@WSJ@WSJFreeEx@WSJopinion@MattHennessey It’s public record, not a secret, that the Republican Jewish Coalition, AIPAC, and a Miriam Adelson funded superPAC spent tens of millions of dollars against me to buy this Congressional seat in Kentucky.
I lost the election but we started a revolution. Keep the flame of LIBERTY burning my friends! I will continue to put People and Principles before Party. America First! 🇺🇸
@tedcruz I proudly stood in the way of your AI-data center amendment to the Big Beautiful Bill that would have given those companies immunity from the law. In fact, @mtgreenee and I got it stripped from the bill. Did your big tech cronies still let you cash their checks after you failed?
It’s sad that a week before this election people are making false and unsubstantiated allegations about me in an obvious attempt to influence the outcome of this election.
All of the claims of inappropriate conduct are false. I’ve never offered anyone money in exchange for their silence. I report all of my farm income, including cash, to the IRS.
There are no ethics claims filed against me, nor have there ever been any claims filed against me in my 14 years in office. I have consulted legal counsel and we are considering all options.
@willchamberlain No, absolutely not. Look at the newer articles. She now says I gave her the money in December, before she even started the job with Spartz.
This is a hatchet job and you’re complicit.
@willchamberlain I hope you have good lawyers when this is over. Why do you still assert that the NDA allegedly offered by Spartz office (or House employment office) would have prevented her from talking about me? Perhaps you should clarify that you’re making that part up?
BREAKING: Some people are saying this appears to be a photo of Ed Gallrein with Jeffrey Epstein!
Could THIS be why Ed's donors (who are in the Epstein list) are trying SO HARD to defeat Thomas Massie?
The last time I interacted with Mark Levin was when he was defending Barack Obama over the intervention in Libya (which turned out awesome, like all the interventions Levin favors)
I was taking the wild position that no, we should not defend Obama
@marklevinshow This was 15 years ago. 😂
"One gentleman asked, without any invective or disrespect, if Levin would be willing to debate me, perhaps at the Reagan Library in California. That gentleman was simply deleted from Levin’s Facebook page."
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Congress created, funds, and oversees the Department of Justice. But when will we see justice for Epstein survivors?
Over two dozen people have resigned, but none in the US have been arrested. On the House floor, I named 3 men the DOJ needs to investigate and hold accountable.
I was attacked for exposing Bondi, but I noticed something...
He says I’m “fighting aimlessly AGAINST a hopeless agenda of Hate and Stupidity”
If I’m fighting against an “agenda of Hate and Stupidity” isn’t that a good thing?
Let’s go! Help me fight!
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Can you, the people, “vote your way out of this?”
Honestly, not if you get your news from these folks.
The swamp has tricks for deceiving the public, and most even work on congressmen. Here’s an example of how Laura and Greg played along as happy tools of the swamp.
Please ask yourself why your own congressman has never talked about this. He either hasn’t gotten this far in the game (80% chance), or he likes the way the swamp obscures what’s going on (10% chance), or he dislikes the system but the price he’d pay for telling you is too high (10% chance). If a congressman sees this post and wants to debate me, I accept!
The House has rules we adopt at the beginning of each Congress. Honestly we should just use those - some go all the way back to Thomas Jefferson. Some are like Robert’s Rules of Order which branched from House rules a century ago. But we have a rules committee that modifies the rules every week. I served on the rules committee for two years. When I was on the committee, I refused to vote for rules changes if the purpose was to mislead or obscure. Every week, the rules committee bends the rules to suit the Speaker, but you can’t place the blame just on the committee or the Speaker. Every rules change must be approved by the whole House with a majority vote.
Rank and file congressmen are told to vote for these rules modifications each week for the sake of party loyalty because the rules are temporarily modified by the majority to keep the minority from using the permanent rules against us. This is partly true, so most congressmen never question beyond this.
Typically, every week the rules committee meets before other committees and writes a rules package to protect bills that will come to the floor that week. Then the whole house votes on this rules package early in the week before significant legislation comes to the floor. The vote is typically on party lines. Sometimes a block of congressmen in the majority will take the rules package hostage and withhold their vote to get something else that has nothing to do with the rules. I’m not a big fan of this, but after 13 years, my hands aren’t completely clean of this tactic.
The high-road position that I try to maintain is that if the rules package is bad, you shouldn’t vote for the rules package, and in general you shouldn’t withhold your vote from a rules package if there’s nothing wrong with the rules package… even if you disagree with the policy that is enabled to come to the floor by the rules package.
There are more details, but that’s all you need to know to understand what I’m going to explain next.
This week the Speaker wanted to do two things outside of our base rules, so he put those inside of the rules package that also had the rules for bringing bills like the popular SAVE Act to the floor, knowing members would be afraid to vote against something associated with SAVE. THIS IS INTENTIONAL.
The Speaker wanted to circumvent the National Emergencies Act of 1976 to avoid voting on tariffs and he wanted to turn off the ban on bringing a spending bill to the floor the same day it’s introduced.
The first rules package that came to the floor this week failed because myself and other republicans objected to it. The rules committee met again, wrote a new rules package without the tariff-trick, and we voted on the second rules package. I voted no but internet goons, like clockwork, characterized this as a vote against the SAVE Act.
The swamp used that second rules package to give them authority to pass a bill before anyone could read it. They hid that authority inside the rule for the SAVE act because they knew people like Laura and Greg would help them disparage anyone who didn’t go along.
If you fell for Laura and Greg’s slop you were cheering for the Pelosi doctrine that we should pass bills to see what’s in them. If the rules package had failed, the rules committee would have written a better one and SAVE Act would have still come to the floor.
Remember when we learned that our wealthiest and most powerful people were connected to a guy who ran a literal child sex trafficking ring? And then that guy died mysteriously in a jail? And then we got files affirming what took place? And now JD Vance just doesn’t talk about it.
I took a lot of heat early on for pointing out that Trump is no friend to libertarians and constitutional conservatives. Everything he’s done since 2017 to target, smear, and defeat the most principled Republicans in Congress has proven me right.