Members on the Record (Automated) for Sat November 26, 2022

Israel - Palestine

Torres (D-NY-15) 11/25/2022: Twitter thread – “Hamas and the Taliban are terrorist organizations. Period. There is such a thing as objective reality. Link to quoted tweetAre Hamas and the Taliban terrorist organisations? “Depends on who you talk to,” say Whoopi Goldberg and Sunny Hostin. #Terrorism | #TheView (Whoopi Goldberg: Hamas, Taliban as terror orgs 'depends who you talk to'... | m.jpost.com) If you deny the terrorism of Hamas or the Taliban, trying testing your hypothesis and living under the rule of either one. Something tells me the experiment wouldn't end well.”

Iran

Merkley (D-OR) 11/25/2022: Tweet – “I support @UN_HRC's special session to address the alarming state of human rights in Iran. The Iranian regime's human rights violations against protestors are unacceptable—good to see the U.N. take this step to establish facts and condemn the regime's violence. Link to quoted tweetThe @UN Human Rights Council is holding a Special Session to address “the deteriorating #HumanRights situation in the Islamic Republic of #Iran”. 🏛️@UNGeneva 🗓️Thursday 24 November ⏲️10 am Geneva time 🖥️The meeting will be streamed live on @UN_HRC+(UN Web TV | UN Web TV) 👉#SS35 (Link to twitter.com)”

Murphy (D-CT) 11/25/2022: Tweet – “I'm not a diehard soccer fan, but it felt like if you watched the game and didn't know anything about the history of the teams, the U.S. looked like the better side. U.S. v. Iran for all the marbles! #USMNT #ENGUSA”

Iraq

Gallego (D-AZ-7) 11/25/2022: Tweet – “@skehoemusic You are pretty stupid. Link to reply@RubenGallego Thanks for the insight into the level of your intellect, traitor @skehoemusic What is the population of Iraq?”

Kuwait

Slotkin (D-MI-8) 11/25/2022: Retweet of @VetAffairsDems – “Happy Thanksgiving!   This year, Chairman @RepMarkTakano, @RepColinAllred, @RepSlotkin, and @RepKatiePorter served Thanksgiving meals to servicemembers stationed at Camp Arifjan in Kuwait – a small gesture of gratitude on behalf of the United States. Link to image”

Jewish, Anti-semitism

Beyer (D-VA-8) 11/25/2022: Tweet – “Donald Trump, the leader of the Republican Party, had dinner at Mar-A-Lago this week with white supremacist and Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes: Link to quoted tweetAccording to a source, far-right extremist Nick Fuentes was spotted with Kanye West at Mar-a-Lago. West tweeted last night he met with Trump at the club. West and Fuentes were also seen together at Miami airport.”

Beyer (D-VA-8) 11/25/2022: Retweet of @letsgomathias – “Fuentes as vile as they come. Explicitly racist & antisemitic, praised Hitler, says n word, marched w/ Nazis in C'ville, cheered on J6 rioters at the Capitol, Holocaust denier, advocates political violence/killing lawmakers… Now having dinner w Trump, de facto leader of GOP”

Cheney (R-WY-0) 11/25/2022: Tweet – “First, @RepMTG and now, @realDonaldTrump hanging around with this anti-Semitic, pro-Putin, white supremacist. This isn't complicated. It's indefensible. Link to quoted tweetAs Rep Marjorie Taylor Greene and Rep Paul Gosar speak at this white supremacist, anti-Semitic, pro-Putin event, silence by Republican Party leaders is deafening and enabling. All Americans should renounce this garbage and reject the Putin wing of the GOP now. (Link to twitter.com)”

Evans (D-PA-3) 11/26/2022: Retweet of @BillPascrell – “The leader of the republican party donald trump had dinner with a leading neo nazi and Holocaust denier and not a single prominent republican has condemned their leader not one.”

