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Mark Paoletta
@MarkPaoletta
Sr Fellow @AmRenewCtr I Trump OMB GC I Fr. Chief Oversight Counsel, Congress I WH Lawyer Bush 41 I Co-Editor, Created Equal: Clarence Thomas in His Own Words
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Nov 20 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
🧵The Impoundment Control Act was a massive power grab by Congress during Watergate scandal, unconstitutionally infringing on President’s executive authority. It’s also a stupid law – it makes it ILLEGAL to spend less than the full amount appropriated – even if you can get the job done for less. For example, if Congress appropriates $100 million to build a tank, and President can do it for $75 million, it's illegal to not spend the remaining $25 million. That’s insane.

Before the ICA, Presidents routinely impounded funds for policy, national security and efficiency reasons. It’s time for the President to reassert this power.

Below are two papers – first one on President’s constitutional basis to impound and second one on long history of impoundments going back to our Founding. And then some op-eds making the same points.

Impound Baby Impound! @elonmusk @VivekGRamaswamy @RussVought45 @amrenewctr

americarenewing.com/the-history-of… 2/ americarenewing.com/the-presidents…
Nov 20 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
🧵Presidents have impounded funds that Congress appropriated with mandatory spending language.

In fact, in 1896, Attorney General Harmon issued opinion concluding Presidents don’t have to spend all funds, even if appropriation contains mandatory language. (highlighted below from CRA paper on history of impoundments, linked below in this thread).

Many Presidents going back to Founding and especially in 20th C. (FDR, Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy and Johnson) impounded significant funds. It’s time for the President to reassert this authority to help stop the spending madness.

Please read our two papers on 1) history of impoundments and 2) President’s constitutional authority to impound, both papers linked below and some op-eds.

Impound, Baby, Impound! @elonmusk @VivekGRamaswamy @RussVought45Image 2/ Here’s @amrenewctr paper that I co-authored on long history of impoundments, with lots of examples. This was a well-established practice.
americarenewing.com/the-history-of…
Nov 10 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
🧵This is rich coming from @RepJeffries, who compared Justice Clarence Thomas, General Colin Powell and Professor Shelby Steele to “House Negroes.”

Jeffries has never disowned these racist comments.

Jeffries also praised views of raging antisemitic Uncle, Leonard Jeffries, as “factual information, proven through scholarly documents and texts.” And then lied about it.

@RepJeffries, I would sit this one out.Image 2/ washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/137211…
Oct 17 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
🧵Outrageous but not surprising. President Trump 47 should impound all funds to UNRWA & other international organizations when he makes finding they threaten or harm America's national security interests. Here’s my paper on POTUS impoundment authority.
americarenewing.com/the-presidents… x.com/DrEliDavid/sta… 2/ There is long history of Presidents impounding funds based on national security. americarenewing.com/the-history-of…
Oct 14 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
🧵Ignoring? Anita Hill testified & Americans believed Clarence Thomas 58%-24%; only 26% of women believed Hill. Even @JoeBiden, who chaired hearing, believed Thomas. Biden called Justice Thomas night he was confirmed to congratulate him & tell Thomas he was "person of character.” 2/@SenWhitehouse, Anita Hill has always been a partisan hack. Here’s a clip of Hill defending Bill Clinton on @MeetThePress, saying she will support Clinton despite his sexually harassing and assaulting women because he is good on the issues, namely of course abortion rights.
Oct 11 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
🧵33 yrs ago TODAY, Justice Clarence Thomas calls out Democrats for running a “high tech lynching” because Thomas dared to have “different ideas.” This is as true today as Obama despicably tries to shame black men for daring to vote for @realDonaldTrump. 2/When those hearings were, American people believed Thomas 58%-24% w/ only 26% of women believing Anita Hill. Justice Thomas has never backed down in face of these lies & smears, which continue today. Here’s trailer for Created Equal: Clarence Thomas in His Own Words.
Sep 5 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
🧵If you are a liberal Justice, the ethics double standard is alive and thriving.

