Senate Judiciary Committee to Subpoena Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey Over Blocked Hunter Biden Posts

The Senate Judiciary Committee will issue a subpoena to Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey after the New York Post’s reports on Hunter Biden were blocked, saying that the act may constitute election interference with 19 days away from Nov. 3.

“This is election interference and we are 19 days out from an election,” said Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) to reporters on Thursday, adding that the Judiciary Committee “will issue a subpoena to Jack Dorsey” for next Friday, Oct. 23. Cruz and Chairman Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said they will hold a vote on issuing a subpoena.

Cruz accused Dorsey and Twitter of “abusing their corporate power” to censor the New York Post’s reporting on purported Hunter Biden emails that detail lucrative deals involving China’s largest private energy company. Dorsey on Wednesday night apologized after another NY Post report about emails that allege Hunter Biden introduced Vice President Joe Biden to a Ukrainian businessman was locked.

Both Cruz and Graham said they aren’t sure whether the NY Post’s reporting “is true,” but they stressed that it is about censorship.

Graham pointed out that discredited information from a dossier compiled by former UK spy Christopher Steele was not blocked by Twitter. Meanwhile, regarding the allegations that President Donald Trump colluded with Russia, “nobody blocked that,” he said.

Social media firms, he argued, “have a dominance in our lives … they’re publishers” akin to newspapers or television broadcasters. But Twitter’s recent actions “crystalizes the problem” of censorship ” better than anything for the American people,” he said.

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