Rep. Dan Goldman Slapped With House Ethics Complaint and DOJ Referral Over Whistleblower Slurs
Susie Moore
In his brief stint in Congress thus far, Rep. Dan Goldman (D-NY) has distinguished himself as one of the Democrat pit bulls on the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government. In the March hearing regarding the Twitter Files, with journalists Matt Taibbi and Michael Shellenberger testifying as witnesses, Goldman went on a smarm offensive — a brief refresher on that performance:
Goldman got another shot at questioning, which he snarkily reclaimed when Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) seemingly forgot to return to him, using that segment to relitigate 2016 and the Mueller indictments. When Taibbi pushed back on the premise of his questioning, Goldman barked, “Let me move on. That’s how this works — you should know that by now!” He then quibbled with Shellenberger over what constituted “direction” from the FBI to Twitter to remove posts or accounts before detouring to complaining to Jordan about the committee not discussing Republican book banning and the horrific misdeeds of one Donald J. Trump.
For his grand finale, Goldman bemoaned the fact that the committee was there discussing Twitter — “Twitter!” — contending that “Even with Twitter, you cannot find actual evidence of any direct government censorship of any lawful speech.” When Jordan offered an example of a White House official contacting Twitter two days after Biden assumed office to request a tweet be taken down, they got into a back-and-forth about whether it involved “lawful speech.” When Jordan didn’t immediately have the tweet handy, Goldman snidely replied, “Oh, shocking.” The tweet in question, it turns out, was from Robert Kennedy, Jr. regarding Hank Aaron’s death after he received the vaccine. (Read: Lawful but contradicting the preferred narrative.)
It would appear that Mr. Goldman, after chiding the witnesses for not having committed the Ukraine Impeachment Report and Mueller indictments to memory, hadn’t bothered to do his own homework.
Goldman also managed to wind up with egg on his face after he went after our Townhall colleague Julio Rosas in May. (Obnoxious Tool Daniel Goldman Attacks Julio Rosas, Gets Set on Fire in Response.)
But speaking of Twitter, Goldman may have landed himself in a bit of hot water over his own (mis)use of the platform by comments he made following the May 18th hearing where FBI whistleblowers Garret O’Boyle, Steve Friend, and Marcus Allen testified.
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