Justice Jackson claims “I follow the rules,” but she failed to disclose husband’s medical malpractice consulting fees on her forms for a decade & then when she admitted in 2022 she hadn’t properly disclosed income, she never fixed her forms. Why isn’t she asked about this?

We know nothing about who paid her husband hundreds of thousands or millions in consulting fees in medical malpractice cases for past decade while she has been serving as a judge. She disclosed his consulting clients in 2012 but never again. Why isn’t she asked about this? Why isn’t legacy media interested in this? 2/ Here’s Jackson’s filing where she admits she failed to disclose husband’s consulting income but doesn’t identify years nor correct previous forms. What companies/law firms paid her husband, how much & did they have any business before her as a judge?
Aug 6 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
🧵Gaslighting cont'd: Justice Thomas visits friends at their homes & is smeared but @JoeBidenuses billionaire donors’ mansions for family vacations & never paid nor reported them: 3X at $20M Kiawah mansion, 6X in St. Croix, 2x in $35M Nantucket mansion.

2/Justice Thomas attends Nebraska football game, sits in box w/ friends w/ tix price listed at $65 (below reporting limit) but media attacks Thomas on ethics. Jill Biden sits in luxury box at Super Bowl, @JoeBiden doesn’t disclose & crickets from gaslighting Dems & media allies. Image
Aug 5 • 7 tweets • 4 min read
🧵Justice Thomas wasn’t required to disclose trips under “personal hospitality” exemption in law & rules. Judicial Conference 2012 letter to Congress confirmed this & it’s consistent with advice given by ethics counsel to Judge Ray Randolph in 2006, as reflected in his notes.

