Robert Kelner

A lawyer advising on political law, FARA, congressional investigations & white collar defense. Reagan Republican. Zionist. Tweets reflect personal views only.

[Robert Kelner @robkelner]

Bravo. Keep going.

[Israel Defense Forces @IDF]

🔴ELIMINATED: Senior members of Hamas’ General Security Apparatus.

Senior members of the apparatus are responsible for protecting Hamas leaders, facilitating their movement between emergency facilities, and producing intelligence assessments.

Among the eliminated:
- Hassan Rabah Hassan Labad, Deputy Head of the General Security Apparatus
- Asim Amin Shalash Shubair
- Abdullah Ata Younes Abu Kaloub
- Muhammad Naaman Zaki Abu Mark

[Robert Kelner @robkelner]

Bravo, Secretary Rubio. We should talk about Tiananmen Square every year. Both because it is right and because it is a major vulnerability of the CCP.

[Reuters @Reuters]

China accused US Secretary of State Marco Rubio of distorting facts and interfering in internal affairs after he said memories of the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown in Beijing could not be erased by censorship https://t.co/06AwRPF0Mp

[Robert Kelner @robkelner]

Never forget.

[Visegrád 24 @visegrad24]

Video of Chinese communist security forces killing hundreds of protesting students on the Tiananmen Square in Beijing on June 4th, 1989. 🇨🇳

[Secretary Marco Rubio @SecRubio]

On June 4, the world marks 37 years since the Chinese Communist Party ordered its troops to attack thousands of peaceful demonstrators in and around Tiananmen Square. Those who sacrificed to uphold their unalienable rights of free expression and peaceful assembly will be vindicated someday.

[Robert Kelner @robkelner]

Brilliant. A tour de force.

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

Open Letter
To the President of the Russian Federation
From the President of Ukraine

When you came to power in Russia more than 26 years ago, many people in Ukraine viewed you positively. That is how it was. But that is now in the past.
Now, the overwhelming majority of Ukrainians view it positively that our long-range drones paid a visit to the opening of your forum in St. Petersburg, covering a distance of more than 1,000 kilometers. As you know very well, that distance is not the limit of our capabilities.

[Manu Raju @mkraju]

Thom Tillis, walking into my live shot, makes news on two fronts.
He says he’s a NO on Trump’s immigration bill without amendment killing weaponization fund.
He warns he’s a NO on Blanche if any equivocation on J6.
If there is, “you don’t even have a (chance) of getting my vote”

[Robert Kelner @robkelner]

Stunning. He has excellent counsel, so this plea would not have occurred without very good reason. https://t.co/h64wHyhA5o via @NYTimes

[Daniel Yergin @DanielYergin]

My new @WSJ column: The closure of the Strait of Hormuz has revealed how much has been learned about energy security since the 1970s oil crises. The global energy system is far more diversified now, mitigating (so far, at least) what could have been a catastrophic energy shock.👇

[Robert Kelner @robkelner]

Unconstitutional. As is the War Powers Act. If Congress would like to rule out a declaration of war, that it can do. No less than Thomas Jefferson agreed with me.

[Anthony Adragna @AnthonyAdragna]

🚨 NEWS: The House has **passed** a war powers resolution to rein in President Donald Trump over the war in Iran.

Four Republicans vote with Democrats to pass it: Davidson, Massie, Barrett and Fitzpatrick.

The vote was 215 to 208.

[Robert Kelner @robkelner]

Sorry, not being sworn in. Officiating at the wedding. Even further removed, if that were even possible, from any basis for recusal.

[Robert Kelner @robkelner]

If the President wants to appeal the decision, he can. That’s what you do if you don’t like a district court’s decision. So let’s see what the DC Circuit says on the merits. Judicial recusals are rare. And no, being sworn in by a distinguished federal appeals court judge, which is what Merrick Garland was at the time, is not even remotely grounds for recusal.

