Rep. Daniel Goldman (D., N.Y.), who pushed the Russian “collusion” hoax, blasted Thursday that Breitbart News political editor Emma Jo Morris was a witness for the U.S. House Select Committee on Weaponization of Federal Hearings, attacking her as a “non-edge” journalist in a bizarre 30-second statement.
After Rep. Jerry Connolly (D., Virginia) accused Morris’ fellow witness, Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., of attending the hearings for “cynical reasons,” he gave time to freshman Goldman, saying only that he would target Morris without revealing her name.
Thank you, Distinguished Gentlemen of Virginia. I don’t have much time to delve into the question, but just a word to my former prosecutor colleagues across the aisle, I know very well that journalists’ opinions don’t really prove anything, and bringing in extremist reporters to provide evidence for an investigation is a desperate attempt to satisfy conspiracy theories, and I back off.
Morris is present to testify about the censorship of the infamous “Hunter Biden’s Hell Laptop” article she said at the hearing. new york post He was not given a chance to answer Goldman’s accusations ahead of the 2020 election. was A prominent figure who spread the false allegation that former President Donald Trump colluded with Russia.
After a short break, Goldman used his time to strangely claim that the article had been censored because it had a lock on it. new york post‘s Twitter account was posted for at least 12 days, garnering even more attention.
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“And there is no doubt that this article has received far more attention thanks to the controversy than if it had been published without any controversy,” he said.
This sentiment ignores that public perception of the article’s legitimacy at the time was arguably heavily influenced by Big Tech censorship.
