Senator Eric Schmitt: Exposing the Biggest Censorship Scandal in US History

Eric Schmitt’s most consequential move as Missouri attorney general was seeking discovery before an injunction in the 2022 lawsuit against the Biden administration. He said that choice produced tens of thousands of government communications and depositions of Anthony Fauci, FBI agent Elvis Chan and other officials, giving the case its evidentiary foundation.

David Sacks described unusually direct access to Twitter immediately after Elon Musk’s takeover, including a late-night call from Musk after employees examined internal moderation tools. Sacks said those tools contained controls for excluding accounts from search and reducing distribution, providing concrete evidence that Twitter could quietly suppress visibility without formally banning users.

Schmitt wants Section 230 protections tied more closely to whether platforms moderate in a content-neutral way, and he extends the same concern to AI systems. He argued that platforms using algorithms to systematically exclude viewpoints should not receive the same legal protection as neutral intermediaries, making AI moderation a likely next front in this debate.

The sharpest disagreement concerned the FBI’s role before publication of the Hunter Biden laptop story. Schmitt and Sacks argued that government briefings primed platforms to treat a forthcoming Hunter Biden story as Russian disinformation, while Jason Calacanis argued platforms could reasonably have relied on FBI warnings given genuine concerns about foreign hacking.

Schmitt expects investigators to examine whether former intelligence officials committed crimes during the Trump-Russia investigation, naming James Comey, James Clapper and John Brennan as possible targets. He floated conspiracy to defraud the United States as a possible theory, while explicitly acknowledging uncertainty about indictments and separately labeling his Mar-a-Lago document theory only a “plausible explanation.”

Schmitt’s relationship with Vice President JD Vance predates Vance’s vice presidency and remains personally close. Schmitt said they entered the Senate together, became close through their freshman group and still try to maintain a monthly dinner—useful context for understanding the political network surrounding Schmitt and Sacks. (U.S. Senate)

On Ukraine, Schmitt said he would oppose additional open-ended U.S. taxpayer aid and views the current negotiations as a chance to end a war he considers unsustainable. Sacks cited Gallup’s finding that only 24% of Ukrainians favored fighting until victory, while Calacanis accepted the war fatigue but challenged their broader portrayal of Ukraine and Russia. (Gallup.com)

Schmitt placed Ukraine inside a broader “American realist” strategy: push European allies to carry more of Europe’s defense burden and redirect U.S. attention toward China and the Indo-Pacific. That is the clearest organizing principle behind his positions on NATO spending, Ukraine aid and his criticism of the foreign-policy establishment.