[Fox News Politics @foxnewspolitics]

The judge who ordered Trump's name stripped from the Kennedy Center married his wife in a ceremony officiated by Merrick Garland.

That wife, Amy Jeffress, represented Lisa Page during the FBI texting scandal, helped the Jan. 6 committee, and now serves as Joe Biden's personal attorney. Her former law firm represented E. Jean Carroll against Trump.

Trump says Judge Christopher Cooper has 'a total Conflict of Interest' and asserts he can't be treated fairly in Cooper's court.

[U.S. Central Command @CENTCOM]

🚫CLAIM: Iran claimed today that it did not attack the passenger terminal at Kuwait International Airport and damage was instead caused by a U.S. missile interceptor. Totally FALSE.

✅TRUTH: Iran struck the civilian airport with drones in a deliberate, calculated, and unjustified attack.

[Robert Kelner @robkelner]

This well restates the principles of movement conservatism in the United States. Though to be fair, it does not very well reflect the policies of the Trump-Pence Administration. (Some of it does, mostly it doesn’t.)

[Mike Pence @Mike_Pence]

Many Americans are confused about what it means to be a conservative.

That's why I wrote What Conservatives Believe

We believe in limited government, free market economics, strong defense, American leadership in the world, and traditional values.

[Robert Kelner @robkelner]

Sure. Why not. I think it needs more gold, though.

[ABC News @ABC]

President Trump is floating the possibility of keeping the UFC arena on the White House South Lawn — built for a series of fights on his birthday and Flag Day — permanently.

Read more: https://t.co/PdI3ZarEYr

[Robert Kelner @robkelner]

McConnell. The GOAT Senator.

[Jake Sherman @JakeSherman]

MCCONNELL on PULTE at DNI:

“Very few Senate-confirmable positions come with statutory eligibility requirements. There are good reasons why the Director of National Intelligence is one of them. Anyone performing this role of such immense public trust must have the extensive national security experience required by statute, and no nominee who falls short of this requirement will earn my vote.”

[Robert Kelner @robkelner]

ODNI was a post-9/11 mistake. CIA has reverted to its prior dominant role in the IC, which is good. Especially right now.

[Erin Banco @ErinBanco]

SCOOP: The CIA has stopped contributing to some ODNI intelligence assessments, including those related to the Iran war, as a result of a year-long feud between the agencies over turf and mission.

[Robert Kelner @robkelner]

Huge. via @FT
https://t.co/ho4tKptKm5

[Robert Kelner @robkelner]

Now pit the UVA Law faculty against the Yale Law faculty and Gemini. My money is on UVA.

[Orin Kerr @OrinKerr]

A group of contracts professors wrote some short-answer contracts questions, wrote answers, and then did a blind-test comparison between AI-written answers and the answers of the other professors.

The AI-written answers were generally rated as better.

https://t.co/Y6NgBCbDsZ

[Robert Kelner @robkelner]

Famously (in Russia) home of the brutally repressed Kronstadt shipyard workers rebellion against the Bolsheviks. Everyone in Saint Petersburg will know the war is not going well if Ukraine can strike so forcefully here. And even with censorship, word will spread. Bravo, Ukraine.

[OSINTdefender @sentdefender]

Wow! In addition to the targeting of the oil terminal and other energy infrastructure in St. Petersburg, during this morning’s large-scale Ukrainian drone attack against Northwestern Russia, the Veleshchynskyi Dry Dock in Kronstadt was also heavily targeted, setting fire and causing serious damage to the Boikiy, a Steregushchiy-class corvette part of the Russian Navy’s Baltic Fleet.

[Robert Kelner @robkelner]

Bernie is going soft in his old age. Lenin would have gone with 100 percent.

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

Taxing 50% of AI companies' stock to ensure that AI benefits humanity isn't radical, but let me tell you what is:

Since Trump was elected, the 7 richest men in America, all Big Tech oligarchs, became $1.15 trillion richer while 60% live paycheck to paycheck.

That's radical.