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Oct 27 9 tweets 3 min read
Tomorrow, I am holding a Senate Judiciary hearing on left wing political violence.

From assassinations to street violence and Antifa, the rise in leftist political violence must be vigorously opposed.

They not only threaten our lives, but our Constitutional Order. 🧵 Image Since 2024:

- Two different gunmen tried to kill President Trump.
- Charlie Kirk was murdered.
- Justice Kavanaugh 's would-be assassin was given a slap-on-the-wrist
- Luigi Mangioni murdered Brian Thompson
- Anti-ICE riots have wrecked cities.

And so much more.
Oct 18 10 tweets 3 min read
The "No Kings Day" protests are an incredible example of how astroturfed the Left is.

Nothing about this was "grassroots" or organic. It's funded by billionaires, promoted by million-dollar ad buys, and organized by some of the most powerful left-wing groups in America. 🧵 Last week, a new group called "Home of the Brave" dropped $1 million on a national media blitz to juice turnout at the protests, runnings ads in more than 185 local papers across 31 states. They took out full-page ads in the New York Times, Washington Post, and USA Today. Image
Oct 15 9 tweets 3 min read
The radicals of the 1960s failed to overthrow America by force — so they set out to capture it from within.

The Left's long march through the institutions was the defining political project of the last 50 years.

Now, the Right must take those institutions back for America. 🧵 Image
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In one 18-month period between 1971-72, there were 2,500 domestic bombings on U.S. soil—a stunning rate of nearly five per day.

For many Americans, that fact is shocking. In today’s popular imagination, the politics of the 60s and 70s were Woodstock, peace signs, and hippies.
Oct 11 14 tweets 5 min read
For years, media elites told us that "right-wing political violence" is America’s great domestic extremist threat.

Even today, they continue to cite the same handful of studies to "prove" that this is true.

But those "studies" are bunk.

I’m asking DOJ to fix this. 🧵 Image I just sent a letter to the Department of Justice urging them to conduct a serious, empirical study on the crisis of left-wing political violence.

Currently, no study of this sort exists.

The "data" we do have on political violence is laughably flawed, partisan junk science.
Oct 9 12 tweets 4 min read
Today, I sent a letter to Secretary of State Marco Rubio urging him to designate the international Antifa networks as Foreign Terrorist Organizations.

Antifa isn’t just a domestic threat.

It’s part of a global system of violent far-left extremists. 🧵 Image President Trump has made it clear that Antifa should be treated as the terrorist threat it is.

Yesterday, he reaffirmed his intent to dismantle the group's international network—and said he wanted to see it designated as an FTO.

"Let’s get it done."
Sep 25 9 tweets 3 min read
This is outrageous.

Some U.S. companies are using H-1B visas to staff their DEI offices.

I've reviewed numerous examples of hospitals, universities and other employers hiring foreign H-1B workers as DEI bureaucrats.

I'm urging USCIS to work with us to fix this. 🧵 Documents we reviewed show a range of U.S. employers have sought to hire foreign H-1B workers to fill their DEI positions.

For example, Yale New Haven Health filed Labor Condition Applications (LCA) for H-1B visas for the role of “Diversity and Inclusion Specialist” in 2021: Image
Sep 23 10 tweets 4 min read
This would be an incredible victory — if they follow through.

We'll be watching very closely.

This is a big deal. 🧵 In American politics today, stories, narratives, ideas, etc all take shape on the big social media platforms before making their way into the general public discourse.

Online censorship rigged the entire American political debate in the Left's favor.
Sep 18 9 tweets 3 min read
It just keeps getting worse.

This week, we learned that Joe Biden's FBI was actively targeting 92 conservative groups and individuals in a massive fishing expedition.

The list includes Charlie Kirk's organization, Turning Point USA. 🧵 The FBI's "Operation Arctic Frost" was launched in 2022, under the pretenses of investigating the Trump campaign and its conservative allies.

It was led by Tim Thibault—an FBI agent who was later forced to resign for his partisan corruption. Image
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Aug 28 11 tweets 4 min read
After President Trump fired her for cause (alleged mortgage fraud), former Fed Governor Cook is expected to sue.

This massive administrative state/separation of powers case will likely go to the Supreme Court.

Let's break down why President Trump is expected to win. 🧵 Image As the Supreme Court clarified a few months ago: the default rule is that Article II of the Constitution grants the President the authority to remove any federal official wielding executive power for any reason the President deems appropriate, including policy disagreements. Image
Aug 20 7 tweets 3 min read
The FBI just made a historic, largest-of-its-kind personnel investment to combat crime in St. Louis.

I worked with @FBIDirectorKash all year to secure this investment. It will put criminals in jail, deport illegals, and get drugs off the street.

Let's break it down.🧵 Image This isn't some temporary fix, it's a PERMANENT investment from the Trump Administration.

Staffing levels at the FBI in St. Louis will hit their highest point in years. More agents on the ground means more investigations, more arrests, and safer streets for Missouri families. Image
Aug 18 13 tweets 4 min read
Led by liberal judges, a federal court just undermined one of Congress's most powerful tools to rein in the Administrative State.

The court's decision allows unelected bureaucrats in DC to impose rules that Congress and the President expressly rejected.

