{"id":177526,"date":"2021-02-26T16:44:29","date_gmt":"2021-02-26T21:44:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=177526"},"modified":"2021-02-26T16:59:03","modified_gmt":"2021-02-26T21:59:03","slug":"possible-biden-pick-for-nec-scrubs-twitter-feed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/possible-biden-pick-for-nec-scrubs-twitter-feed\/","title":{"rendered":"Possible Biden Pick for NEC Scrubs Twitter Feed"},"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\">16<\/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%2Fpossible-biden-pick-for-nec-scrubs-twitter-feed%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=177526&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><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Tim-Wu_736x514.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>A <em>New York Times<\/em> contributing writer who is reportedly the Biden administration&#8217;s top candidate for a seat on the National Economic Council recently purged his Twitter feed of thousands of Twitter posts, many of which mocked conservatives and Republican leaders.<\/p>\n<p>Tim Wu, who is also a Columbia Law School professor, recently deleted nearly 11,000 tweets that he sent prior to Dec. 2, 2020, Fox News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/nyt-writer-tim-wu-tweets-name-floated-biden-administration-post\">reported<\/a> on Thursday.<\/p>\n<div class=\"posts-content__category-widget md:hidden -ml-4 -mr-4 my-8 px-4 py-6 bg-gray-100\">\n<h4 class=\"mt-0 text-red-600 font-medium font-sans uppercase\">Recent Stories in Biden Administration<\/h4>\n<ul class=\"list-none p-0\">\n<li class><a class=\"text-black block mb-3 pb-3 border-b border-white\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/possible-biden-pick-for-nec-scrubs-twitter-feed\/\"><strong>Possible Biden Pick for NEC Scrubs Twitter Feed<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li class><a class=\"text-black block mb-3 pb-3 border-b border-white\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/biden-minimum-wage-hike-would-kill-family-owned-restaurants-business-owner-warns\/\"><strong>Biden Minimum Wage Hike Would Kill Family-Owned Restaurants, Business Owner Warns<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li class><a class=\"text-black block mb-3 pb-3 border-b border-white\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/lawmaker-demands-biden-admin-disclose-secret-iran-talks-with-china\/\"><strong>Lawmaker Demands Biden Admin Disclose Secret Iran Talks with China<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>Wu also appeared to scrub several highly charged partisan messages he posted on Twitter after Dec. 2, 2020, according to archived copies reviewed by the <em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em>. In one dating from Dec. 12, Wu <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20201219040746\/https:\/twitter.com\/superwuster\">wrote<\/a> that a <em>Wall Street Journal<\/em> op-ed that criticized Jill Biden was &#8220;a reminder that the old-fashioned pre-Trump conservatives were pretty wretched too.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The news comes as President Joe Biden&#8217;s nominee for Office of Management and Budget director, Neera Tanden, faces bipartisan opposition in the Senate for her own tweets attacking conservatives and Bernie Sanders supporters.<\/p>\n<p><em>Politico<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/newsletters\/morning-tech\/2021\/02\/23\/antitrust-crusader-tim-wu-likely-landing-in-the-white-house-793535\">reported<\/a> earlier this week that Wu is likely to be appointed to the White House National Economic Council. The position does not require confirmation.<\/p>\n<p>On Nov. 9, 2020, Wu <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20201110030607\/https:\/twitter.com\/superwuster\/status\/132599708319162777\">mused<\/a>: &#8220;I feel like a symposium could well devoted [sic] to, who was worse, Bush or Trump, and why. Does still seem to stir debate. I am personally torn, mainly because of the Iraq war on false pretenses, the torture, and then more torture.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Times<\/em> contributor encouraged Trump administration officials to intentionally defy the president&#8217;s orders, <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180908020954\/https:\/twitter.com\/superwuster\/status\/1038052581967376384\">claiming<\/a> that &#8220;officials who decline to obey Trump&#8217;s orders are, in fact, not so much committing treason, but avoiding it by obeying their oath to uphold the Constitution.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Wu also used Donald Trump&#8217;s hospitalization with coronavirus as an opportunity to take a swipe at conservatives.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Even if not a single person in the world had said something disrespectful while Trump is in hospital, the right would need to invent that person to hold on to their precious sense of victimhood,&#8221; Wu\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20201005175653\/https:\/twitter.com\/superwuster\/status\/1313101196895367176\">wrote<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Last January, Wu took aim at Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I wonder what exactly was going on in Mitch McConnell&#8217;s brain as he swore \u2018I will do impartial justice?'&#8221; Wu\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20200118062638\/https:\/twitter.com\/superwuster\/status\/1218001996038508544\">wrote<\/a>. &#8220;My guess: \u2018blah blah blah do I hear someone talking, blah-di-blah blah blah.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In other tweets, Wu, who clerked for Supreme Court justice Stephen Breyer in the 1990s, <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180930045530\/https:\/twitter.com\/superwuster\/status\/1045850761316499458\">referred<\/a> to Brett Kavanaugh as &#8220;that screamer&#8221;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180930045530\/https:\/twitter.com\/superwuster\/status\/1045707287619399680\">and<\/a> a\u00a0&#8220;credibly accused sexual assailant.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This has transcended any question of \u2018what will happen to the Court&#8217; and [has] become the question of whether villainy will be punished or not,&#8221; Wu\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180930045530\/https:\/twitter.com\/superwuster\/status\/1045348776486023169\">wrote<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Neither Wu nor the White House responded to requests for comment.<\/p>\n<p>Although Wu would not need Senate confirmation to join the National Economic Council, that isn&#8217;t the case for Tanden, Biden&#8217;s pick for OMB director who has faced controversy due to her politically charged tweets. Last Friday, Democratic senator Joe Manchin (W.Va.) announced that he would oppose Tanden because of her &#8220;overtly partisan statements,&#8221; a move that will likely sink her chances of getting majority approval.<\/p>\n<div class=\"my-8 hide-print\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1526555381173-4\" class=\"mobile-250 desktop-90\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A New York Times contributing writer who is reportedly the Biden administration&#8217;s top candidate for a seat on the National Economic Council recently purged his Twitter feed of thousands of &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2274319,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Tim-Wu_736x514.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Possible Biden Pick for NEC Scrubs Twitter Feed","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-177526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Tim-Wu_736x514.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Possible Biden Pick for NEC Scrubs Twitter Feed","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177526","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177526\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2274319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}