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Oct 21 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Trump has rejected interviews w/US media like 60 Minutes but eagerly appears on Saudi state-owned propaganda TV. Our January report exposed that the Saudi Royal Family paid Trump businesses at least $615K during his term in office & the money ties have since grown into billions.
🔗: huffpost.com/entry/trump-sa…
Oct 18 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
🚨BREAKING: RM @RepRaskin / @OversightDems release a new report exposing how Donald Trump violated the Constitution by fleecing U.S. taxpayers with unlawful and exorbitant hotel charges that lined his pockets.
READ THE REPORT: oversightdemocrats.house.gov/sites/evo-subs…
Records obtained by @OversightDems for an 11-month period for just ONE of Trump’s 500+ businesses show nonstop taxpayer rip-offs.
The Constitution forbids the President to take any payments from the government other than salary; Trump took hundreds.
Mar 12 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Chairman @RepJamesComer is withholding from the public EVERY TRANSCRIPT from Committee interviews in his probe into Biden's classified docs, including then-VP Biden's assistant Kathy Chung and NARA's General Counsel Gary Stern.
NEW: In a letter to @Trump, RM @RepRaskin thanked the org for confirming our factual finding that Donald Trump accepted at least $7.8 million from foreign governments while President without Congress's consent. oversightdemocrats.house.gov/sites/democrat…
In his letter, RM @RepRaskin explained that Trump's "donation" of purported "profits" from foreign states' payments at certain hotels while he pocketed MILLIONS from office rentals and other businesses did not comply with the Constitution.
Jan 4 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
BREAKING: RM @RepRaskin and @OversightDems released a report showing former President Trump pocketed at least $7.8 million from 20 foreign states while in office, violating the Constitution and selling out U.S. foreign policy. oversightdemocrats.house.gov/news/press-rel…
The limited records obtained by @OversightDems for just 4 of the 500+ businesses Trump owned while he was President reveal they collected payments from these foreign governments:
Nov 1, 2023 • 9 tweets • 4 min read
Every single witness Chairman Comer has brought in has explained Joe Biden was not involved in his family’s business ventures. But Republicans keep peddling deceptive claims to try to revive their old debunked narrative.
As CNN asks: "So why, given the matching amounts and the 'loan repayment' text on the check, does Comer not 'believe' that Joe Biden ever made the loan?"
🧵NEW: @RepRaskin sent a letter to the Chairman highlighting @RepJamesComer’s TOP TEN DECEPTIONS AND FALSEHOODS in his faltering investigation of President Biden. oversightdemocrats.house.gov/sites/democrat…
Here they are:
🧵BREAKING: RM @RepRaskin released a fact sheet on the 14,000 pages of bank records obtained by Republicans which continue to show no wrongdoing by President Biden. oversightdemocrats.house.gov/news/press-rel…
These additional bank records debunk (again) the false claim that President Biden was profiting from his family’s business ventures.
Instead, they show President Biden was the one actually helping family members in times of need.
Sep 13, 2023 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
🧵The "evidence" Republicans are using to justify their impeachment inquiry actually disproves all their claims:
The President received NO MONEY from his family members' businesses.
Sep 12, 2023 • 13 tweets • 2 min read
🚨 NEW: RM @RepRaskin released the following statement on the House Republicans’ illegitimate impeachment inquiry: oversightdemocrats.house.gov/news/press-rel…
“The evidence shows no wrongdoing by President Biden, but the GOP is obviously forced to launch an impeachment inquiry regardless of the facts.
Jul 31, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Devon Archer confirmed, to his knowledge, President Biden:
➡️Never spoke about Hunter's business dealings on the phone
➡️Never took official actions as VP in relation to Hunter's business matters
➡️Was never involved in his son's business dealings
Devon Archer also debunked the Form FD-1023 Republicans released last week and the allegation that President Biden received a bribe from Burisma. He confirmed there was no evidence of corruption, wrongdoing, or impropriety on the part of President Biden.
Jun 10, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
🧵In 2020, a sitting Republican Senator confirmed that AG Barr had begun an assessment—headed by U.S. Attorney Brady—to investigate the corruption allegations pushed by Giuliani.
Mr. Brady took ‘aggressive steps’ to investigate Giuliani’s allegations and the repeated conspiracy in the tipsheet. nytimes.com/2020/12/11/us/…
May 12, 2023 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
Since launching their whimsical "investigation" into the Biden family, Republicans have failed to find any evidence of wrongdoing by President Biden.
📰 In case you missed their embarrassing press conference, the headlines say it all:
May 10, 2023 • 10 tweets • 4 min read
NEW: RM @RepRaskin released the following statement after @GOPoversight failed to show any evidence of wrongdoing by President Biden. oversightdemocrats.house.gov/news/press-rel…
Lacking evidence to back up their allegations, Committee Republicans have used old conspiracy theories, cherry-picked bank records, and mischaracterized SARs to attack President Biden and his family.
Nov 14, 2022 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
🧵BREAKING: Today, Chair @RepMaloney released new documents obtained from Trump’s former accounting firm showing how foreign governments spent hundreds of thousands at the Trump Hotel while seeking to sway U.S. foreign policy during his presidency.
bit.ly/3UEJ4PU
Countries including Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, U.A.E, Turkey, and China all spent tens, if not hundreds, of thousands of dollars at the Trump Hotel in Washington D.C. during sensitive times for their country’s relations with the U.S.
Details below⬇️
Nov 5, 2022 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
🧵Here are some key findings from the analysis released by Subcom Chair @CongressmanRaja on what’s driving inflation:
Certain industries are using the cover of inflation to raise prices excessively, resulting in record profits and profit margins.
Statements from several sectors confirm that certain corporations are seeking record profits:
“We’ll take as much pricing as we think the consumer can absorb.” — Constellation Brands 1/6/2022
“[A] little bit of inflation is always good in our business.” — Kroger 6/18/2021
Sep 1, 2022 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
BREAKING: Chair @RepMaloney issued the following statement after @OversightDems reached an agreement with former President Trump and Mazars USA to turn over the former president's financial records to the Committee:
“After numerous court victories, I am pleased that my Committee has now reached an agreement to obtain key financial documents that former President Trump fought for years to hide from Congress.
“I am deeply troubled by the flood of new revelations about Inspector General Cuffari’s flagrant mishandling of the investigation into missing text messages related to the January 6th attack on our Capitol."
“First, we learned that he failed to inform my Committee and others in Congress for months that Secret Service messages had been erased."
Jul 29, 2022 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
NEW: Chair @RepMaloney issued the following statement after the U.S. House of Representatives passed the #AssaultWeapons Ban of 2021: oversight.house.gov/news/press-rel…
Gun violence is a uniquely American problem, and the overwhelming majority of Americans support common-sense gun reform.
This epidemic has ravaged our nation, and an #AssaultWeaponsBan is more critical than ever.
While @PhrMA wants you to think companies raise #drugprices to fund R&D, our investigation revealed that drug companies raise prices to:
💰 Turbocharge sales
💰 Keep their stock price growing
Here’s an internal company document admitting they raise prices to fuel “growth”:
Worse still, drug companies spend far more to reward shareholders than on innovative R&D.
(Read our staff report on buybacks and dividends here: bit.ly/3pGmkR)
Here is the money they make vs. what they spend on R&D for 7 drugs: