Todd McMacken 🇺🇸 🇮🇱

High-ceiling stat geek and at-large hyphenator. Constitutionalist. Let there be light.

[Todd McMacken 🇺🇸 🇮🇱 @StringerBias]

@stacyherbert w/100+years of globalism at stake, what wouldn't be done to ensure continuity?All the options are on the table. unfortunately

[Henshi @HenshiG]

He was 34. Off duty. Waiting to tee off at Forest Park in Queens. When I lived in queens, I would run through the tree infested park. The sun would filter through the welcoming shade in geometric rays of light in the heat of the summer.

Michael was supposed to play golf.

Then a plane hit the World Trade Center.

His sister Patricia worked on the 72nd floor of the South Tower.

Michael Weinberg did not wait.
He ran without hesitation.

Traffic stopped him. He left his car in Long Island City and climbed onto whatever emergency vehicle would take him closer. He reached Engine 1, Ladder 24. He geared up. He drove Chaplain Mychal Judge and Captain Daniel Brethel toward the towers.

His sister got out.
He did not.

When the South Tower came down, Weinberg and Brethel tried to take cover under a fire truck. None of them made it.

His father Morty, a firefighter himself, said he knew immediately. There was no question in his voice. Only the certainty of a father who understood
exactly what his son had run toward.

That morning his older brother called Patricia on the Brooklyn Bridge and said, “Thank God you’re all right. And Michael is on vacation.”

At that same moment, Michael was already there.
He made his choice in the time it takes to put down a golf club.

My brother was a volunteer medic who ran towards danger. My firefighter buddy, Mario was unreachable.

I thought he was gone.

He survived and has a beautiful family after that horrific attack

This beautiful and heroic man did not
Rest easy, Michael.
We remember you. May your memory be a blessing,

[航空自衛隊百里基地 @jasdf_hyakuri]

第3飛行隊70周年記念
一度見たら忘れられない、心に残る「第3飛行隊の侍」を。
長年温められてきた構想と、子供たちに「かっこいい！」と憧れてもらいたいという思いを形にした #記念塗装機 が、遂に完成！
その雄姿を、ぜひ皆さんの心に焼き付けてください🔥
#百里基地 #第3飛行隊 #３ＳＱ70周年

[Todd McMacken 🇺🇸 🇮🇱 @StringerBias]

@nut_history Modern approach/lift & pull would destroy that place.

[Christopher Ward @modelstrangers]

For many who watched this video, it was a warning from the future.

Over 8 million views across YouTube and Instagram.

One of the most raw encounters I’ve ever had.

👇🏼

[Mike Netter @nettermike]

He told his students to go to the windows.
Get out. Jump if you have to.
Then Liviu Librescu walked to the classroom door and pressed his body against it.
He was 76 years old. He weighed 140 lbs
The gunman was in the hallway.
It was April 16, 2007. A Monday morning. Solid mechanics class at Virginia Tech, Room 204. Twenty-two students, most of them 19 or 20 years old.
At 9:45 AM, gunshots echoed through Norris Hall. Room by room, the shooter was working his way down the corridor.
Liviu heard it. He understood immediately.
He had survived the Holocaust. He had survived a labor camp. He had spent decades living under Communist oppression. He knew exactly what evil sounded like.
He told his students to escape through the windows. Second floor — it was a drop, but they'd survive. Then he walked to the door and held it shut with his body.
The shooter tried to force it open. It wouldn't move.
He fired through the door. Wood splintered. Bullets came through.
Liviu stayed.
Behind him, students were climbing out the windows. Dropping to the ground. Running. One by one, all twenty-two of them got out.
The shooter kept firing through the door.
Liviu held it shut until every student was safe.
Then the bullets killed him.
When police arrived, they found his body at the door.
All 22 of his students survived. Not one was injured.
Liviu Librescu was born on August 18, 1930, in Ploiești, Romania.
He was Jewish. In 1941, when he was eleven years old, Romanian authorities sent him and his family to a labor camp. His father died there. Liviu survived. When the war ended, he was fifteen.
He went back to school. Studied engineering. Earned a doctorate from the University of Bucharest.
But Communist Romania had no interest in allowing a Jewish intellectual to succeed. He was blocked from academic positions. Passed over for jobs he deserved. He applied to emigrate. The government kept refusing.
Finally, in 1978 when Liviu was 48 years old — Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin personally intervened. Romania let him go.
He had spent most of his adult life trapped in a country that didn't want him.
In Israel, he taught at Tel Aviv University. Published over 300 papers. Became an international expert in aeroelasticity — the science of how air flows over aircraft wings.
In 1985, Virginia Tech offered him a position. He moved to Blacksburg, Virginia. He taught there for 22 years. His students loved him — demanding but kind, high standards, genuine care.
He was still teaching full-time at 76. Still publishing research. Still showing up every Monday morning for solid mechanics.
April 16 was the first day of Passover — the Jewish holiday celebrating liberation from slavery and oppression.
Liviu Librescu died on the day his tradition sets aside to celebrate freedom.
He spent his entire life escaping death and oppression by luck, by persistence, by the intervention of others. And on his last morning, he chose to stand at a door so that twenty-two young people could have the future he had fought so hard to reach.
He could have run. He could have hidden. He could have climbed out a window with his students.
He chose to stay.
The Virginia Tech shooting killed 32 people that day — the deadliest school shooting in American history at the time.
Room 204 had zero casualties.
Because a 76-year-old Holocaust survivor held a door with his body until every student behind him was gone.
His funeral was held in Israel. Students from Virginia Tech flew across the ocean to honor him. The Israeli government awarded him the Star of David Medal posthumously. Virginia Tech named a scholarship in his memory.
His son said his father died the way he lived — protecting others.
A man who survived everything evil threw at him for 76 years.
On his last day, he made sure 22 kids survived too.
Professor Liviu Librescu. August 18, 1930 — April 16, 2007.
Holocaust survivor. Labor camp survivor.
302 published papers. 22 years at Virginia Tech.
22 students out the window.
He held the door.

[Jacob Turner @TheJacobTurner]

They cut Mike Trout, the greatest baseball player of our generation.

A story you probably never heard and the lesson to learn:

Back in 2008, I was a high school junior.

I was an up-and-coming baseball player, and my first big break was an invitation to the USA Baseball team trials.

You see, each year USA Baseball brought in 100+ of the best baseball players in the country to try out for the 18u national team.

That year, USA Baseball had arranged for two players each to stay with a host family.

My roommate was a player named, Mike Trout.

Mike had incredible athleticism but was from the Northeast so he didn't come into the event on the "hype train" like some of the top prospects from California, Texas, and Florida did.

We both performed well at the event and made it to the final stage of the trials.

Here, USA Baseball chose the final 18 players for the national team.

Mike didn't make those final 18 players.

Fast forward all these years, and Mike is the best player of a generation.

A surefire Hall of Famer and arguably one of the greatest baseball players of all time.

Funny, how life works sometimes.

Look...the lesson we can all learn from this ~ life is full of things outside our control.

*You will be told no.
*You will suffer adversity.
*You will face disappointment.

Accept it as part of your journey.

My friends, we focus far too much on the end destination and completely miss the beauty in the journey.

The come up, the adversity, and the struggle are what you will talk about one day.

It makes the destination worth striving for.

So, the next time you face a setback, remember Mike's story.

-

Photo Credit: David Richard/USA Today Sports

[Eric Weinstein @ericweinstein]

As real as it gets.

[Jake’sGoldStarMom @HeidiJeanLK]

On this day 13 years ago, my only son was sworn in to the US Army. In ten days, it will be 12 years since he was killed in Afghanistan 2 weeks before he was due to come home. He was just 21. This week is also Memorial Day. My greatest fear now is that he will be forgotten. Please help me remember my boy during this tough week of special dates (share if you feel inspired. It never gets easier but the love and support always helps. ♥️🇺🇸

Jacob H Wykstra
KIA May 28th, 2014
Maruf, Afghanistan

Jake was a Christian, an athlete, a patriot, an artist, dog lover, a friend to all and the funniest, happiest guy in the platoon. Jake, you’ve left a huge void in our lives, but we will see you one day and there will no more heartache and no more goodbyes ♥️🇺🇸

[Todd McMacken 🇺🇸 🇮🇱 @StringerBias]

@mlbbowman D-Rake!

