cruz wants unilateral subpoena powers... the White House is telling the rest of the committee to vote NO

[butters]

gimme all the power cruz will never sit well with trump's own need to be the top dog

of course, ol' elon might be pulling some strings here, too

The committee was scheduled to vote on the proposal during a markup session this week, though that meeting was delayed due to attendance issues, as Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) was sick. But now the White House is reportedly urging Republicans to vote against giving Cruz unilateral subpoena powers, which it believes he will use to bring tech executives before the committee who helped Trump win the 2024 election.

According to Punchbowl reporter Andrew Desiderio, one unnamed Commerce Committee aide pointed out that the Trump White House was notably silent when Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) — who chairs the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Government Affairs — sought similar powers. And Desiderio noted that Cruz "wants to go after Big Tech in his new role as Commerce chair" while "Trump has embraced tech CEOs."

"I believe Big Tech censorship poses the single greatest threat to free speech in this country, and the committee will use every available tool to engage in that oversight," Cruz told Punchbowl.

 

[MajorRewrite]

Doddering Donnie is completely transactional. The tech billionaires bribed him with millions, so he will protect them.

Hey, MAGAs … if you want Donnie to look out for your interests, you better start paying him!

 

[RobDownSouth]

Cassidy Hutchinson turned on Donald Trump and testified about his lack of action on Jan 6th.

Last week. House Speaker Mike Johnson announced that Congress would put Hutchinson on trial for "Crimes Against Trump".
....a few short days later the House Speaker's office announced oops, sorry no trial for young Ms. Hutchinson! Our bad!

Why?

Mike Johnson faced a revolt from House Republican representatives about this!

What?

The lurid details: last year then-Congressman Matt Gaetz showed his frat house....errr....Congressional buddies an iPhone video purportedly of himself "finger banging" Miss Cassidy Hutchinson. The two were briefly "special friends" for a hot minute, until Gaetz' allegations leaked. Hutchinson has, of course, denied this and ever doing ANYTHING physical with him!

Wait!
What does this have to do with not prosecuting the traitor-to-Trump Hutchinson?

Well, more than six and less than 10 married male congressmen notified Hutchinson that Gaetz was showing sex videos of her.
Good for them!

And all of them asked for the opportunity to do that....and more....with her.
Not so good for them!

And they stupidly all sent these request to her official archived White House email account.
Really not so good for them!

An account which is subjected to review by Hutchinson's defense lawyers as part of the legal discovery process.
This is terrible....for those poor Congressmen!

Really bad optics, no?
These Emails must NEVAR see the light of day!

So more than six and less than ten Republican congressman told Johnson they would not vote for a "show trial".
Praise G-d! Our Country is SAVED!

 

[Politruk]

Cassidy Hutchinson turned on Donald Trump and testified about his lack of action on Jan 6th.

Last week. House Speaker Mike Johnson announced that Congress would put Hutchinson on trial for "Crimes Against Trump".
....a few short days later the House Speaker's office announced oops, sorry no trial for young Ms. Hutchinson! Our bad!

Why?

Mike Johnson faced a revolt from House Republican representatives about this!

What?

The lurid details: last year then-Congressman Matt Gaetz showed his frat house....errr....Congressional buddies an iPhone video purportedly of himself "finger banging" Miss Cassidy Hutchinson. The two were briefly "special friends" for a hot minute, until Gaetz' allegations leaked. Hutchinson has, of course, denied this and ever doing ANYTHING physical with him!

Wait!
What does this have to do with not prosecuting the traitor-to-Trump Hutchinson?

Well, more than six and less than 10 married male congressmen notified Hutchinson that Gaetz was showing sex videos of her.
Good for them!

And all of them asked for the opportunity to do that....and more....with her.
Not so good for them!

And they stupidly all sent these request to her official archived White House email account.
Really not so good for them!

An account which is subjected to review by Hutchinson's defense lawyers as part of the legal discovery process.
This is terrible....for those poor Congressmen!

Really bad optics, no?
These Emails must NEVAR see the light of day!

So more than six and less than ten Republican congressman told Johnson they would not vote for a "show trial".
Praise G-d! Our Country is SAVED!

What does that have to do with Cruz?

 

[RobDownSouth]

What does that have to do with Cruz?

Subpoena power.

 

[DeluxAuto]

Lyin' Teddy Cruz?

 

[HisArpy]

Cruz is just trying to catch the spotlight again.

 

[LLCox]

Teddy defends Nazi salute but not his wife.