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by Rebelgecko 564 days ago
Based on just reading the index (chapters with titles like "Masks did more harm than good", "Biden administration did illegal unconstitutional...", is it safe to assume that this report was written by Republican politicians with minimal input from others? Just doing a control-f, it seems weird that Biden is discussed so much more than Trump despite not being in office until a whole year after COVID arrived in the US
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itishappy 564 days ago
In the table of contents alone, "Biden" appears in 13 headings, while "Trump" is not present at all. Fascinating.

Sure enough, the author Brad Wenstrup is a Republican senator from Ohio.

https://www.congress.gov/member/brad-wenstrup/W000815

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jjulius 564 days ago
The committee was Republican-led, yes.
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Kerbiter 564 days ago
Funnily, Democrats released a rebuttal report on their own:

https://oversightdemocrats.house.gov/news/press-releases/ran...

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