Forbes Breaking News At today’s House Weaponization of the Federal Government Committee hearing, Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) questioned Elliot Williams, Principal at the Raben Group.
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Elliot Williams should work on his "I'm too stupid to understand what you mean" skills
This guy has studied that filthy Hillary Clinton.
Wow, what questioning. Thank you for "bringing the receipts" to tie in relationships. Thank you for direct questioning and staying after clarity in answers.
Matt and Jim have no point and the questions make little sense. Good job Republicans
I fully agree with Gatze
This a good first step! Next step is to charge and send out Charges. Last step is the perpetrator walk for all of us tax payers to see!
Honestly, I have said for 20 years now. To fix government. We have to ban LOBBYISTS, from all political activities. Then term limits. Pass laws like the Nancy Pelosi
If my spouse came home with alot of money which left me in an unexpected state of shock, I would demand to know WHERE he got that money. What he got it for, WHEN did he get it, WHO did he get it from, WHY did he get it, HOW did he get it and did he sign up for some sort of group involvement which guarantees him this money over and over and over as long as he "pledged" some kind of self-sacrifice in order to keep that money rolling in. I probably wouldn't have a problem with it as long as it affected nobody else's life or livelihoods and didn't harm innocent people along the way for his "loyalty" but if it required him turning his very soul into a nefarious greedy reptilian traitorous antiConstitional monster then yeah, I'd give him the choice between his family and his goodness and reputation and soul OR he could take his Illgotten gains and see if the grass is greener over there with "them". And I would hope if he chose the nefarious side that he enjoys his stay at "Hotel California".
For a younger member of congress Gaetz executed a masterful interrogation.
This man is a liar we need to buckle down on these hypocrite Liars
The president of the United States is alive would make you think these pawns that he got working for them are liars you need to clean house
That onion head thinks he is the Moo of a cow.
of all the feigned ignorance I've witnessed in any of these hearings, this has to really top the list. wow. smh. 🤣
Hey Matt,the FBI wants to talk to you about your pedophilia.
He has no shame after they try to steal the election from Joe Biden to their corrupt republican leader, They are corrupt republican who has no moral compass .
These Guys trying to weasel out in this questioning.
A member of the GOP inquiring about someones relationship with a lobbyist! Now that's rich!
They did this with zuckerberg….and nothing happened….nothing will happen.. cause they are pretending to be in outside. Thise Republicans are not on our side.. they are pretending
All of these rules pertaining need to be increased and.toughened .
They either accept decentralization or have their budget slashed by 75%. Seems fair.
Biden: China spy flight is not a major breach!!
– Wide open US airspace and borders! everybody welcome!! Because He always says that Xi Jinping is his old friend!!
He opened the Biden Penn center to have better communication with him, including access to all kinds of documents, even top secrets!
For better relations with CCP, Biden placed former Penn center director Antony Blinken as secretary of state,
– Biden still wants to negotiate with China about John Kerry's plan to buy billions of $ battery and solar panels!
– Biden sent a secret message to Iran's regime through Qatar last month for nuclear talks to make them + CPP rich! Then the Iran regime could give more kamikaze drones to Putin to keep the war longer!
– During the Obama administration, the Committee on Foreign Investment in the US (CFIUS) approved giving control over 'Henniges', (an American maker of anti vibration technologies with military applications), to a Chinese company named Bohai Harvest RST (BHR).
BHR was formed in Nov 2013 by a merger between the Chinese firm 'Bohai Capital' and a company 'Rosemont Seneca' (that was formed in 2009 by Hunter Biden and Chris Heinz, the stepson of former Secretary of State John Kerry and others)!
– Soros and Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan will fund Biden more money for the next election to violate campaign finance rules that limit donations again!
Zuckerberg in 2020 said: I paid this money to secure the election results!!
This lobbyist witness thinks his worn out tactics are working .😆
Is Matt trying to say that, because some government agencies and companies are able to communicate with each other, that something criminal and/nefarious must be happening?
Gaetz is the man. The black guy is using lawyer double speak.
This rep should have been Trump's AG. JS as AG was Trump's only real mistake.
Anna Luna should be the next Republican appointment for AG.
This fbi agent is corrupt. She is a distraction…fake tears.
congress,has become a sit com. vote than all out
I do not and did not make any threats!!!!
I'll be surprised if anything changes, frankly. But well said
Watching a corrupt Congressman who is most famous for paying Joel Greenberg to traffic underaged SeekingArrangement escorts across state lines complain about Trump's FBI is… priceless.
Also charming when the Twitter employees testified that Trump made Twitter take down a whole bunch of tweets, including Chrissy Teigen's tweet calling Trump a “p*ssy a$$ b!tch”
The President of the United States being so thin-skinned that he violated the 1st Amendment by forcing Twitter to take down an insulting Tweet will be forever recorded in history. 'PAB' has become part of the American lexicon.
Central power is what the founding fathers warned about. Central banks, Central/ federal government. One world government/ New world order/ U.N. / WEF…………..
hell yeah…Lets limit the republican party- to
BIG -OILlobby pipeline. … and to financial firmsis forbes hardcore rightwing partisan?
Yes they do 🙏🙏🎈
Bring back Trump!
Need a MAN to fix this mess!
Not a china criminal puppet biden
Hold his feet to thecfire Matt.. Thank you!
Another group of traitors that'll never face actual consequences, they'll just get richer and continue
Hey Matt, if you wanted to hold a PRESS CONFERENCE, you could do that at any time…this is not a press conference, this is suppose to be a Congressional Hearing…I watch these things to hear the WITNESSES speak after being asked COHERENT and COMPETENT questions. How would that man know what Google employees do if he does not work AT Google? Just because they are a client of his, does not mean he knows the inner day to day workings of the company and what their employees are doing. Matt's time was a complete waste of time. Dude is addicted to hearing himself speak…addicted to being the center of attention…guys…this is not a PRESS CONFERENCE…ask questions that make sense and allow the witnesses to answer them in full and then ask followup questions to their answers or ask new questions…but, PLEASE stop with the LONG STATEMENTS…we can see you guys on FOX NEWS saying the same things…this is a HEARING…stop trying to be the STAR and start making sense.
They never get it they shut be in jail. Acting they good for it get them expose the truth
Soros puppet lock him up
Matt is the next vice president we need in a big way.
They're going after the companies instead of going after the FBI?
That makes sense. Republicans don't want to be raided.
What are companies supposed to do when the FBI shows up on their doorstep?
Wake me up when they go after the FBI.
I am loving these hearings! But someone should look into what's happening down there in Mississippi! There are mostly Republicans among the senators and representatives, and what's going on there with the courts is downright embarrassing and wrong!
Is there engagements between the FBI & Banks & federal Reserve system? Honestly providing Americans with trust & back out of people accounts by using different technologies by & collecting data. I just want a direct answer as to why so many businesses had Accounts frozen? that did nothing wrong and was at January 6 in Washington. There are people who have had issues & banks withholding money from customers accounts? because there might be possible connection to January 6th?
As to what Justifies as possible? Based off someone's shopping list? that's skewed data to back up.