[Valerie Anne Smith @ValerieAnne1970]

@CrowMoon27 https://t.co/OpC9ebNyIc I still use the website to this day for reaffirm research for my vaccine posts.

[The All-In Podcast @theallinpod]

David Sacks: “ The Democrats want to thwart mass deportations because illegal immigrants are a vital part of their power base.” 🚨

“And you can see this in the 2030 apportionment forecast, which just came out.”

“Illegal aliens count towards the census, which occurs every decade, and the census determines the apportionment of congressional seats and electoral votes.”

“And what you see in these maps is that citizens of blue states have been migrating to red states because those blue states are failing.”

“As a result of that, blue states are expected to lose nine house seats and electoral votes because of the changing population numbers.”

“Illegal aliens in blue states have been propping up those numbers, and so for example, in the last election, President Trump would've won an additional nine electoral votes if we had an accurate accounting.”

[U.S. Senator John Fetterman @SenFettermanPA]

After years of anti-Israel protests in Australia, at least 11 Jews were just gunned down at a Hanukkah event.

Tree of Life to 10/07 to Bondi Beach: antisemitism is a rising and deadly global scourge.

I stand and grieve with Israel and the Jewish global community. 🇮🇱

[🇦🇪 HGS @Sajwani]

Tell her there’s a crazy Arab guy on 𝕏 from the UAE 🇦🇪 who thinks she is the strongest girl he’s ever known. And tell her that when you will recover and be able to travel, he is inviting you to come and see Dubai. (Tickets and hotels on me — and I mean it). My DMs are open. God bless

[Hillel Neuer @HillelNeuer]

The prepared remarks of my Oxford Union debate held on November 13, 2025, on the proposition that “Israel is a greater threat to regional stability than the Islamic Republic of Iran.”

Mr. President, I confess that I hesitated before agreeing to debate this evening. To do so risks dignifying a proposition so disconnected from basic facts that it verges on the satirical: that Israel, of all states, poses a greater threat to regional stability than the Islamic Republic of Iran.

But we now live in an age where people will believe almost anything. Nearly one in four people in thie country aged 18 to 34 believe that the 7/7 terrorist attacks were “probably a hoax.”

And here in this Oxford Union, we saw just three weeks ago that no less than 501 members believe it is right to vote in support of the incoming president, after he had publicly celebrated the killing of Charlie Kirk.

So I decided it was necessary to attend and lay out a few essential facts proving that tonight’s proposition is not merely wrong, but the inversion of reality.

Regional stability is measured by who starts wars, not by who stops them. Israel not arm terror proxies in five Arab countries; Iran does. The entire Middle East knows this, which is why Arab states quietly depend on Israel for their own survival.

Fact: The moderate Sunni Arab countries are part of a strategic alliance with Israel, going back decades. Egypt signed a peace treaty with Israel in 1979. Jordan did so in 1994. In 2020, under the historic Abraham Accords, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Morocco, and Sudan signed peace and normalization agreements with Israel. The accords recognize that the Arab and Jewish peoples are descendants of a common ancestor, Abraham — indigenous to the region — and they articulate a vision of advancing a culture of peace, security and prosperity.

Fact: Saudi Arabia, custodian of the two holy mosques, has also developed a significant rappochement with Israel. Indeed, captured minutes of Hamas leadership meetings show that this was a key factor in their decision to invade Israel and launch the war and massacre on October 7, 2023. Hamas wrote: “There is no doubt that the Saudi-Zionist normalization agreement is progressing significantly.” So they decided on “an extraordinary action” to try and torpedo it.

Fact: this regional alliance between Israel and the moderate Arab countries was resilient enough to survive the war of the past two years. Last year, neighboring Egypt and Jordan imported a record amount of natural gas from Israel. Israel provides parched Jordan with 100 million cubic meters a year. How is Israel “a threat to regional stability”? The opposite is true.

One of the most powerful illustrations of this regional alliance came last year, on April 13, 2024, when the Islamic regime in Iran launched an unprecedented attack on the people of Israel — with 170 drones, over 30 cruise missiles, and more than 120 ballistic missiles.

