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Matthew Gertz

@MattGertz

Senior Fellow at @mmfa. Views expressed here my own. Husband of @alyssarosenberg. Dad. Not the GOP congressman, didn't pay for the blue check.

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Mitch McConnell, in his speech after voting to acquit Trump in 2021:

'We have a criminal justice system in this country. We have civil litigation. And former presidents are not immune from being held accountable by either one.'

Very popular take at the time!

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No one spent more time trying to conjure up an impeachable offense from Hunter Biden-related minutiae than Sean Hannity, whose program has accounted for an unfathomable 1,246 mentions of the president’s son since January 2023. No other hour produced more than 800 references.…

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shocked to the core to hear that the supreme court justices might rule in a way that just happens to align with their political preferences

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Fox News' failed attempt to use Hunter Biden to gin up an impeachment of his father, by the numbers
Fox mentioned Hunter Biden over 13,000 times in 16 months. Now the related impeachment probe is on life support. mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox-n…

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Mentions of Hunter Biden on Fox News, by month

December: 1,307
January: 786
February: 512
March: 347
April: 60 thus far. mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox-n…

Mentions of Hunter Biden on Fox News, by month December: 1,307 January: 786 February: 512 March: 347 April: 60 thus far. mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox-n…
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Fox News mentioned Hunter Biden over 13,000 times in 16 months. Now the related impeachment probe is on life support. mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox-n…

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tbh if the president of the United States is able to successfully order the military to assassinate his political enemies and allow him to remain in power, we are wildly beyond a world where law enforcement could take him into custody and prosecute him.

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YES THE FRAMERS STRUCTURE *HAD* PREVENTED A COUP UNTIL DONALD TRUMP TRIED ONE! THATS WHY WE’RE ALL HERE BUDDY!

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Far-right Christian media figures Sean Feucht and Eric Metaxas are planning a “United For Israel” march at Columbia today to counter student-led pro-Palestinian protests. (Metaxas has previously admitted to punching an anti-trump protester) Media Matters mediamatters.org/middle-east/fa…

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This is what they said about the culture of my great-grandparents who came here in the early 20th century. They said that we could never be assimilated and we needed to shut off all immigration to spot people like us from coming here.

They were wrong then. They are wrong now.

This is what they said about the culture of my great-grandparents who came here in the early 20th century. They said that we could never be assimilated and we needed to shut off all immigration to spot people like us from coming here. They were wrong then. They are wrong now.
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Kind of shocking to see a reporter explicitly say, access gets you better coverage. politico.com/news/magazine/…

Kind of shocking to see a reporter explicitly say, access gets you better coverage. politico.com/news/magazine/…
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'Forcing a TikTok divestiture would ... address one specific issue: control over a dominant communication platform by a hostile foreign superpower with a well-documented interest in influencing domestic politics in the U.S. and other countries.' theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

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Montana's Republican nominee for U.S. Senate portraying Chuck Schumer as a puppetmaster, things are going great on the antisemitism front.

Montana's Republican nominee for U.S. Senate portraying Chuck Schumer as a puppetmaster, things are going great on the antisemitism front.
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