{"id":56302,"date":"2023-02-09T13:08:58","date_gmt":"2023-02-09T21:08:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=56302"},"modified":"2023-11-26T11:54:24","modified_gmt":"2023-11-26T19:54:24","slug":"herr-trump-embraces-fascist-gop-threats-to-regulate-twitter-and-arrest-their-executives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=56302","title":{"rendered":"Herr Trump Embraces Fascist GOP Threats to Regulate Twitter and Arrest Their Executives"},"content":{"rendered":"

During his brief but abominable occupation of the White House, Donald Trump distinguished himself from his predecessors by relentlessly expressing his aversion to the free press and the Constitution. He repeatedly referred to the media as “the enemy of the people,”<\/em> and more recently literally called for termination of the Constitution<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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On Wednesday the newly GOP-led House Oversight Committee held a hearing to finally get to the bottom of the Scandal of the Century, Hunter Biden’s stolen laptop. Specifically the Committee sought to prove that the pre-Elon Musk Twitter regime had deliberately skewed their policies to adversely affect conservatives and Republicans and, especially Donald Trump.<\/p>\n

The Republicans staged a shamelessly shallow exercise in feigned outrage over imaginary offenses that was triggered by the embarrassingly ineffective attempt by Musk’s “Twitter Files”<\/em> “expos\u00e9”<\/em> to unveil political bias on the part of Twitter’s previous staff.<\/p>\n

RELATED: OH-MY: Trump Unleashes Vile Threats in Tantrum Over Elon Musk\u2019s \u2018Twitter Files\u2019 Farce<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Notable during the avalanche of asininity on the part of Republican members of the Committee, were the remarks by Clay Higgins of Louisiana. When it was his turn to question the Twitter executives who were summoned before the Committee to testify, Higgins launched into an unhinged flurry of baseless accusations and culminating in outright threats:<\/p>\n

“You, ladies and gentlemen interfered with the United States of America 2020 presidential election, knowingly and willingly. That\u2019s the bad news. It\u2019s gonna get worse because this is the investigation part. Later comes the arrests part. Your attorneys are familiar with that.”
\nMarjorie Taylor Greene said the same thing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Clay Higgins tells former Twitter employees they are going to get arrested for rigging the 2020 election. pic.twitter.com\/vyBoHb3UVl<\/a><\/p>\n

— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) February 8, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n