Dems claim Trump is real problem when faced with Biden’s censorship of Amazon, Facebook

Ranking Member of the Committee Stacey Plaskett (D-VI), while speaking in the hearing and after other Democratic lawmakers turned attention to the potential election of Trump instead of free speech, said, "The Democrats are not worried about Trump taking down speech if he's re-elected, we're worried about him taking down people if he's re-elected."

The subject of the hearing derailed after Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz turned the attention to a second term of Trump as well as abortion prior to Plaskett's comments.

The Democrat-invited witness and former US Ambassador to the Czech Republic Norman Eisen then responded, saying that a second Trump term would be "potentially devastating" to women as well as "dangerous and threatening."

Further into Wasserman Schultz's questioning she stated, "The White House should never be turned into a workshop to grind personal and political grievances. Trump did that during his last term and promises to do it again."

To add to the mix of comments from progressive House members, Rep. Sylvia Garcia said that when Trump "talks about being a dictator, I really don't think that's a joke. I think he's for real... Trump turned the federal government into a horrifying weapon for his own personal gain to serve his racist goals."

The hearing, designated on Tuesday to "examine the threat to the First Amendment posed by artificial intelligence and the federal government's role in funding the development of AI-powered censorship and propaganda tools that can be used by governments and Big Tech" had three other witnesses aside from Eisen.

President and CEO Greg Lukianoff of the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, investigative journalist Lee Fang, and Supreme Court Reporter Katelynn Richardson of the Daily Caller News Foundation also gave testimonies during the hearing.

In Richardson's submitted testimony, she gave her account of the Biden administration's effort to fund "censorship tools" by giving grants to the National Science Foundation which would specialize in "combating misinformation."

Richardson wrote in her brief, "What I discovered was a multi-million dollar effort to build what I call a Censorship Industrial Complex, using taxpayer dollars as seed funding for various projects."