Gallego (D-AZ-7) 11/25/2022: Tweet – “But why are you even meeting with Ye, who also is anti-Semitic? Link to quoted tweetNEW: Statement from fmr President Trump in response to our story about his dinner w Ye and Fuentes: "Kanye West very much wanted to visit Mar-a-Lago. Our dinner meeting was intended to be Kanye and me only, but he arrived with a guest whom I had never met and knew nothing about." (Link to twitter.com)”

Gallego (D-AZ-7) 11/25/2022: Retweet of @Liz_Cheney – “First, @RepMTG and now, @realDonaldTrump hanging around with this anti-Semitic, pro-Putin, white supremacist. This isn't complicated. It's indefensible. Link to quoted tweet”

Kinzinger (R-IL-16) 11/25/2022: Retweet of @Liz_Cheney – “First, @RepMTG and now, @realDonaldTrump hanging around with this anti-Semitic, pro-Putin, white supremacist. This isn't complicated. It's indefensible. Link to quoted tweet”

Kinzinger (R-IL-16) 11/25/2022: Tweet – “Hey @Liz_Cheney, has @GOPLeader condemned this yet? Or nah? Link to quoted tweetFirst, @RepMTG and now, @realDonaldTrump hanging around with this anti-Semitic, pro-Putin, white supremacist. This isn't complicated. It's indefensible. (Link to twitter.com)”

Krishnamoorthi (D-IL-8) 11/25/2022: Tweet – “The far-right's antisemitic and anti-LGBTQ rhetoric is only leading to more violence. It must be condemned by everyone and made clear that such bigotry has no place in our society. Right-wing influencers and media double down on anti-LGBTQ rhetoric in wake of Colorado shooting... | nbcnews.com”

Murphy (D-CT) 11/25/2022: Tweet – “Most Republicans will say zero about their leader meeting with a white supremacist leader. (a taste of Fuentes: immigration "is a Jewish subversion of the American creed. The Founders never intended for America to be a refugee camp for nonwhite people.”) Trump's Latest Dinner Guest: Nick Fuentes, White Supremacist... | nytimes.com”

Murphy (D-CT) 11/25/2022: Tweet – “Yes. Link to quoted tweetTo me, the story here isn't how a prominent pusher of hate against Jewish people ended up at a table with Trump. The story is the response of so many so far in a party that could nominate him: a shrug or indifference. All as many shrug or ignore his nods toward Q Anon conspiracy.”

Pascrell (D-NJ-9) 11/25/2022: Retweet of @RepDonBeyer – “Donald Trump, the leader of the Republican Party, had dinner at Mar-A-Lago this week with white supremacist and Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes: Link to quoted tweet”

Pascrell (D-NJ-9) 11/25/2022: Tweet – “The leader of the republican party donald trump had dinner with a leading neo nazi and Holocaust denier and not a single prominent republican has condemned their leader not one.”

Pascrell (D-NJ-9) 11/26/2022: Tweet – “It's been nearly 24 hours since we learned the leader of the republican party donald trump had dinner with a leading neo nazi and Holocaust denier and not a single prominent republican has condemned their leader - not one.”

Schatz (D-HI) 11/25/2022: Retweet of @costareports – “Having tracked Fuentes for years, let me note this as a reporter: he is well-known inside the GOP. People can pretend otherwise but professionals who work in the party are highly aware of how his white supremacy and anti-Semitism influences some voters, esp on fringe platforms.”

Spanberger (D-VA-7) 11/26/2022: Twitter thread – “This man — a virulent antisemitic, racist, white nationalist, and sexist Holocaust denier — just had dinner with the former President of the United States. 1/4 Link to quoted tweetThis is who Donald Trump just had dinner with: “This is going to be the most racist, sexist, anti-semitic, holocaust-denying, speech in all of Dallas this weekend!” Elon Musk is also lifting his permanent twitter ban because free speech. (Link to twitter.com) His white nationalist diatribes are horrendous, breed hate, sow division, and must be denounced by anyone and everyone.  Here he is threatening Jewish Americans — and yet he had dinner with the former president. 2/4 Link to quoted tweet“The Jews had better start being nice to people like us, because what comes out of this is going to get a lot uglier for them…” Meet neo-Nazi Nick Fuentes. Fuentes was President Trump's dinner guest at Mar-a-Lago this week along with Kanye West. (Link to twitter.com) There is absolutely no place in our society for grotesque, racist, antisemitic, white nationalist ideologies — especially not at the dinner table with a former U.S. President. 3/4 In support of the people I represent, the Commonwealth I love, and the country I serve, I denounce this hatred and welcome others to do the same. 4/4”