Those who helped shoot down the incoming weapons included the air forces of the US, the UK, France, and Jordan, while Gulf states such as Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates contributed intelligence, including radar tracking information.

This wasn’t a one-off. When Iran attacked Israel again in June 2025, Jordan shot down Iranian missiles and drones crossing overhead, and Saudi Arabia reportedly allowed Israel to use its airspace to do so.

The fact that Sunni Arab states provided a combination of air force interceptions, radar and intelligence is a a real-world vote on tonight’s motion. They know that for their people, Israel is a partner in survival; and the Islamic Regime in Iran is an existential threat.

You don’t intercept missiles heading toward a ‘threat to regional stability’. You intercept missiles from one.

The Islamic Republic of Iran

Now let us address the true driver of instability: the Islamic Regime in Iran. Revolutionary Jihad is their raison d’etre.

Compare and contrast. Israel, at the very moment of its birth on May 14, 1948, in its Declaration of Independence, reached out to its neighbors with a simple message: “We extend our hand to all neighboring states and their peoples in an offer of peace.”

With the Islamic Regime in Iran, it was the exact opposite. On the first anniversary of his regime, February 11, 1980, Ayatollah Khomeini declared: “We shall export our revolution to the whole world. Until the cry, ‘There is no God but Allah’ resounds over the whole world, there will be struggle.”

And that is what they do — in the region and beyond. Iran, through its Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, exports terrorism and war.

Look at Yemen. They armed and trained the Houthis, a group whose slogan is “Death to America, Death to Israel, Damn the Jews.”

The Houthis destroyed Yemen: collapsing state institutions, crippling hospitals and basic services, diverting aid, and deepening famine and economic freefall. Backed by Iran, they turned the country into a battlefield for regional power struggles. Their own people are starving, yet unprovoked, from a thousand miles away, the Houthis have used Yemen’s resources to attack Israeli cities with more than 400 ballistic missiles and drones. All sponsored by Iran. Is this stability?

Look at Lebanon. Iran’s proxy Hezbollah hollowed out every institution that once made the country function, turning in into a failed state. They built an Iranian-funded parallel military stronger than the Lebanese army, seized control of border crossings and ports, and converted entire regions into fortified enclaves beyond the reach of the state. They assassinated critics, toppled governments that tried to assert sovereignty, and dragged Lebanon into wars its people never chose. Hezbollah’s capture of the economy—fuel smuggling, customs evasion, protection rackets—bled the treasury dry and helped trigger Lebanon’s financial collapse. Its veto power over politics turned parliament into paralysis. Its domination of security services allowed corruption and impunity to flourish.

And by launching attacks on Israel from civilian neighborhoods, it ensured that Lebanon would live permanently on the brink of war, scaring off investment, tourism, and any hope of recovery. In short: Hezbollah replaced the Lebanese state with an Iranian proxy empire, and the result was national ruin.

Look at Syria. When Syrians protested peacefully in 2011, the Assad regime was on the brink of collapse. Iran intervened to save its client. It deployed IRGC commanders, imported thousands of Shia militiamen from Iraq, Afghanistan, and Lebanon, and oversaw sectarian cleansing in key corridors linking Damascus to the coast. Tehran funded and directed a campaign of mass atrocities — from starvation sieges to chemical attacks — that killed hundreds of thousands, and displaced millions, half the country. It entrenched militias across Syrian territory, built missile factories on Syrian soil, and used the country as a forward base to attack Israel and threaten Jordan. Iran did not stabilize Syria; it shattered it.

Look at Iraq. Iran filled the post-Saddam vacuum by building militias stronger than the state. Through the IRGC and its Popular Mobilization Forces, Tehran created armed factions that answer to Iran, not Baghdad. They seized border crossings, looted state revenues, and assassinated activists who demanded Iraqi sovereignty. These militias toppled governments, paralyzed parliament, and turned Iraq into a launchpad for Iranian rocket and drone attacks. Iran didn’t stabilize Iraq; it captured it, replacing national institutions with a network of loyalist armed groups.

