The Republican National Committee is going to war with Twitter.
On Friday, the RNC filed a complaint with the Federal Election Committee claiming Twitter violated federal campaign finance law by suppressing a New York Post expose released on Wednesday that highlighted communications between Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden and an executive of the corrupt Ukrainian oil and gas company Burisma Holdings.
Twitter removed the ability of users to post the article to its platform and suspended several top Republican accounts, including White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany, for sharing the piece. The RNC’s complaint argues the suppression of the article was done “for the clear purpose” of protecting Biden’s campaign for president.
“Respondent is engaged in arguably the most brazen and unprecedented act of media suppression in this country’s history, and it is doing so for the clear purpose of supporting the Biden campaign,” the complaint read.
The complaint argued that by suppressing the New York Post, which played up claims that President Trump has routinely made about Biden’s alleged overseas business deals, Twitter had made a “corporate in-kind contribution” to the Biden campaign.
“Democrat media consultants can only dream of such abilities,” the complaint read. “Through its ad hoc, partisan oppression of media critical of Biden, [Twitter] is making illegal, corporate in-kind contributions as it provides unheard-of media services for Joe Biden’s campaign.”
The RNC complaint accused Twitter of “acting as Biden’s media operative” and that the Biden campaign would “gladly pay a significant price” to garner the type of “proactive steps” that Twitter has taken to moderate information critical of Biden’s candidacy.
The complaint also outlined the “revolving door” between Twitter and the Democratic Party. It noted that the senior communications manager at Twitter is Sen. Kamala Harris’s former press secretary and added that Twitter’s public policy director had recently left the company to be a part of Biden’s transition team.
Senate Judiciary Committee Republicans announced a hearing with Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey next week, and ranking House member Jim Jordan listed several pieces of information he wanted clarification on regarding the decision to censor the article, including whether or not there was communication between Twitter and the Democratic Party before the decision was made to delete the story from the platform.