Swalwell (D-CA-15) 11/26/2022: Tweet – ““I really like this guy. He gets me.” Just the leader of the Republican Party praising a proud Anti-Semitic Holocaust denier. Yet not one peep from @GOPLeader Kevin McCarthy. His silence is his complicity. Link to quoted tweetFuentes also told Trump that he would crush potential 2024 Republican rivals in a primary, including Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. Trump asked for Fuentes' opinion on other candidates as well. Trump at one point turned to Ye and said, "I really like this guy. He gets me.”

Torres (D-NY-15) 11/25/2022: Tweet – “Donald Trump and Kanye West have befriended Nick Fuentes, who promises “the most racist, sexist, Antisemitic, Holocaust-denying speech in all of Dallas this weekend.” Tell me who your friends are, and I will tell you who you are. Link to video”

Torres (D-NY-15) 11/25/2022: Retweet of @RitchieTorres – “Kanye West is promoting a video that features Nick Fuentes—an avowed white supremacist who denies the Holocaust and demonizes people of color. This is dangerous, @elonmusk.”

Torres (D-NY-15) 11/25/2022: Tweet – “Nick Fuentes harbors an Antisemitism so unabashed and unhinged that it shocks the conscience. Anyone who normalizes Fuentes should be disqualified from public life. Link to quoted tweet“The Jews had better start being nice to people like us, because what comes out of this is going to get a lot uglier for them…” Meet neo-Nazi Nick Fuentes. Fuentes was President Trump's dinner guest at Mar-a-Lago this week along with Kanye West. (Link to twitter.com)”

Afghanistan

Malliotakis (R-NY-11) 11/26/2022: Tweet – “15 months ago today 13 American soldiers were killed in @POTUS's botched Afghanistan withdrawal by an ISIS-K fighter released from our base by the Taliban. Democrats refused to demand answers about this preventable attack. @HouseGOP has not forgotten & will get accountability. Link to image”

Malliotakis (R-NY-11) 11/26/2022: Tweet – “.⁦@HouseGOP⁩ will pursue truth & transparency to get Americans the answers & accountability they want re: the disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal that killed 13 soldiers 15 months ago today, our deadly open border, COVID & the Biden family's shady foreign associations. Link to video”

Mast (R-FL-18) 11/25/2022: Tweet – “Well deserved! I'm incredibly grateful to the thousands of troops who served with commitment and composure during the withdrawal from Afghanistan, despite being dealt the worst possible hand by Joe Biden. Air Force crew that delivered baby during Afghanistan evacuation to be awarded Distinguished Flying Cross... | foxnews.com”

Meijer (R-MI-3) 11/25/2022: Twitter thread – “The interim IEA government continues to backslide into the same violence and extremism that made them international pariahs pre-9/11. If IEA leaders like @AnasHaqqani313 want to lead Afghanistan to strength in the 21st century, they must put a stop to this barbarism. (1/2) Link to quoted tweetThe Taliban treatment of women and girls in Afghanistan may amount to a crime against humanity and should be investigated and prosecuted under international law, a U.N. team of experts said Friday. (UN experts denounce Taliban treatment of women as crime... | apnews.com) I remain hopeful that the good people of Afghanistan can live in peace and prosperity, but recent actions by the IEA are only confirming the worst fears of the international community. Retrograde behavior helps the argument of all anti-Afghanistan forces. (2/2) cc @Zabehulah_M33 @QaharBalkhi”

Other - Middle East

Slotkin (D-MI-8) 11/26/2022: Tweet – “Such a small world — and so many Michiganders to feed, even far away in the Middle East. To Austin's mom: you did good. He asked for ALL the vegetables. Link to video”