{"id":1463742,"date":"2022-05-04T12:44:36","date_gmt":"2022-05-04T16:44:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1463742"},"modified":"2022-05-04T12:44:42","modified_gmt":"2022-05-04T16:44:42","slug":"i-was-not-aware-mayorkas-says-he-didnt-know-about-truth-czars-viral-videos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/i-was-not-aware-mayorkas-says-he-didnt-know-about-truth-czars-viral-videos\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I Was Not Aware\u2019: Mayorkas Says He Didn\u2019t Know About Truth Czar\u2019s Viral Videos"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fi-was-not-aware-mayorkas-says-he-didnt-know-about-truth-czars-viral-videos%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1463742&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said Wednesday he was unaware that the Biden administration\u2019s new truth czar was making TikTok videos.<\/p>\n<p>While testifying before the Senator Judiciary Committee, Republican Louisiana Sen. John Kennedy asked \u201cwhen the department picked [Nina Jankowicz], was the department aware of her TikTok videos?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019re really quite precocious,\u201d Kennedy said, alluding to <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/04\/27\/biden-official-nina-jankowicz-hunter-biden-laptop\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jankowicz<\/a> now <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wiczipedia\/status\/1362153807879303171?s=20&#038;t=90vGpJCHU-EiPxOlZ0Ra9Q\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">viral video<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/05\/03\/mayorkas-congress-dhs-mayorkas-jankowicz\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mayorkas<\/a> then admitted he \u201cwas not aware of those videos.\u201d <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/05\/02\/nina-jankowicz-peddled-disinformation-about-steele-dossier\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Biden\u2019s New Truth Czar Talks A Lot About \u2018Disinformation Laundering.\u2019 And Here She Is Committing That Very Sin)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Sen. Kennedy: \u201cWhen the department picked [Nina Jankowicz], was the department aware of her TikTok videos? They\u2019re really quite precocious.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Alejandro Mayorkas: \u201cI was not aware of those videos.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/hGbtznUMjV\">pic.twitter.com\/hGbtznUMjV<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TPostMillennial\/status\/1521866985654657025?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 4, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cI, as the secretary, am responsible for the decisions of the department,\u201d Majorca\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.appropriations.senate.gov\/hearings\/a-review-of-the-presidents-fiscal-year-2023-funding-request-for-the-us-department-of-homeland-security\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">said<\/a>. \u201cThe department does not discuss its internal hiring processes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The DHS announced the creation of the <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/04\/29\/discomforting-elon-musk-dhs-new-disinformation-governance-board\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Disinformation Governance Board<\/a> to counter what it considers misinformation and disinformation, particularly disinformation coming from Russia and misleading rhetoric about the U.S.-Mexico border. The administration tapped Jankowicz to head the department, with Mayorkas recently <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/05\/01\/mayorkas-disinformation-board-infringe-free-speech\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">telling<\/a> Fox News she is a \u201csubject matter expert.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jankowicz posted a <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/04\/29\/famous-powerful-video-resurfaces-bidens-minister-truth-nina-jankowicz-singing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">video<\/a> to TikTok in February claiming she is the \u201cMary Poppins of disinformation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInformation laundering is really quite ferocious. It\u2019s when a huckster takes some lies and makes them sound precocious by saying them in Congress or a mainstream outlet, so disinformation\u2019s origins are slightly less atrocious,\u201d she sang.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/05\/02\/dana-bash-cnn-questions-alejandro-mayorkas-disinformation-governance-board\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jankowicz<\/a> attempted to discredit the <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/04\/27\/biden-official-nina-jankowicz-hunter-biden-laptop\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hunter Biden laptop<\/a> story, telling ABC News in October of 2020 the story is \u201ca Trump campaign product.\u201d She also claimed the <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2019\/12\/09\/doj-watchdog-debunk-dossier\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">now-discredited<\/a> Steele Dossier was funded by Republicans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said Wednesday he was unaware that the Biden administration\u2019s new truth czar was making TikTok videos.While testifying before the Senator Judiciary Committee, Republican<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74,"featured_media":1481572,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1463742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1463742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/74"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1463742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1463742\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1481572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1463742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1463742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1463742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}