Look at Gaza. Iran transformed Hamas into a mini-army. Tehran funded rockets, tunnels, and drone programs, while Hamas diverted aid from civilians to weapons. Instead of building a future for Palestinians, Hamas — with Iranian training — built an underground fortress beneath homes, hospitals, and schools. The result was October 7th: the deadliest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust. Gaza is beautiful beachfront property. It could have been prosperous. But Iran made it a military outpost for its war on Israel, condemning Palestinians to endless conflict.

And let’s look worldwide. In Australia, the Iranian regime hired criminals to terrorize the Jewish community, firebombing a synagogue, and burning a kosher café, prompting Australia to break its relations with Iran. In Argentina, Iran and Hezbollah bombed the Jewish community building in Buenos Aires, murdering 85 people and injuring over 300.

The regime targets dissidents worldwide. Here in the UK, on March 29th, 2024, assailants hired by Iran stabbed journalist Pouria Zeraati outside his London residence.

Earlier this week, I was at the World Liberty Congress with my friend Masih Alinejad, who now lives in New York. The Islamic regime tried to kidnap or kill her three times. They sent a hitman with an AK-47 to her home in New York.

In the Netherlands, the regime assassinated Iranian dissidents: Ali Motamed in 2015, and two years later, Ahmad Nissi. Dutch, Swedish, French and UK Intelligence have all confirmed that Iran is hiring criminal gangs to target dissidents in Europe.

Assassinating dissidents worldwide is why Iran is a terrorist regime. That is why the IRGC is designated as a terrorist organization by Australia, Bahrain, Canada, Ecuador, Paraguay, Saudi Arabia, Sweden and the United States.

My opponent Ataollah Mohajerani was complicit with Iranian regime crimes

Mr. President, in this regard, I would be remiss not to mention that a human rights lawyer from this university, from Oxford, has filed a complaint and legal dossier with the police against my opponent in this debate, Mr. Ataollah Mohajerani, for his role in the assassination of disdidents.

As described in The Guardian, on January 30, 2023, the founder of the Oxford University Public Interest Law program, Kaveh Moussavi, has alleged complicity by Mr. Mohajerani, who was a senior Iranian regime official between 1989 and 1997, “during a period when hundreds of assassinations of dissidents in Europe were attempted and committed on the orders of the Iranian regime.”

Moreover, the complaint points to Mr. Mohajerani’s 1989 book, “A Critique of the Satanic Verses Conspiracy,” in which he endorses and justifies the fatwa issued by Ayatollah Khomeini in 1999 against the famed novelist Salman Rushdie, who was stabbed 15 times in 2022 — as a result, presumably, of this Fatwa. And in the book, Mr. Mohajani writes in his book that Rushdie is, “an absolute apostate, and the punishment of an apostate is execution.”

And so, Mr. Mohajarani, tonight you say you stand for regional stability, but you have once blessed the idea that an author, a citizen of this country, should be killed for writing a book. So please tell this house: Do you still believe that writers deserve death, or will you finally retract and renounce your support for that Fatwa?

[Though he spoke after, Ataollah Mohajerani never answered the question.]

Stability includes women’s rights

But stability isn’t just military or geopolitical. In the words of the British Department for International Development: “Open, inclusive societies reduce the risk of the spread of instability.”

Indeed, a society is stable where a woman can walk on the street without being attacked for defending her rights. In Israel, women have served as pilots, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, opposition leader, and Prime Minister. They are visible and vocal in public life — leading companies, commanding army units, shaping law and policy, and freely expressing their opinions in the press and on the streets, in the tens and even hundreds of thousands. By contrast, in the Islamic Republic of Iran, women get banned from sports stadiums, imprisoned for singing in public, or beaten to death for wearing improper Hijab, like Jinna Mahsa Amini. In Iran, women are made punished simply for wanting to be seen, heard, or free.

And make no mistake. What happens in Iran doesn’t stay in Iran. They export the repression. In Yemen, the Iran-backed Houthis have banned women from traveling without a male guardian. Female aid workers can’t even move freely to deliver desperately-needed humanitarian assistance. In Lebanon, in July 2023, the leader of Iran-backed Hezbollah called to kill gays and lesbians, sparking terror among LGBT people.

