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[@MattGertz](/creator/twitter/MattGertz)
"It's bad that the White House is banning WSJ from the trip -- but I think the bigger scandal is that the president of the United States and his entourage are flying to Scotland on the public's dime so he can "open a new 18-hole golf course at his resort.""  
![@MattGertz Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::55376380.png) [@MattGertz](/creator/x/MattGertz) on [X](/post/tweet/1947674547643093431) 2025-07-22 15:06:12 UTC 218.2K followers, 734.1K engagements


"@mehdirhasan Totally disagree. A Harris lawsuit would be bullshit that would lose which is also what would have happened if the Trump lawsuit had gone to trial. Trump was able to extract money from CBS because his administration is an endless series of corrupt abuses of power thats bad"  
![@MattGertz Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::55376380.png) [@MattGertz](/creator/x/MattGertz) on [X](/post/tweet/1944895729199173948) 2025-07-14 23:04:10 UTC 218.2K followers, 5784 engagements


"The bipartisan Senate Select Intelligence Committee -- helmed at the time by Marco Rubio -- on the IC report at the heart of the Gabbard/Trump attacks on Obama: An "impressive accomplishment" "no politically motivated pressure" "a proper representation of the intelligence.""  
![@MattGertz Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::55376380.png) [@MattGertz](/creator/x/MattGertz) on [X](/post/tweet/1947703166159462641) 2025-07-22 16:59:56 UTC 218.2K followers, 31.3K engagements


"The Trump administration assembled a trove of Epstein files which they promised to release didnt do it put out a two-page unsigned memo and have since taken steps to gather more information which are unlikely to succeed rather than release what they have"  
![@MattGertz Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::55376380.png) [@MattGertz](/creator/x/MattGertz) on [X](/post/tweet/1947627490748309676) 2025-07-22 11:59:13 UTC 218.2K followers, 15.8K engagements


"i did not take botox please stop asking me whether i took botox"  
![@MattGertz Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::55376380.png) [@MattGertz](/creator/x/MattGertz) on [X](/post/tweet/1813740255947997326) 2024-07-18 00:59:09 UTC 218.2K followers, 2M engagements


"I think that it's good that the Wall Street Journal published their Trump story despite his pressure; bad that he is now threatening to sue the Journal and Rupert Murdoch; and will be ugly if his administration responds with a corrupt power play a la CBS/Paramount"  
![@MattGertz Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::55376380.png) [@MattGertz](/creator/x/MattGertz) on [X](/post/tweet/1946226414899912836) 2025-07-18 15:11:51 UTC 218.2K followers, 31.6K engagements


"Fox News live mentions today as of noon ET: Biden: XX Epstein: ZERO"  
![@MattGertz Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::55376380.png) [@MattGertz](/creator/x/MattGertz) on [X](/post/tweet/1944794150613692622) 2025-07-14 16:20:32 UTC 218.2K followers, 465.6K engagements


"My understanding based on the CBS News precedent is that this is an illegal interference with the 2024 election that should result in Fox News paying tens of millions of dollars to orgs chosen by Kamala Harris and facing an FCC probe"  
![@MattGertz Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::55376380.png) [@MattGertz](/creator/x/MattGertz) on [X](/post/tweet/1944778463925108944) 2025-07-14 15:18:12 UTC 218.1K followers, 403K engagements


"Donald Trump suing Rupert Murdoch over the Wall Street Journals reporting over his friendship with Jeffrey Epstein thats going to be an interesting one for Fox News"  
![@MattGertz Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::55376380.png) [@MattGertz](/creator/x/MattGertz) on [X](/post/tweet/1946015212928180595) 2025-07-18 01:12:36 UTC 218.1K followers, 51.9K engagements


""Trumps best hope of keeping his supporters happy may very well be increasing the scale and tempo of his authoritarian attacks and that means there will be more to come in the months ahead.""  
![@MattGertz Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::55376380.png) [@MattGertz](/creator/x/MattGertz) on [X](/post/tweet/1947687299715666239) 2025-07-22 15:56:53 UTC 218.2K followers, 11K engagements


"President Trump's lawsuit targeting Rupert Murdoch and the Wall Street Journal is deeply troubling"  
![@MattGertz Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::55376380.png) [@MattGertz](/creator/x/MattGertz) on [X](/post/tweet/1947366734098206747) 2025-07-21 18:43:04 UTC 218.2K followers, 13.9K engagements


