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Government Corruption
The One We've Been Waiting For: Twitter Files on COVID-19 Drops
2022-12-27
[RED STATE] The revelations of past Twitter Files drops have been stunning, to say the least, with direct FBI involvement in the quashing of free speech being perhaps the biggest bombshell. The uncovering of corruption isn’t over yet, though. Not by a long shot.

The next major installment is, for my money, the one we’ve been waiting for. Namely, it covers Twitter’s suppression of speech in regard to COVID-19, and there are some surprising reveals included. For example, the Trump administration didn’t have its hands clean in regard to coordinating with Twitter to combat "misinformation."

I may be a partisan, but I’m not a hack, and my consistent standard on "misinformation" has been that the government should not play a role in policing it. There’s simply too much that can happen as far as abuse of power and violations of the First Amendment to let politicians and bureaucrats touch that third rail. The Trump administration may have had good intentions, and their transgressions may have not been nearly as egregious, but it’s still disappointing to see that the former president played that game.

Of course, Joe Biden took things much further.
Posted by:Besoeker

#5  He’s waiting for Beto to make the first move.
Posted by: Super Hose   2022-12-27 11:11  

#4  PENCE prank or a trial balloon that showed better not to?
Posted by: NN2N1   2022-12-27 10:56  

#3  Mike Pence spokesman says former VP did not file to run for president, suggests that someone 'pranked' media
Posted by: Skidmark   2022-12-27 09:45  

#2  In the early months of Covid, you might give the Federal Govt some leeway in trying to focus the country on a response.

By late 2020, certainly by 2021, that excuse vanishes as more was known about the disease, detection, transmission, prevention and treatment.
Posted by: Lord Garth   2022-12-27 09:40  

#1  Splitting a hair here...

Googling "Pence placed in charge of Covid response"
Thus using Anti-Trump media numerous MSM and Social Media sites show Trump placed VP. Mike Pence in charge of the COV-19 handling in Feb. 2020.

So was it Pence that hosed it, or TRUMP that was fighting the MSM / LSD's/ and DC Swamp to even suggest International Travel bans?
Posted by: NN2N1   2022-12-27 09:16  

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