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Image 2/ @nytimes dishonestly reports today Justice Thomas “failed to publicly disclose” trips. Media outlets falsely framed this way, esp. @ProPublica who wrote 1st story but failed to mention Conference 2012 ruling to their everlasting shame.
wsj.com/articles/propu…
Jul 29 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
.@JoeBiden wants to destroy an independent Supreme Court. Left is furious they no longer control Court. They want Court to be rubber stamp on efforts to take away our liberties & their efforts to destroy President Trump. Americans must defend Court from this dangerous assault. Biden has been malignant force on Court for 30+ yrs, creator of modern assault on Supreme Court nominees, first smearing Robert Bork in 1987 (after Biden first said he would support Bork but then smeared him to rehab himself w/ the Left after being exposed for plagiarizing).
Jul 9 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
.@SenWhitehouse is a disgrace. His tactics to bully Justice Thomas have failed. As he has for past 33 yrs, Thomas is reshaping American jurisprudence faithful to Constitution. Whitehouse is lashing out because there’s nothing he can do about it. Thomas triggers the Left. #GOAT Whitehouse wants to create diversion from his own & fellow Dems lying to American people about state of Joe Biden’s utter incapacitation. They're desperate. Get ready for total blowout in November elections & then Whitehouse/fellow Dems will be in minority under President Trump.
Jun 19 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
.@realDonaldTrump is 100% correct – VP Biden was very involved w Hunter business deals. My client Jason Galanis provided draft email that Joe Biden was interested in joining board of Chinese Fund, Harvest, after 2016 as part of plan to help Hunter form partnership w/ Harvest. Image Galanis testified “certain relation of mine” mentioned in draft email was VP Biden. Archer confirmed this to Galanis at time. Timeline of golf outing conversation mentioned in draft email matches timing of golf outing photo w Bidens and Archer - Aug 2014 Image
Jun 18 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Justice Jackson failed to disclose husband’s medical malpractice consulting fees for years. She knew she was required to as she disclosed his fees in first report in 2012. Then she failed to disclose these fees for a decade, as she admitted in 2022 filing. Paging @SenWhitehouse.
Image Jackson’s amended 2020 report filed in 2022 when nominated to Supreme Court says “some of my previously filed reports inadvertently omitted. . consulting income that my spouse periodically receives from consulting on medical malpractice cases.” Which years?? Image
May 22 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
1/@POTUS Biden invoked Exec Privilege over audiotape of Hur interview, claiming transcript provides necessary information. Biden has long history of secretly excising embarrassing comments from official transcripts, as demonstrated in clip below from 1991 Thomas-Hill hearings. 2/Biden excised this sentence from transcript: “Now, in groping to trying to figure out how we got to where we are in terms of this discrepancy. . .”  Given his well-known troubling conduct toward women, Biden team made sure this was not in transcript.
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May 22 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
1/My @WSJopinion on why Justice Alito has no reason to recuse from Trump cases - not required by law/ precedent. RBG unethically attacked Trump during '16 campaign & not releasing tax returns, & Left had no problem w/ her ruling on Trump tax returns case. wsj.com/articles/mrs-a… 2/ Liberal appeals court Judge Reinhardt didn't recuse from appeal in which wife’s ACLU chapter joined 2 briefs in district court case below. Left filed brief defending. Left’s attacks on Justices Alito & Thomas are about power, not ethics.
May 17 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
1/ Justice Alito has no reason to recuse in Jan 6 cases. His wife is allowed to have her own political views, even if they were about the 2020 election. The Left is inventing fake recusal standards. Total hypocrites. See below for examples. 2/ Liberal 9th Circuit Judge Reinhardt did not recuse from appeal of case on ban on same sex marriage in Calif, even though wife’s ACLU org joined 2 briefs in court below urging ban be struck down. Judge’s wife was outspoken ban should be struck down.
thefederalist.com/2022/10/10/no-…
Apr 29 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
1/Enjoyed discussing w/ @SteveBannon_1 @WarRoom why Constitution provides immunity for POTUS for official acts. How could Left argue otherwise? Because Left is so deluded they also were 100% certain Court would disqualify @realDonaldTrump under 14th A. rumble.com/v4rqlat-mark-p… 2/Court rejected this ridiculous 14 A. argument by a vote of 9-0. There were ZERO votes for this baseless, lawless, partisan argument. The Left lives in a bubble. They better be ready for another dose of reality - POTUS has immunity from criminal prosecutions for official acts.
Apr 13 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
1/Congrats to my friend Justice Clarence Thomas, who stands alone today as 10th longest serving Supreme Court Justice in our nation’s history - 32 years & 173 days, w/ 750(+) written opinions. He’s our greatest Justice & greatest living American. #GOAT Image 2/Justice Thomas was undaunted when the Left & Dems tried to destroy him w/ smears & lies during his confirmation hearings and has remained undaunted in face of constant despicable attacks since he joined the Court. #UNDAUNTED Image
Apr 1 • 14 tweets • 5 min read
1/Judge Jim Ho had zero reason to recuse in case w/ @ADFLegal acting as counsel b/c his wife previously was paid honoraria by ADL for speeches. Allyson Ho wasn’t involved in case & has no “interest” in it. The Left invents recusal standards to smear judges they don’t like. 2/ Allyson Ho is superstar lawyer who has argued 100(+) cases, including 5 at SCOTUS. She has given speeches at ADF and donated all honoraria paid to her by ADF to charities. She has done no legal work for ADF. There is no reason for Judge Ho to recuse.
Feb 27 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
1/In Congressional transcribed interview, Jason Galanis recounted being sexually assaulted & sexually harassed by correctional officer at Pensacola prison camp. @RepAndyBiggsAZ announced Committee would investigate. Democrat staff did not ask one Q about this terrible abuse. Image 2/ Jason Galanis also laid out evidence that SDNY retaliated against him when he sought home confinement under CARES Act. @RepAndyBiggsAZ also said Committee will investigate this retaliation.
Feb 7 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
1/ Media is all in w/ Democrats’ partisan lawfare agenda to force Justice Thomas to recuse in Trump-related cases. "The Democrats are inventing recusal standards in an effort to shrink the Court to have their preferred Justices decide cases," Mark Paoletta told Fox News Digital.

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Image 2/Democrats push baseless recusal arguments & "memory-hole” case where Left’s judicial ethics experts defended liberal judge who didn’t recuse from hearing appeal on same sex marriage ban even though his wife’s ACLU chapter joined briefs in district court.