"Real missed opportunity for "We can still see the files if Donald Trump has the courage.""  
![@MattGertz Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::55376380.png) [@MattGertz](/creator/x/MattGertz) on [X](/post/tweet/1945932358135214520) 2025-07-17 19:43:22 UTC 218.2K followers, 104K engagements


"This is ludicrously dumb not least because the reporter left the trade publication *the year before* before its founder's husband founded FusionGPS but a big chuck of the MAGAverse wants to help Trump by going knives-out for the Journal so it's spreading"  
![@MattGertz Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::55376380.png) [@MattGertz](/creator/x/MattGertz) on [X](/post/tweet/1946280565008720102) 2025-07-18 18:47:01 UTC 218.2K followers, 44.8K engagements


"It's a problem that the Justice Department functions as an instrument of the will of a president with authoritarian aspirations who runs with any conspiracy theory no matter how ridiculous if it targets his political foes"  
![@MattGertz Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::55376380.png) [@MattGertz](/creator/x/MattGertz) on [X](/post/tweet/1947688825859248195) 2025-07-22 16:02:57 UTC 218.2K followers, 3757 engagements


"Trump wants to use federal regulatory power in bad faith as a cudgel to keep media outlets in line. If say the FCC starts retaliating against Fox Corp. we will be in very dangerous territory"  
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"So did Dan Bongino show up for work today or what"  
![@MattGertz Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::55376380.png) [@MattGertz](/creator/x/MattGertz) on [X](/post/tweet/1944741246229954965) 2025-07-14 12:50:19 UTC 218.2K followers, 503.5K engagements


"Plausible that Trump will trade a pardon to his old friend Ghislane in exchange for nothing he loves letting elites do crimes and get away with them"  
![@MattGertz Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::55376380.png) [@MattGertz](/creator/x/MattGertz) on [X](/post/tweet/1947628218061570154) 2025-07-22 12:02:07 UTC 218.2K followers, 9717 engagements


"Trumps media lawsuits are all garbage like this but the companies that own the outlets need to be willing to fight them in court"  
![@MattGertz Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::55376380.png) [@MattGertz](/creator/x/MattGertz) on [X](/post/tweet/1946530907055177851) 2025-07-19 11:21:47 UTC 218.2K followers, 62.1K engagements


"More broadly what we're seeing that after Trump failed to reunify his coalition by a) saying the Epstein files were a deep-state conspiracy b) saying that Epstein was "boring stuff" and c) attacking supporters who still talked about it he's trying d) using WSJ as a foil"  
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"I think were underreacting to Trumps lawsuit against Murdoch and WSJ an authoritarian leader targeting the oligarch who helped put him in power for displaying insufficient loyalty while the leaders less-powerful supporters cheer is not something that traditionally ends well"  
![@MattGertz Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::55376380.png) [@MattGertz](/creator/x/MattGertz) on [X](/post/tweet/1947263006825472027) 2025-07-21 11:50:53 UTC 218.2K followers, 132.2K engagements


"Yes the federal prosecutor who gave Epstein his sweetheart plea deal and later became Trump's labor secretary recently joined the board of the pro-Trump outlet Newsmax"  
![@MattGertz Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::55376380.png) [@MattGertz](/creator/x/MattGertz) on [X](/post/tweet/1947672514554913044) 2025-07-22 14:58:08 UTC 218.2K followers, 24.9K engagements


"We're going to need answers from the attorney general the FBI director and the FBI deputy director given their past commentary about when they learned that Democrats and the deep state fabricated the "Epstein files" and what evidence supports that conclusion"  
![@MattGertz Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::55376380.png) [@MattGertz](/creator/x/MattGertz) on [X](/post/tweet/1945490931286700090) 2025-07-16 14:29:18 UTC 218.1K followers, 38.5K engagements


"Donald Trump's strategy of unifying his base by floating lies which provide them with a familiar common enemy is having success on Fox. Monday mentions on Fox News live programming: "Obama": XXX "Epstein": 2"  
![@MattGertz Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::55376380.png) [@MattGertz](/creator/x/MattGertz) on [X](/post/tweet/1947632775105802482) 2025-07-22 12:20:13 UTC 218.2K followers, 75.5K engagements