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Aug 24 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
When Tim Walz launched his ‘06 campaign, he boasted in his biography that he’d been named “Outstanding Young Nebraskan by the Nebraska Chamber of Commerce.” That wasn’t true and the then president of the Nebraska chamber sent him a letter - freebeacon.com/democrats/for-…
The letter asked him to remove the reference and noted the Chamber had endorsed Walz’s GOP opponent, Gil Gutknecht -
Apr 18 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
The Conservative Partnership Institute, home of Mark Meadows and Jim DeMint, left exposed and vulnerable every resume updated to its job bank for the past several months. Info included social security numbers, identities of TS/SCI clearance holders, cell numbers/addresses and more - freebeacon.com/issues/hundred…
The @FreeBeacon reached out to them this morning to let them know we planned to do a story but wanted to ensure all the information was removed beforehand. We got a call from a PR rep who challenged the assertion and hung up on us. The information was removed shortly thereafter.
Jan 2 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Exclusive @FreeBeacon: Claudine Gay hit with six new charges of plagiarism. Harvard did not respond to a request for comment. The allegations extend into an eighth of Gay's 17 published works - freebeacon.com/campus/harvard…
Gay's first two footnotes in this pieces are also cribbed verbatim from Canon's endnotes -
May 7, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
"Goodwill Sold a Bust for $34.99. It’s an Ancient Roman Relic" - nytimes.com/2022/05/06/us/…
The quotes in this are so amazing: "She had named it 'Dennis Reynolds,' after a character from the comedy series 'It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia.'"
Feb 9, 2021 • 5 tweets • 5 min read
Breaking: Read @aaronsibarium on the private Facebook group where @nytimes reporters are having it out over Donald McNeil's resignation, via @FreeBeacon - freebeacon.com/issues/inside-…@aaronsibarium@nytimes@FreeBeacon "The Washington Free Beacon reviewed a series of postings to a Facebook group for current and former Times staffers, where a tense debate is unfolding over McNeil's exit...."
Feb 12, 2020 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
Where's Hunter? Until Recently, On the Board of the Left's Premier National Security Network. Nobody — literally nobody — would respond to requests for comment - freebeacon.com/politics/where…
The Truman National Security Project's current president and CEO, Jenna Ben-Yehuda, whose contact information is not publicly listed on the organization's website, did not respond to a request via Twitter for an appropriate point of contact for media inquiries.
Aug 14, 2019 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Trump aides have been careful speaking about Hong Kong because of a 6/18 phone call between Trump and Xi when made an ad hoc commitment to Xi that he would not condemn the Chinese government over a crackdown in Hong Kong - w/ @nahaltoosi@morningmoneybenpolitico.com/story/2019/08/…
A version of this conversation was reported by the @FT here - google.com/amp/s/amp.ft.c…. Their reporting says Trump made the concession in order to revive trade talks. *OURS INDICATES HE MADE IT WITHOUT EXPLICIT LINKAGE TO TRADE*
May 21, 2018 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
President Trump uses a cell phone equipped w camera and microphone, which make him susceptible to hackers 1/several - politico.com/story/2018/05/…
POTUS carries at least two iPhones, one that can only make calls, one that is equipped only w the Twitter app and a few pre-loaded news sites. The former has a camera and mic on it. The latter does not. 2/ several.