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1. Dems Try To Censor In Censorship Hearing
Congress hosted a House Weaponization of the Federal Government hearing today featuring testimony from Democratic Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and other public figures. Almost immediately, Democratic members on the committee motioned to effectively censor RFK, Jr. from speaking:
Debbie Wasserman Schultz Has Just Put a Motion Forward to Censor Robert F. Kennedy Jr from Further Testimony
This is wild… pic.twitter.com/buNN8NeKCj
— Chief Nerd (@TheChiefNerd) July 20, 2023
A vote ensued after Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) moved to table the motion, and another Republican, Rep. Mike Johnson (R-LA), made a point of order to ask, “Is it the custom of this committee to censor viewpoints that we disagree with from witnesses?”
By a 10-8 vote, the GOP majority’s motion to table succeeded, allowing the hearing to continue as planned. Here’s Rep. Massie:
That hearing led by Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) was, according to the Weaponization panel, convened to “examine the federal government’s role in censoring Americans, the Missouri v. Biden case, and Big Tech’s collusion with out-of-control government agencies to silence speech.”
The two other witnesses at the hearing were Breitbart News Politics Editor Emma-Jo Morris and D. John Sauer, special assistant attorney general at the Louisiana Department of Justice. Morris, then with the New York Post, broke the Hunter Biden laptop story, which was censored on social media under suspicion of being “Russian disinformation.” It has since been verified.
Emma Jo Morris:”I can’t even believe this is a conversation. This is not controversial or taboo. We live in the United States of America, and you have the right to say whatever you want, to print whatever you want, and to read whatever you want!”
Robert Kennedy Jr: “A govt that… pic.twitter.com/CtXYWRfOZ7
— Becker News (@NewsBecker) July 20, 2023
Rapid Reaction: They just can’t help themselves. Democrats get in a room for a hearing about Big Tech and Big Government working together to censor President Joe Biden’s opponents, and what happens? They rush right out of the gate to censor Biden’s top political opponent.
RFK, Jr. has been called every name under the sun — including fascist. Yet the Left has a strange definition of “anti-fascist” these days.
To a progressive, if you are anti-fascist, you must express your solidarity with the government and big corporations on the social justice issue du jour — in Kennedy’s case, vaccines.
Anyone who fails to do so — according to the Left’s logic — must be subjected to browbeating, cancelation, and intimidation. Those who don’t fall in line must be doxxed and have their employers contacted, and anybody sponsoring their business or paying for their product is to be skewered as a bigot worthy of societal banishment — all in the name of tolerance, freedom, and justice.
It makes no sense. And unfortunately, that is the point.
Read more here.
2. Bombshell Evidence Of Biden Family Corruption
Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) released a bombshell document on Thursday detailing an alleged bribery scheme involving then-Vice President Joe Biden and a Ukrainian business executive.
According to Grassley, the document shows that a Ukrainian oligarch claimed he was “coerced” into making a payoff to the president and his son. The New York Post reported that the owner of Ukrainian gas company Burisma Holdings, Mykola Zlochevsky, told the FBI informant in 2016 during a meeting that “it cost 5 [million] to pay one Biden, and 5 [million] to another Biden.” House GOP members had previously threatened FBI Director Christopher Wray with contempt of Congress for not sharing this document earlier, forcing Wray and the FBI to release it.
Rapid Reaction: Writer Julie Kelly had a great reaction to this unbelievable news: “I know this is hard to believe, but Joe Biden and the media lied about this (and many other related stories.)”
“VP Biden used US tax dollars to blackmail Ukrainian president into firing the state prosecutor investigating Burisma bc owner was bribing Joe and Hunter Biden to do so,” she said, going off the evidence.
I know this is hard to believe but Joe Biden and the media lied about this (and many other related stories.)
VP Biden used US tax dollars to blackmail Ukrainian president into firing the state prosecutor investigating Burisma bc owner was bribing Joe and Hunter Biden to do so: https://t.co/UxXiGp3hbJ
— Julie Kelly 🇺🇸 (@julie_kelly2) July 20, 2023
This evidence also calls into question just why exactly former President Donald Trump was impeached for inquiring about Biden family corruption in Ukraine.
Conservative communications professional Greg Price laid out the timeline as follows, based on the whistleblower’s claims:
2015: Burisma pays a $10,000,000 bribe to VP Joe Biden and Hunter Biden to have prosecutor Viktor Shokin fired.
2018: Biden brags publicly about getting Shokin fired.
2019: Trump gets impeached over a phone call with Zelenskyy asking him what happened to the prosecutor.
2015: Burisma pays a $10,000,000 bribe to VP Joe Biden and Hunter Biden to have prosecutor Viktor Shokin fired
2018: Biden brags publicly about getting Shokin fired.
2019: Trump gets impeached over a phone call with Zelenskyy asking him what happened to the prosecutor. pic.twitter.com/3LCMffERk0
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) July 20, 2023
Here’s Joe Biden bragging about getting a Ukrainian prosecutor fired when he was VP. The FBI doc alleges that Burisma paid Biden & Hunter millions to get this prosecutor fired, among other things. This feels like a smoking gun admission. pic.twitter.com/28bIvlHSw2
— Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) July 20, 2023