Let me explain. 🧵 Image Under the Congressional Review Act, Congress can vote to repeal a regulation issued by an administrative agency.

If the President signs that resolution, then the regulation is repealed and the agency cannot create a "substantially similar" regulation.
Aug 13 9 tweets 3 min read
A huge court win today for constitutional sanity.

HELD: The President controls our foreign aid disbursements. Multinational NGOs can’t sue for a right to billions of taxpayer dollars—only the Comptroller General can under the Impoundment Control Act.

Here’s what happened. 🧵 Image Right after taking office, President Trump issued EO 14,169 freezing ~$10B in foreign aid.

NGOs like Global Health Council freaked out because their gravy train was coming to an end. They sued, arguing the President did not have the authority to stop the flow of funds.
Aug 8 11 tweets 4 min read
🚨A massive win for President Trump against rogue judges.

Chief Judge Boasberg was brazenly trying to punish the President for a dispute over an order the Supreme Court later said he had not power to issue in the first place.

The D.C. Circuit just shut him down. 🧵 Image This fight dates back to March 15, when the President invoked the Alien Enemies Act to fast-track the deportation of dangerous Venezuelan gang members and cartel affiliates from our country.
Jul 31 9 tweets 3 min read
🚨The newly released appendix to the Durham Report reveals that the Clinton campaign colluded with George Soros's Open Society Foundation to cook up the Trump-Russia hoax and possibly induce an FBI investigation.

This is huge. We have the paper trail. 🧵
On July 25, 2016, right before the DNC, an email from Leonard Benardo—a VP at Soros's Open Society Foundation and close associate of the Clinton campaign—shows that Clinton and her staffers plotted "a long-term affair to demonize Putin and Trump."
Jul 30 5 tweets 2 min read
Today, I addressed DOJ's excellent decision to file a judicial misconduct complaint against Judge Boasberg for lacking impartiality.

Judges aren't politicians in robes—they're judges.

President Trump's judicial nominees clearly understand that and proved it in their hearing. 🧵 This week, the DOJ filed a misconduct complaint against Judge Boasberg for his improper political conduct at a Judicial Conference meeting in the earlier this year.
Jul 28 12 tweets 4 min read
Rogue Judge Boasberg may "discipline" DOJ for not turning around planes full of terrorists and gangbangers headed to El Salvador.

Boasberg was just exposed for being biased against Trump last week.

I have new receipts that show he has been a partisan since his confirmation.🧵 Image This revelation fits a long-running pattern of Judge Boasberg's open bias against President Trump.

Earlier in July, a memo revealed that Judge Boasberg and other DC judges were prejudicially speculating about how the Trump administration might respond to an adverse ruling. Image
Jul 25 8 tweets 3 min read
In April, Senate Democrats wrote me a letter requesting an oversight hearing on the DOJ's Civil Rights Division. On Wednesday, they got their wish when I chaired a Senate judiciary hearing where @HarmeetKDhillon testified on "Ending Illegal DEI Discrimination & Preferences" 🧵 Image
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Their letter argued that Harmeet Dhillon is "fundamentally transform[ing]" the Civil Rights Division. I agree. Harmeet Dhillon is fundamentally transforming the DOJ Civil Rights Division, and that's exactly what our country needs. Image
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Jul 22 12 tweets 3 min read
Tomorrow, I'm leading a hearing on how we can forcibly dismantle the DEI regime.

For too long, our civil rights bureaucracy has aided and abetted discrimination.

It's time for lawbreakers to pay the price.

I'll be calling @HarmeetKDhillon and @GeneHamiltonUSA to testify. 🧵 Here's a hard but necessary truth:

For decades, our civil rights laws have been used not to prevent discrimination, but to enforce it.

Rather than protecting the equal rights of all citizens, the civil rights bureaucracy has become the enforcement arm of a new caste system.
Jul 17 8 tweets 2 min read
🚨 Today, we are voting Emil Bove out of committee. President Trump nominated Emil Bove to serve on the Third Circuit to check rogue left-wing activists who pervert our rule-of-law.

My Op-Ep in @DC_Reporter lays out my support of Bove. He is a lawman, through and through. 🧵 Image As a federal prosecutor, he prosecuted the most dangerous criminal conspiracies in the world, including Nicolás Maduro, the socialist dictator of Venezuela, and drug traffickers involved with the notorious “El Chapo.”
Jul 14 5 tweets 2 min read
Joe Biden claims he personally approved every pardon.

But, after his signoff, his staff quietly added violent criminals to the list and ran them through the autopen without telling him.

The autopen scandal just got blown wide open—again.🧵 Image Here's what happened:

Biden didn't individually approve pardons. Rather, he signed off on criteria to be used in finding violent inmates he wanted to pardon or offer clemency.

Biden's staff then changed the final list and ran it through the autopen.
Jul 8 15 tweets 3 min read
Yesterday, another rogue judge tried to undermine the will of the people.

Judge Indira Talwani issued a TRO enjoining portions of the OBBB that defund Planned Parenthood.

Worse, she lied to the Judiciary Committee about how she would rule as a judge. I have the receipts. 🧵 Image First, Talwani said the most important attribute for a judge is a "deep and sincere" "fairness." Yet, in this case, she unambiguously undermined the integrity of her decision by issuing an unreasoned TRO (an emergency order halting action pending a hearing). Image