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New court documents indicate significant problems for Biden’s FTC. A highly respected accounting firm alleges that Biden’s FTC tried to force them into penalizing Elon Musk following his purchase of Twitter. This probably doesn’t surprise you; after all, we’re aware that this fits a pattern with the left, especially with Biden’s team.

If you rewind back to last May, this whole FTC scenario begins to make perfect sense. You’ll quickly notice the  extent to which the FTC was attempting to target Elon Musk. No wonder they were exploring every possible means to bring him down. Sounds like desperation to control the narrative.

Townhall:

In an outrageous attack on the First Amendment, the Federal Trade Commission is going after Twitter CEO Elon Musk for exposing censorship previously deployed by the company, known as the “Twitter Files,” after taking over the social network last year. That censorship, which targeted Townhall, was heavily influenced and pushed by the FBI, the Biden White House and other federal government agencies.

According to new reporting from the Wall Street Journal, the FTC is demanding Musk turn over the names of journalists he’s worked with — many who published the Twitter Files — along with other private and internal company information.

“The Federal Trade Commission has demanded Twitter Inc. turn over internal communications related to owner Elon Musk, as well as detailed information about layoffs—citing concerns that staff reductions could compromise the company’s ability to protect users, documents viewed by the Wall Street Journal show,” WSJ reports. “In 12 letters sent to Twitter and its lawyers since Mr. Musk’s Oct. 27 takeover, the FTC also asked the company to “identify all journalists” granted access to company records and to provide information about the launch of the revamped Twitter Blue subscription service, the documents show.”

Musk is responding to the intimidation attacks, calling them “shameful” and a weaponization of government.

Early on, Musk responded to the attacks from the FTC with this statement:

A shameful case of weaponization of a government agency for political purposes and suppression of the truth!

The House Judiciary Committee recently tweeted court documents revealing the FTC’s attempts to pressure a this top-tier accounting firm, Ernst & Young, into penalizing Elon Musk. The situation escalated to the point where the employees at the accounting firm feared they would face repercussions if they failed to act against Musk. At times, it’s hard to identify this new totalitarian country as the “America” we once knew.

Here’s a closeup of the citation of the court document:

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Elon responded to the GOP tweet, with this:

Musk also retweeted a clip from Jim Jordan, who wonders why Biden’s FTC is so afraid of free speech. Elon aptly stated, “Extremely concerning.” Watch the clip:

This pretty much says it all.

Fox News:

X Corp., the new corporate name for Twitter, asked the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California to “rein in an investigation that has spiraled out of control and become tainted by bias, and to terminate a misfit consent order that no longer can serve any proper equitable purpose.”

The motion seeks a protective order and an end to the consent decree, noting that X Corp. “has responded to this avalanche of demands as best it can, responding promptly to FTC inquiries and producing more than 22,000 documents to date.

“The FTC’s overreach has now culminated in a demand to depose Mr. Musk, who is not, and never has been, a party to the consent order.”

Jordan referenced part of Thursday’s court filing. It cites testimony from David Roque, independent partner for Ernst & Young’s independent assessment of Twitter’s program, who was deposed by FTC lawyers June 21. Roque testified that FTC’s conduct made him feel “as if the FTC was trying to influence the outcome of the engagement before it had started.”

AP News:

The filing states that the FTC has issued 16 demand letters to X Corp. since Musk’s takeover of Twitter, in comparison to approximately 28 demand letters it issued in the decade-plus period it oversaw Twitter’s compliance with the prior consent order.

The order seeks a stay that would prevent the FTC from deposing Musk.

“X Corp. has responded to this avalanche of demands as best it can, responding promptly to FTC inquiries and producing more than 22,000 documents to date,” the filing states. “The FTC’s overreach has now culminated in a demand to depose Mr. Musk, who is not, and never has been, a party to the consent order.”

A hearing date is listed for Aug. 17, but the filing states that a hearing may occur on such other date and time as the court may order.

Jim Jordan also pressed Khan on the FTC’s general harassment of Twitter.

Fox News:

House Judiciary Committee Chair Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, pressed Federal Trade Commissioner Lina Khan on what he described as the agency’s “obsession” with Elon Musk as Twitter asked a federal court to end a consent decree permitting U.S. government data oversight of the private social media company.

“Why are you harassing Twitter?” Jordan asked Khan Thursday.

“As you might know, the FTC’s work on Twitter goes back a decade,” Khan started.

“I’m not talking about a decade, I’m talking about now,” Jordan interjected. “Twelve demand letters in 10 weeks, Three hundred – over 350 separate requests you’ve demanded of Twitter. Why are you harassing them?”

[…]

“You’ve asked for every single communication relating to Elon Musk – not communication that he just sent to someone or communications he received, but anytime he’s mentioned. That seems like more than harassment, that seems like obsession. Why such an intense focus?” Jordan pressed.

“So congressman, again, it was found that Twitter’s lack of privacy policies allowed unauthorized users to coopt Twitter accounts, including that of Fox News. Subsequently, Twitter voluntarily entered into a consent order with the FTC,” Khan said.

“Here’s what you wrote in December,” Jordan interrupted, quoting Khan’s correspondence. “’Identify all journalists and other members of the media to whom Twitter has granted access since Musk bought the company.’ You want to know the name of every journalist a private company has talked to? You think that’s consistent with the First Amendment?”

“Congressman, as a former journalist, I take extremely seriously the valuable work that they do and understand that there can be instances in which government action is unjustifiably chilling,” Khan said before Jordan interjected again.

“That’s bad enough, and I think a threat to the First Amendment freedom of the press,” Jordan said. “But in the context of giving us information about how government had suppressed speech on these platforms, that’s the context you’re asking for, I think that’s particularly troubling, don’t you?”

In Biden’s America, you don’t actually have to commit a crime to land in hot water. Simply challenging their power and control can turn the entire corrupt U.S. government against you. Sadly, both Elon Musk and President Trump are all too familiar with this.

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