Rights for minorities

Stability for a society means also means basic human rights for minorities. In Israel, Arabs vote in the only free and fair elections in the entire Middle East. In the Islamic Republic of Iran, ethnic minorities are subject to discrimination, including Ahwazi Arabs, Azeris, Baluchis, Kurds and Turks.

And the regime targets religious minorities, including Christians — particularly those who converted from Islam — as well as Sufi Muslims, Sunni Muslims, Gonabadi Dervishes, Jews, Yarsanis, Zoroastrians, and, in particular, Baha’is, who face systemic persecution, including mass arrest and lengthy prison sentences.

Even the UN, which is often soft on Iran, has recognized these gross and systematic abuses. On December 17th, In Resolution 79/183, the UN condemned the Islamic Republic of Iran for restrictions on freedom of thought and religion, attacks on places of worship and burial, and harassment, intimidation, persecution, arbitrary arrest, detention of persons belonging to these minorities – as well as its incitement to hatred leading to violence — in violation of Iran’s obligations under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.

Right to protest

Stability for a society also means the right to protest. In Israel, it’s a national pastime to lambaste the government. In Tel Aviv, Saturday-evening protests have often drawn tens of thousands, and even hundreds of thousands of demonstrators.

In Iran, they beat, blind, rape, torture and kill women who protest. During the Woman Life Freedom protests of 2022, the regime arrested 20,000 people, across 130 cities. At least 551 people—including dozens of children—were killed. For protesting.

Conclusion

In the final analysis, Mr. President, the greatest threat to regional stability is a regime that murders its own people, hunts its critics across Europe and America, arms terror proxie, and exports terror on four continents.

The Islamic Regime in Iran has killed hundreds of thousands in Syria, shattered Yemen through the Houthis, bankrupted Lebanon through Hezbollah, hijacked Iraq through militias, and turned Gaza into a launching pad for the worst massacre of Jews since the Holocaust.

At home, they shoots women in the streets, blind teenagers, torture dissidents, and execute protesters. Abroad, they sends terrorists and assassins to murder innocents in New York, London, and Buenos Aires.

This is not a government seeking stability; it is a revolutionary engine of hate, terror, and chaos. Israel, by contrast, is the firewall that prevents Iran’s imperial project from engulfing the region.

To claim Israel is the greater threat to stability is not merely wrong — it is an inversion of reality itself.

[Vivid.🇮🇱 @VividProwess]

Israeli Arabs flew to the heart of New York to proudly wave the Israeli flag and face the pro-Hamas, anti-Israel protesters.

"We're not afraid. Arab Israelis came to tell the truth."

Heroes.

[Mor Edge Insight @MorEdge_Insight]

This was one of the most incredible stories during the past two years. Fawzia Amin Sido, a Yazidi girl kidnapped by ISIS in Iraq a decade ago when she was just 11 years old and sold to a Gazan, was rescued by the IDF during a complex operation.

The man behind the campaign to rescue her was a Canadian, Steve Maman. Fawzia was found and reunited with her family in Iraq after being brought to Israel and given medical treatment following her rescue.

How many other young girls and women were kidnapped by these Islamists and taken to Gaza? We may never know how many innocent people are held hostage in Gaza.

You cannot hate Gazans and Islamists enough.

[Lindsey Graham @LindseyGrahamSC]

It is my understanding Ireland is about to make a motion to the European body governing soccer to ban Israel from playing in European soccer tournaments.

Ireland and others would be punishing the Jewish people 80 years after the Holocaust because they choose to fight back against terrorist groups who wish to kill all the Jews. Hamas started this war. Hamas has put civilians at risk to continue this war. And Hamas is a radical Islamic terrorist group dedicated to the destruction of Israel. They must be defeated militarily and politically.

If these attacks against Israel continue, I will do everything in my power to make those who participate in this effort to marginalize Israel in sports, and elsewhere, pay a heavy price when it comes to access to the American economy.

https://t.co/QAyoytcAAA

[Nayib Bukele @nayibbukele]

The first plane carrying aid from El Salvador arrived in Jamaica last night, following the devastation caused by Hurricane Melissa.

In total, 3 planes will deliver relief (1 per day) bringing 300 rescuers and 50 tons of humanitarian aid.

May God be with our brothers in Jamaica.

