Constitution, the rule of law and free speech.

Don't fall for it. 🧵 Image Last week, 60 Minutes' Scott Pelley gave a dramatic commencement speech warning that "our sacred rule of law is under attack. Journalism is under attack. Universities are under attack. Freedom of speech is under attack."

We've heard these lines a million times before. Image
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May 17 • 11 tweets • 4 min read
The Hur audio makes unavoidable what free thinking Americans had known—for most (all) of his four years, Joe Biden was mentally incapable of serving as President.

It's why I was the first Senator to call for the 25th Amend.

The deeper question—who was running our country? 🧵 Axios finally published the long-sought-after audio from Special Counsel Robert Hur's 2023 interview of President Biden regarding Biden's classified documents found near his Corvette.

Its content was exactly what we all expected.

May 15 • 10 tweets • 4 min read
🚨 SCOTUS just heard arguments on President Trump's birthright citizenship order.

This case is big. It isn't just about birthright citizenship—it's about the limits of how rogue judges can use nationwide injunctions.

My prediction: Trump could be on the cusp of a big win. 🧵 Image Solicitor General John Sauer (who was my Solicitor General back in my AG days) argued for President Trump. Right out of the gate, multiple liberal justices were swinging for his head, but they could never land the critical blow on Teflon John.
May 10 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
Illegals who broke our laws to enter the US aren’t due the same process as citizens.

SCOTUS and the Constitution agree: illegals' rights are limited, especially in deportation.

President Trump will deport millions of illegals without a hearing. Here's how. 🧵 Image In 1996, back Congress passed the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act, which created "expedited removal" for certain classes of illegal aliens who had been in the country less than two years. Image
May 7 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
And there it is: Proof that the FBI covered up the political motive behind the 2017 congressional baseball shooting.

The shooter was a left-wing extremist who explicitly set out to kill GOP congressmen. The FBI knew this. But they told the public it was just “suicide by cop.” 🧵 Image This stuff isn't "incompetence." It's specific, intentional ideological corruption. The FBI—like so many other institutions in American life—has become a vehicle for manipulating and shaping public narratives to serve left-wing interests.

And the media is eager to help: Image
Apr 29 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
Amazon spent decades profiting off of America Last trade policies.

First, they tried to attack President Trump's trade policies with this silly stunt. Then, they got hit for it. Now they're trying to back-pedal.

But it's too late. 🧵 Image Amazon refuses to tell its users where most of their products are made—or if (and when) they’re made in foreign sweatshops. I bet you can guess why.

But NOW, you see, they're all about "transparency"!

That's really what they want us to believe?
Apr 25 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
It's impossible to overstate how absurd this is.

You can't serve in the military if you have asthma.

But because of two federal judges, we have to bend over backwards to accommodate a "condition" that requires lifelong hormones and multiple surgeries?

We need to fight this. 🧵 Image At the outset of his administration, President Trump signed a common-sense executive order barring transgender military service. In February, the Pentagon issued a memo affirming that people with a history of gender dysphoria are "incompatible" with U.S. military service. Image
Apr 24 • 11 tweets • 3 min read
The Supreme Court just heard arguments in Mahmoud v. Taylor—a case about whether public schools can force kids to learn radical transgender ideology, even over parents' religious objections.

The Justices are likely to deal a blow to this woke ideology.

Here's what happened. 🧵 In 2022, the Montgomery County public school system introduced a series of "LGBTQ-inclusive" storybooks to be taught in pre-K to 5th grade.

When hundreds of parents raised religious objections, school bureaucrats eliminated parental notice and the ability to opt-out.
Apr 22 • 12 tweets • 3 min read
The Supreme Court bypassed normal appellate procedure to halt President Trump's deportation of more illegal aliens.

There a lot of misinformation floating around about judicial rulings, the Alien Enemies Act, and immigration law.

Let's clear a few things up.🧵 On Apr. 7, SCOTUS held: 1. Judge Boasberg had no jurisdiction over the Tren de Aragua deportations under the Alien Enemies Act; 2. Those TdA thugs must seek relief under "habeas" where they are confined (Texas).

This takes the AEA cases from DC to TX.
Apr 17 • 14 tweets • 5 min read
Until yesterday, the Biden Administration's "Plan for Countering Domestic Terrorism" was classified.

Now, thanks to @DNIGabbard, it's public.

It's a roadmap for left-wing ideological warfare. 🧵 Image In June 2021, the Biden admin released its public strategy for "countering domestic terrorism."

In a lawsuit, @America1stLegal discovered that there was a separate, classified version of that plan.

But the private version wasn't public—until now.