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The White House's Twitter Blather Bites Them as the 5th Circuit Slaps Down Biden's Vaccine Mandate

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As RedState reported, the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals refused to lift the stay on Joe Biden’s vaccine mandate for private businesses last night. That came after the court gave the administration a week to respond to the challenge that the “emergency” OSHA regulation produces “grave” constitutional questions. Obviously, the judges were not swayed.

But while the decision itself is the biggest news here, inside the court’s decision is something that’s just amazing. Let me set it up first, though.

Ronald Klain, who serves as Biden’s chief of staff, has this uncontrollable habit of retweeting wildly partisan messages. That’s most often manifested itself in him pushing tweets from crazed Washington Post columnist Jennifer Rubin. But he branches out, and in one instance he retweeted MSNBC’s Stephanie Ruhle, another rabid liberal who routinely puts out terrible takes.

Well, the 5th Circuit actually cited that instance as evidence against the White House.

That produced lots of gnashing of teeth. How could a court possibly use tweets as a partial basis for a ruling? Why, that would be absolutely horrendous and unheard of, right? Tweets and retweets are not to be taken seriously, after all.

I note the whining about the court’s choice to include Klain’s retweet in their decision, because I find the hypocrisy to be absolutely hilarious. Remember, this is the same left that spent years insisting that Donald Trump’s retweets and tweets constituted obstruction of justice. We had an entire special counsel where Robert Mueller’s final report cited dozens of Trump tweets. Yet, when the tables turn, suddenly it’s out of bounds to cite Twitter activity.

Of course, the court is also correct in its assessment, at least in my view. Klain clearly only retweets things he agrees with, and the mandate, from the beginning, has represented a dishonest, unnecessary workaround to do something that is likely unconstitutional. An emergency rule that takes two months to formulate and another two months to go into effect? Give us all a break, never mind that the vaccines don’t stop people from spreading COVID-19, which blows up the entire justification for mandates and providing proof of vaccination.

Still, it’s funny to see something the left hung their hat on for four years now be denigrated because it’s being used against them.

The Rewriting of History Begins After Bombshell Steele Dossier Revelations

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Over the last two weeks, the Steele Dossier, which was pushed for years as a credible source of dirt on Donald Trump, has been completely discredited. While it’s been obvious for a long time that the dossier was unverified and full of false conspiracy theories, John Durham’s indictment has given us an eye into exactly how the sausage was made and put the last nail in the coffin.

Igor Danchenko, now indicted for lying multiple times to the FBI, was the chief source for Christopher Steele, but it was a Hillary Clinton operative who actually fed Danchenko many of the salacious claims.

And with those revelations have come the ritual rewriting of history. The Washington Post has begun to delete parts of past articles that discussed the Steele Dossier.

The Washington Post on Friday took the unusual step of correcting and removing large portions of two articles, published in March 2017 and February 2019, that had identified a Belarusian American businessman as a key source of the “Steele dossier,” a collection of largely unverified reports that claimed the Russian government had compromising information about then-candidate Donald Trump.

The newspaper’s executive editor, Sally Buzbee, said The Post could no longer stand by the accuracy of those elements of the story. It had identified businessman Sergei Millian as “Source D,” the unnamed figure who passed on the most salacious allegation in the dossier to its principal author, former British intelligence officer Christopher Steele.

Of course, what the Post didn’t do was reveal who their fake news sources were from their original reporting. You’d think that when a source lies to you, that would be grounds to expose them in order to prevent it from happening again. But doing that would be too much of an admission of defeat for the Post, and a very public one at that.

Instead, we are getting relatively quiet editing of years old articles to make it seem as if the nation’s second-largest newspaper didn’t completely botch this story. That way, years from now, there’s no real record of their failure for people who are otherwise ill-informed. There’s something really sketchy about that, especially since Post reporters literally won Pulitzers for their garbage reporting on Trump and Russia.

Will anyone in the media pay a price? The answer is obviously no. For most of Trump’s presidency, the Trump-Russia hoax dominated the news. Journalists claimed bombshell after bombshell, only to have their stories and lying sources fall flat time and again. But their mission was accomplished. Trump is no longer president and his term was severely handicapped by a witch-hunt special counsel. That was always the goal, not accurate reporting.

In the end, nothing changes except a few articles long after the damage is already done.