[Svetlana Lokhova @RealSLokhova]

GRAND CONSPIRACY AGAINST PRESIDENT TRUMP

Former Attorney General, Sen. Eric Schmitt explains that people WILL be held accountable for their part of this conspiracy, and that there is likely an ongoing investigation into Russiagate and what followed.

"The statute of limitations has not run out on a conspiracy. And if you're a co-conspirator in mile marker one, even if you want to get on the exit ramp in mile marker five, you are liable for the conspiracy in mile marker ten. And we are at mile marker ten."

SCHMITT: I am struck by the degree of the cognitive dissonance that I hear on the other side. I'm used to sort of political debates and arguing in court and all those sorts of things, but to hear the other side of the dais to talk about weaponization is truly shocking given what we know now. And I thought what I might do is just tell a story, and these are 100% facts.

Hillary Clinton, concerned about her email scandal, works with a Soros organization to cook up this Russiagate nonsense.

They feed it to the intelligence agencies, and they spy under Barack Obama's presidency, they spy on the political opponent, the Republican running against Hillary Clinton.

He gets elected. They continue the operation, and they launder this intelligence into stuff that was meant to by the FBI and the CIA to sideline a presidency of a duly elected president of the United States of America, to sideline him. And that continued. You heard even some people on this committee further that nonsense for four years.

And then the FBI is involved with pre-bunking the Hunter Biden laptop story, because they couldn't, they didn't want to be elected again. So they pre-bunked the Hunter Biden laptop story. The American people should have been allowed to make their own judgments from that. They weren't, because the FBI called it a Russian hack-and-leak operation.

They were meeting with social media companies every month and every week, telling them that the laptop that they knew that they had verified in November of 2019, they knew it was real and it was his, said it was Russian disinformation. We've heard that before.

And then, after Joe Biden comes in, three days in, they start a censorship campaign against the country, anybody who's a conservative. And now we also know that the FBI was weaponized in this Arctic Frost investigation, that tapped the phones of sitting U.S. senators. And also, the Republican Attorneys General Association, so let's pull in two more U.S. senators, Ashley Moody and myself, who were on the Executive Committee at that time. Charlie Kirk, political organizations they didn't agree with. This is not in the Soviet Union in the 1980s. This is in the United States of America in the last few years.

When they thought President Trump was on the run, and there's no way people would elect him, and then he announces he's running for president. Three days later, Jack Smith's appointed to get Trump. Fannie Willis brings charges against President Trump, and the assistant prosecutor meets with the White House Counsel's Office. Why would that happen? Then you have Alvin Bragg bring his charges. The number three person at DOJ goes to work for him to get Trump. All in the United States of America.

This continued, and Senator Hawley asked the question, what is happening in this country? And I hope that MSNBC is still broadcasting this, because I'm sure their viewership hasn't heard this story that's gone on for ten years.

The truth is, they never forgave President Trump for coming down the escalator at all. They didn't like him, they didn't like the disruption, and they've spent the better part of a decade not just going after him, but demonizing half the country as fascists and Nazis and threats to democracy. And they have fueled this division in their inability to accept the fact that half of the country isn't deplorables as Hillary Clinton called her, bitter clingers as Barack Obama called them, or trash as Joe Biden called them. But they rose up and they sat in their own jury box and they saw all this stuff play out over a decade and they rejected it.

And now you have come in to clean that up, and you are doing a great job in doing that. And let me make this clear, there is a big difference between what happened under the Biden regime and the weaponization, and then holding those people accountable. If that doesn't happen, this will happen all over again.

So your job, as you talked about in your confirmation hearing, is so important that this never happens again. And holding people accountable for a part of this conspiracy is absolutely your job. And I'm also taking, you don't have to comment on this, your unwillingness to answer questions that have come up. I am led to believe, as a former Attorney General, that that might mean there's an ongoing investigation. You don't have to talk about it.

The statute of limitations may have run on some of this stuff, but not on a conspiracy. And if you're a co-conspirator in mile marker one, even if you want to get on the exit ramp in mile marker five, you are liable for the conspiracy in mile marker ten. And we are at mile marker ten.

[Todd McMacken 🇺🇸 🇮🇱 @StringerBias]

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