Washington, D.C. – U.S. Congressman Matt Gaetz (R-Florida) sent a letter to Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on July 31 asking whether his department, with its pattern of coercion of and collusion with Big Tech, assisted with the social media “erasure” or discussion of search results for the July 13, 2024, assassination attempt on President Donald Trump.
Facebook and Google have already acknowledged censoring both the “raised fist” photograph of President Trump and the public’s ability to search for information about the assassination attempt. DHS has been the subject of committee hearings and subpoenas in the House and has been conclusively proved to have interfered in the 2020 Presidential election.
Full text of Congressman Gaetz’s letter to Secretary Mayorkas can be found here and below.
Additionally, exclusive coverage of the letter by Daily Caller can be found here.
Letter Text:
Secretary Mayorkas:
As you are no doubt aware, your department is embroiled in two ongoing controversies. First, a pattern of coercion of and collusion with social media companies to censor information and interfere, unconstitutionally, with the 2020 Presidential election. Specifically, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has been the subject of House investigations, which have uncovered serious and troubling, and as yet uncorrected, actions by that component of your department.
Second, the Director of the United States Secret Service (USSS) recently tendered her resignation due to the failures of that agency to adequately service their protectee, Donald Trump, who was the target of the most serious assassination attempt on a United States political figure in a generation or more on July 13, 2024. On July 29, 2024, an unnamed USSS counter sniper emailed your department personnel complaints that the USSS is not being cleaned up and that the resignation of a single high-level supervisor was not adequate to address deep structural concerns.
These two major scandals at DHS have a single focal point right now, which is the apparent Big Tech censorship and the digital “erasing” of the assassination attempt on Donald Trump. Numerous news outlets have reported various irregularities in search results and home pages. For example, Facebook has acknowledged that it censored an authentic photograph of Donald Trump as “false information” and Google has acknowledged that it excludes and does not autocomplete results for searches relating to the Trump assassination attempt.
Given your department’s self-interest in keeping this story under wraps and your department’s history of strong-arming tech organizations to censor, please provide my office with the following information by August 16, 2024:
- All communications, whatever the form, between any DHS personnel (including detailees) and Facebook, Meta, Twitter, or Google from July 13, 2024, to July 31, 2024, referencing or relating to the assassination attempt on President Trump on July 13, 2024; and
- Any communications between DHS personnel and any other federal or state government employee from July 13, 2024, to July 31, 2024, relating to online commentary and the assassination attempt on President Trump on July 13, 2024.
Sincerely,
Matt Gaetz
Member of Congress
Quite a request. Who will follow up and make sure questions are answered ? An intrepid reporter could ask candidates Trump and Harris about this could they not ? Maybe shout it out when a candidate is passing by within earshot ? Seems like a big deal.
This is the only thing that counts….Crooks is simply a distraction…he had nothing to do with the attack on President Trump….What most probably happened on the attempt on President Trump’s life? There is a massive rush to blame the kid, the incompetence of the local police and now the focus on the Democrats to find a viable Presidential candidate and the Olympics. Why is there no focus on the multiple proven reports of 3 shooters? Even CNN reported it. Very early sound forensics reported that there were at least 3 shooters with the first 3 shots were from a high powered gun much more powerful than the gun the kid had. The gun the shot that hit President Trump came from that gun. Also a photo taken by a photographer standing right in front of President Trump, with a high speed lens caught the trajectory, The shot was traveling up from a position well below President Trump. It could not have come from the roof. I could easily have come from the first floor of the building the kid was on. The next 4 shots came from a gun like the kid had and the last, from it is assumed, was the shot that took the kid out. There is another mystery….a crime scene blood analyst indicated that if the kid had been hit with a bullet from the sniper on the other side of the podium, the blood splatter would have been massive and wide spread…It was not. Also the body would have been more mangled and his teeth would have been behind his body not ahead…..this suggests the last shot sound was from someone on the roof behind the kid, who shot him at close range to remove a potential onsite witness. There is now a new video that shows the police/FBI and others with guns pushing the attendees out of the area around the building with Crooks on top 20 minutes or so before the shooting. The video also captures all of the shots. The video suggests that the sniper shots , the first three come from either the lower level of the building or from someone just out side on the non-visible side.?? I hope the Congressional investigation follows the readily available facts and not get caught up in gas-lighting by the mainstream media and some agencies.
Mayorkas, the malfeasant dictator must go to prison now.
Dear Congressman Gaetz,
I have included, per your request, a number of correspondences between Homeland Security and various tech companies demonstrating that we have consistently attempted to strongarm tech companies into clamping down on any subject relevant to the former president’s unfortunate incident.
All the best,
Alejandro Mayorkas
(This happened in one of my recent waking dreams where politicians were compelled to tell the truth.)