{"id":591887,"date":"2021-07-15T10:50:29","date_gmt":"2021-07-15T14:50:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=591887"},"modified":"2021-07-15T10:50:37","modified_gmt":"2021-07-15T14:50:37","slug":"exclusive-biden-nominees-deleted-tweets-raise-serious-concerns-about-fitness-to-serve-gop-senator-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/exclusive-biden-nominees-deleted-tweets-raise-serious-concerns-about-fitness-to-serve-gop-senator-says\/","title":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: Biden Nominee\u2019s Deleted Tweets \u2018Raise Serious Concerns\u2019 About Fitness To Serve, GOP Senator Says"},"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\">30<\/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%2Fexclusive-biden-nominees-deleted-tweets-raise-serious-concerns-about-fitness-to-serve-gop-senator-says%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=591887&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--><ul>\n<li><strong>President Joe Biden\u2019s nominee to lead the top federal housing deleted several tweets disparaging law enforcement and Republicans, the Senate Banking Committee\u2019s ranking member said.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong> Ranking Member Pat Toomey urged Julia Gordon, who President Joe Biden nominated to lead the Federal Housing Administration, to assist him in recovering her deleted tweets in a letter sent Thursday and obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>\u201cAs the Senate evaluates nominees\u2019 fitness for senior leadership positions across the Federal government, it\u2019s important the public has a full picture of one\u2019s policy views, judgment, and character,\u201d Toomey told the DCNF in a statement.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>President Joe Biden\u2019s nominee to lead the top federal housing deleted several tweets disparaging law enforcement and Republicans, the Senate Banking Committee\u2019s ranking member said.<\/p>\n<p>Republican Sen. Pat Toomey urged Julia Gordon, who President Joe Biden nominated to lead the Federal Housing Administration (FHA), to assist him in recovering her deleted tweets in a letter sent Thursday and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/document\/515927978\/Ranking-Member-Toomey-Letter-to-Julia-Gordon?secret_password=pu7AaozOrJDRLWSxu8kd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">obtained<\/a> by the Daily Caller News Foundation. Using an online archive tool, GOP Banking Committee staff have already recovered some tweets that \u201craise serious concerns\u201d about Gordon\u2019s fitness for office, Toomey wrote.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs the Senate evaluates nominees\u2019 fitness for senior leadership positions across the Federal government, it\u2019s important the public has a full picture of one\u2019s policy views, judgment, and character,\u201d Ranking Member Toomey told the DCNF in a statement. \u201cA nominee\u2019s past public statements matter, and a nominee should not be able to avoid scrutiny by merely clicking a button marked \u2018delete.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the letter, Toomey noted tweets in which Gordon labeled Capitol Hill Republicans \u201cshameless\u201d for opposing certain liberal housing policies and advocated for lenders to take \u201canti-racist\u201d stances. Gordon also tweeted comments denigrating states in the South, saying \u201c[p]ractically the whole region has rejected nearly everything that\u2019s good about this country\u201d and that winning elections there \u201cis not worth the ideological cost for Democrats.\u201d <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/07\/13\/janet-yellen-maxine-waters-patrick-mchenry\/\">(RELATED: Top Republican Demands Janet Yellen Testifies About $44 Billion In Unused COVID Funds)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7237651\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"32\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7237651\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7237651\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/GettyImages-1320336233-scaled-1.jpg\" alt=\"Sen. Pat Toomey speaks during a news conference on May 27. (Chip Somodevilla\/Getty Images)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/GettyImages-1320336233-scaled-1.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/cdn01.dailycaller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/GettyImages-1320336233-180x120.jpg 180w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/GettyImages-1320336233-620x413-1.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/GettyImages-1320336233-768x512-1.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/GettyImages-1320336233-1536x1024-1.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/GettyImages-1320336233-2048x1366-1.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7237651\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. Pat Toomey speaks during a news conference on May 27. (Chip Somodevilla\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Tweets recovered by Toomey\u2019s staff appeared to show Gordon attacking elected Republicans including Sens. Lindsey Graham and Rand Paul. In one deleted tweet, Gordon said a fly that landed on former Vice President Mike Pence\u2019s head was his \u201conly black friend.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gordon additionally retweeted a post describing police officers as \u201cthe people killing us,\u201d the Pennsylvania senator wrote. She then retweeted a separate post calling for dismantling the \u201cfour hundred years of personal and structural racism\u201d in the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf the Biden administration wants to be taken seriously in its recent effort to try to distance itself from the Defund the Police movement, then why are they still stacking the administration full of anti-police advocates?\u201d Amanda Thompson, a spokesperson for Toomey, told the DCNF.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs the crime rate in American cities is skyrocketing, nominating individuals who proudly advocate for defunding the police is a slap in the face to every law enforcement officer in America,\u201d she continued. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/06\/30\/republican-senator-pat-toomey-banking-committee-federal-reserve-bank\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Top GOP Senator Rips Federal Reserve For Not Complying With Congressional Probe Into \u2018Woke Mission Creep\u2019)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Gordon\u2019s Twitter activity falls in line with a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stabilizationtrust.org\/letter-from-julia-gordon-july-2020\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">public letter<\/a> she wrote, arguing that coronavirus\u2019 disproportionate effects on black people \u201cstem from flawed and biased systems that require structural change,\u201d Toomey said.<\/p>\n<p>The ranking member asked Gordon to request her deleted tweet data from Twitter and turn it over to the committee by July 22, 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Biden nominated Gordon, the current president of the nonprofit National Community Stabilization Trust, to lead the FHA at the Department of Housing and Urban Development in June, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanbanker.com\/news\/biden-nominates-julia-gordon-to-be-fha-commissioner\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">according<\/a> to the American Banker. Progressive and housing groups <a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanprogress.org\/press\/statement\/2021\/06\/25\/500988\/statement-cap-congratulates-julia-gordon-nomination-fha-commissioner\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">applauded<\/a> the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nar.realtor\/newsroom\/nar-applauds-president-bidens-nomination-of-julia-gordon-to-head-fha\">nomination<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In May, Toomey <a href=\"https:\/\/www.banking.senate.gov\/imo\/media\/doc\/toomey_letter_to_twitter.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">wrote<\/a> to Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, asking for him to share deleted tweets of two individuals who Biden nominated for HUD positions. One of the nominees allegedly tweeted that former President Donald Trump was \u201cthe Devil, only stupider and in human form.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read the full letter:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"View Ranking Member Toomey Letter to Julia Gordon on Scribd\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/document\/515927978\/Ranking-Member-Toomey-Letter-to-Julia-Gordon#from_embed\">Ranking Member Toomey Lette\u2026<\/a> by <a title=\"View Daily Caller News Foundation&#039;s profile on Scribd\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/user\/292804634\/Daily-Caller-News-Foundation#from_embed\">Daily Caller News Foundation<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Content created by The Daily Caller News Foundation is available without charge to any eligible news publisher that can provide a large audience. For licensing opportunities of our original content, please contact <a href=\"mailto:licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org\">licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden\u2019s nominee to lead the top federal housing deleted several tweets disparaging law enforcement and Republicans, the Senate Banking Committee\u2019s ranking member said. 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