Chairman Jordan: In the name of combating alleged misinformation regarding COVID-19 and the 2020 election, the National Science Foundation has been issuing multi-million dollar grants to universities and non-profit research teams, to develop artificial intelligence powered censorship and propaganda tools.
Chairman Jordan: AI, which can censor in real-time, and at-scale, should scare us all.
Plaskett: Just since our last hearing…former President Trump has made more terrifying statements on the weaponization of the federal government should he have a second term. Donald Trump has said he would, "act like a dictator on day one of any second term." He has said he would proudly claim full credit for overturning Roe v Wade…he's argued in court, as a legal argument, that he would have full immunity as president, even if he ordered the assassination of individual Americans. He says he is going to lay off thousands of non-political career diplomats, replacing experienced government experts that serve with distinction, with individuals whose main quality is passing a loyalty test to him. He has vowed to appoint a special prosecutor just to go after Joe Biden, his entire family, threatening them multiple times, because he doesn't like them, and they are a threat to him, not to our country.
[Plaskett PANIC yet again]
Plaskett: Donald Trump believes as president that he can deploy the American Military, on American soil, to attack an American target, an individual, which, in this hypothetical example, has not declared any form of hostility towards the American state itself, but is merely who the president believes is not his friend or agrees with him…this is the craziest, illegal, dictatorial, despotic, demagoguery, autocratic crap I've ever heard.
[PANIC intensifies]
Fang [investigative journalist]: I have profiled the various private contractors that began by spying on behalf of the FBI during the War on Terror, but now utilize artificial intelligence to spy on conservative, anti-vaccine mandate activists.
Eisen: I urge the committee, with all respect, to focus on the most imminent threat of that weaponization now facing us as a nation. Donald Trump's record of weaponizing the government, and his promises to double-down should he return to power.
Massie: Did you see the White House executive order on artificial intelligence, the statement that was put out? Basically they're trying to ban AI, but I like to say, if AI is banned, only the criminals will have AI, and the criminals, in fact, will be inside the government.
Connolly: There's a monstrous effort going on as we speak, to structure a second term for Donald J. Trump. Those proposals, interalia, include, replacing up to fifty thousand federal employees with Trump loyalists…invocation of the Insurrection Act on day one, to quash public protests against him.
Wasserman-Schultz: Our MAGA loyalist colleagues shamelessly ignore Donald Trump's ample record, and mounting threats, to turn our executive branch into his personal vendetta buzzsaw.
Lukianoff: We asked ChatGPT to write a poem about why representative Jim Jordan is the best politician in the country., It refused to do that. We ran this for every single member of the committee, and it refused to do this only for republicans…it only would write a generic one for Matt Gaetz or Harriet Hageman.
Eisen: Just this morning, as we were gaveling the hearing in, the DC Circuit…rejected…the absurd idea that an American president could order SEAL Team Six to assassinate a political opponent, and be immunized from the rule of law.
[With all the recent talk of SEAL Team Six, I have to wonder if Hussein or Biden attempted to order them to assassinate Donald Trump]
Garamendi: [President Trump] is reportedly planning to use the Insurrection Act, a law that gives the president nearly unchecked power to use military as a domestic police force, to target those who publicly protest against him, presumably using their free speech.
[does protester 'free speech' include burning down police stations, churches, and attacking police, as blm and antifa terrorists actually did?]
Plaskett: The democrats are not worried about Trump taking down speech if he's reelected, we're worried about him taking down people if he is reelected.
[Plaskett and the other democrat state criminals are beyond terrified of President Trump]
Plaskett: A recent report claims that Trump intends to appoint a loyalist to head the DOJ's Office of Legal Council, who will write an opinion dramatically expanding presidential immunity…can you explain to the American public what that would mean to our democracy?
Eisen: It would mean danger. Grave danger.
>just watch some auditor videos
Most of the 'auditors' are nothing more than trolls attempting to get a reaction that they can use to get views, and hoping to incite police into doing something they can sue over.
Garcia: When the twice-impeached, four times indicted former president, talks about being a dictator, I really don't think that's a joke. I think he's for real. For four years, Trump turned the federal government into a horrifying weapon for his own personal gain, to serve his racist goals, punish his enemies, and to attack reality…he put children in cages, and he weaponized ICE and immigration, to a point of instituting mass deportations, sending ICE to round up immigrants at schools, hospitals. He traumatized those children for a lifetime.
Criminals have been awarded ridiculously high damages as a result of being slightly injured during a lawful arrest, in which they were resisting or otherwise fighting the police.
Plaskett: Trump has said he plans to make all federal career employees, fifty thousand, fireable, at will, by the president, and that this will allow him to gut those agencies career experts, and fill the position with individuals who will do what he requests…what would be the impact on our national security if Trump were to fire large swaths of our experienced workforce, and fill those positions with largely unqualified MAGA loyalists?
Eisen: If you fire people by the tens of thousands, career, dedicated, non-partisan, independent professionals, who built a body of expertise over a long period of time, you're leaving our national security undefended…if we impose this loyalty test, the mass-firings…you will be eroding the independence of judgement, jeopardizing all of our lives; jeopardizing the life of everybody in this room.
Hageman: The only president who I am aware of who actually assassinated American citizens, was President Obama, so maybe the ranking member [Plaskett] should revisit her history books…as far 'kids in cages', again, that was President Obama. Several former Obama administration officials took to social media and news outlets last month to explain a gallery of years-old photos that showed immigrant children sleeping in shoddy conditions at a government run holding facility in Arizona. The images, which the Associated Press first published in 2014, during the Obama administration, resurfaced recently for reasons that remain unclear, and quickly prompted viral outrage on Twitter.
Eisen was frantically looking stuff up on his laptop prior to being asked about a tweet the Biden administration had removed by RFK Jr., about Hank Aaron's death being suspicious, having died soon after getting vaccinated. He then cited, actually yelling out, headlines of articles that insisted Aaron did not die from the vaccine.