Sen. Kennedy Takes Mayorkas Apart Over Nina Jankowicz, Exposes a Larger Problem – Opinion

Joe Biden and the DHS have been getting justifiably pummeled over their new “Disinformation Governance Board” — a truly Orwellian idea that the Biden Administration announced to prevent the spread of “disinformation,” including in minority communities “ahead of the midterms.” An astonishing thing on multiple levels — for treating minorities like children who need to be told what they should believe, as well as the government deciding what qualifies as “disinformation,” particularly since they are big purveyors of disinformation themselves.

Previous reporting on Alejandro Mayorkas, DHS Secretary, hitting Sunday shows to try and justify the Board. It didn’t go well, as he tried to downplay what the Board would do and incredibly claimed that it would be “safeguarding” speech. Not too many people were buying that one, particularly when he also said that the person chosen to head the Board — Nina Jankowicz — was “eminently qualified” and “absolutely” neutral politically.

Mayorkas: Nina Jankowicz “eminently qualified” to lead disinformation board; “absolutely” neutral politically

Mayorkas also obfuscates on whether he’d support the same effort under Trump pic.twitter.com/9N1d0Pgny0

— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) May 1, 2022

On Wednesday, Senator John Kennedy (R.-LA) got the chance to interview Mayorkas regarding the Board. And he went crazy for him. Kennedy’s questioning revealed what the DHS vetting of Jankowicz was worth. Kennedy is always great to watch because he just takes people part — with a dash of folksy charm. He grilled Mayorkas on Jankowicz’s hiring, asking if he knew that she had called Hunter Biden’s laptop Russian disinformation?

.@SenJohnKennedyDHS Sec. Alejandro Mayorkas to task on the selection of “Ministry of Truth” Director Nina Jankowicz.

“Did [DHS] know that she had said that Mr. Hunter Biden’s laptop is Russian disinformation…that she had vouched for the veracity of the Steele dossier?” pic.twitter.com/KqOIm00vYR

— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) May 4, 2022

Mayorkas stated that he did not know of this. Kennedy asked if he knew that she had “vouched for the veracity of the Steele dossier.” Again, he said he was not aware of that fact. She claimed to be an expert on the topic matter [disinformation], to which Kennedy wryly responded, “I can tell.”

Indeed, that “absolutely” neutral person even promoted the debunked lie about Carter Page that Clinton operatives pushed.

Jankowicz talks a lot about “disinformation laundering.” Well this is about the best example you could find.

Clinton campaign spokesperson She cited a Clinton statement about an untrue news story that Carter Page was the subject of, which she claimed had been planted by Fusion GPS and Chris Steele. pic.twitter.com/CxlLNCKQys

— Chuck Ross (@ChuckRossDC) May 2, 2022

Kennedy wanted to know if her TikTok videos were known by the Department. He noted, with a little half-smile, that the videos were “quite precocious.”

KENNEDY: [Nina Jankowicz]Was the department made aware of her Tik Tok videos by Tik Tok? “They’re very precocious.”

MAYORKAS: I didn’t know about those videos. pic.twitter.com/eBgbwDMpok

— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) May 4, 2022

Mayorkas stated that he did not know about this. In case you haven’t seen them yet, here’s one sample, and you’ll get why Kennedy used the term “precocious.”

Meet the Biden Regime’s new Minister of Truth.

Yes, that’s really her.

It is true, it has gotten really bad. pic.twitter.com/m6Unz2hX7J

— Tricia Flanagan (R-NJ) (@NewDayForNJ) May 1, 2022

If they didn’t know anything about her disinformation or crazy videos, how did they vet them? Did they call “leftists are us” and ask for the name at the top of the list? What kind of background checks could they have been doing? This is just how poorly they vet her. Imagine the number of other security-related employees they are hiring. You have to wonder how terrorists get through their fingers. Not only shouldn’t they have such a board, not only shouldn’t they have hired this woman, but they don’t even seem to be able to do an effective hiring process for the agency that has the responsibility for keeping us safe.