The house oversight and reform committee has released memos this week, showing that Donald
Trump's administration wanted to add the citizenship question to the 2020 census in order to use
that information to help Republicans gerrymander and pick up a couple more seats following
the 2020 census.
Now it's important to remember that this citizenship question did not in fact, make it onto the
census.
Even John Roberts, chief justice of the Supreme court struck it down.
Uh, he actually wrote the majority opinion saying, sorry, this isn't gonna fly.
But these new memos that have been released by the house oversight and reform committee,
not just expose what was really behind the citizenship question, something we had all
long assumed, but it also shows that former commerce secretary Wilbur Roth, Ross very
clearly, you know, based on what we have now lied under oath to Congress.
See, this is actually a pretty massive story here, folks.
And unfortunately it kind of popped yesterday and then disappeared already, right?
24 hours later, nobody gives a about it anymore.
And that to me is one of the most frustrating parts of this article.
We have the memos from lawyers working with the commerce department under Wilbur Ross
and what they said, one of these lawyers, uh, uh, U Meer U Meer, um, what he did, he
wrote these memos U Meer did.
And he sends him over to the folks at the commerce department telling them, listen,
you can't put this question on there, right?
It, this is likely unconstitutional.
You can't do this, you can't do this.
You can't do this.
That's what O Myer's memos were telling folks at the commerce department, but then suddenly
he caved and he said, all right, fine.
You know what?
Put it in.
Let's just do it.
And of course in those memos, it also explains like we need to do this to help get the Republicans,
the extra seats, but Wilbur Ross, little, little while back had testified before Congress
that listen, we were only putting this citizenship question there, you know, based on a report
that we had produced showing of course that, you know, we, we just need to make sure that
we count everybody, but now we have the memo showing they only wanted the citizenship questions
so that they could Gerry Mander and give Republicans a couple more seats, which of course directly
contradicts Wilbur Ross's testimony to Congress, which to me looks a hell of a lot like lying
under oath.
So will we ever get criminal charges against Wilbur Ross?
Probably not.
As I said, everybody's already moved on from this story.
And it's been out for like 24 hours.
Nobody cares anymore.
Right?
We have the former commerce secretary of the United States under Donald Trump, in my opinion,
clearly lying under oath.
We have the memos to back it up memos to prove it right.
We've got the evidence.
We could have a very real trial here, right?
Let Wilber Ross have his defense.
If he can prove that he didn't know about the memos, then you know, totally innocent.
He didn't lie, but I don't think he can because all of his people were involved with these
memos to the point where one of them even drafted the order that Wilber Ross used to
cite the report to justify putting the citizenship question in the census.
This whole thing stinks to high heaven, but again, nobody seems to care about it.
So I seriously doubt that Wilber Ross is going to face any form of justice for what he did
here.