Deleted Tweets From Ted Lieu, D-Calif.

Dear Alan Dershowitz: The 25th Amendment is the law. @VP and a majority of the Cabinet can invoke this Amendment. You cay disagree with their use of it should they invoke it, but you cannot say it would be unconstitutional. You should read the Constitution again @AlanDersh. QT @realDonaldTrump: “Trying to use the 25th Amendment to try and circumvent the Election is a despicable act of unconstitutional power… https://t.co/yaOJ2xZj7k)

Proposed national emergency declaration by @POTUS is not only unconstitutional, it would take money designated to help military families & disaster victims and redirect the funds for a wasteful, easily-defeated wall. Not the stupidest idea I have ever seen, but it comes close. QT @votevets: PER @ABC To build his wall, via an unconstitutional grab of Congressional powers, Donald Trump will announce tomor… https://t.co/qk6rfZeaBb)

After spending 60% of his time in Executive Time, this recycled threat is all @POTUS could come up with? @realDonaldTrump & GOP tried the big scary caravan argument last Nov & got crushed. The caravans present themselves at legal checkpoints. The American people are not stupid. QT @realDonaldTrump: With Caravans marching through Mexico and toward our Country, Republicans must be prepared to do whatever is necess… https://t.co/slwIl9FzcC)

Dear @realDonaldTrump: This article highlights your willful ignorance during intelligence briefings. https://t.co/8VNNWw5Gll The world can be complicated, so I'm sending again this one-page memo with lots of visuals that can help you make sense of it all. #SaturdayMotivation QT @RepTedLieu: Dear @POTUS: Many people say you get your facts from fictional sources. We are concerned you may not understand the… https://t.co/RcOmIStnFr)

RT @mcevasco: Congressman @tedlieu and @SenMarkey reintroduce their bipartisan bicameral bill to require Congress to approve a… https://t.co/0LVIGZD0Sp

My weekly recommendations for Freshman Members of Congress to follow. The below all served in the Executive Branch: @AndyKimNJ, National Security Council Official @SpanbergerVA07, CIA Operations Officer @RepSlotkin, Asst Secretary of Defense @Malinowski, Asst Secretary of State

RT @etangent: Don’t give them ideas https://t.co/Rp7X7D5J4l

The only new fact that we learned today from the #TrumpAddress, in which @POTUS made recycled talking points, is that he is no longer making the denunked terrorism argument. Also, @realDonaldTrump is in trouble when even Fox News is now fact checking him. QT @thedailybeast: Fox News' Shep Smith fact-checks the #TrumpAddress: “Statistics show that there is less violent crime by the undocu… https://t.co/xfCw4FILrd)

Dear @PressSec Sarah Sanders: -US taxpayers, not Mexico, fund federal agencies. -The Executive Branch executes the law. Congress appropriates funds & write the laws. @realDonaldTrump cannot use other funds to build a wall that Congress specifically did not appropriate. Get it? QT @MrTommyCampbell: Sarah Sanders ”We’re not asking American taxpayers to fund the wall, we’re asking various agencies to see if they h… https://t.co/KBJbVvfHJl)

"Jakelin Caal Maquin jumped up and down when her father told her they're leaving their impoverished Guatemalan village for the United States. When the rest of her family sent them off, nobody imagined the 7-year-old girl would not come back alive." QT @CNN: "It really hurts": Thousands of miles away, family looks for answers in death of 7-year-old Guatemalan girl in Bord… https://t.co/Dmj8oZlFvD)

Why would prosecutors give immunity to the publisher of National Enquirer, which paid hush money to Karen McDougal to silence her story of her affair w/ @realDonaldTrump? It isn't to go after Michael Cohen, who already got sentenced. It's so they can prosecute other people ... QT @CNBC: Federal prosecutors have given immunity to the publisher of the National Enquirer in connection with the $150,000 h… https://t.co/tEY6htTgMw)

Republicans got crushed in the midterms, losing the popular vote by the largest margin in US history; losing the House by 40 seats; & losing 7 governorships. Women played an outsized role in the #GOP defeat. And what does the GOP do? Refuse to renew the Violence Against Women Act QT @rollcall: Congress will not extend #VAWA as part of two-week stopgap spending bill, which means the landmark domestic violenc… https://t.co/vyd3gJfPQO)

Dear GOP @HouseJudiciary: You had scheduled another ridiculous hearing on regulating the protected free speech of private sector social media companies for this Wed. I request you cancel the stupid hearing in light of the National Day of Mourning & the funeral of President Bush. QT @USATODAY: The funeral for former president George H.W. Bush will be Wednesday at Washington National Cathedral https://t.co/2NBOK6K1OM)

Dear @JapanEmbDC: Please inform PM Abe that his facts are wrong. GOP suffered the worst popular vote loss in a midterm is US history. Dems also took back 7 governorships; flipped PA, WI, MI & AZ; and won the House by 40 seats. If these results are replicated in 2020, Trump loses. QT @jonallendc: PM Shinzo Abe of Japan to Trump just now at G20: "I want to congratulate you on your historic victory in the midter… https://t.co/yHDcRHc2w1)

RT @TizabiShawn: Courage is applauded, thank you @tedlieu for allowing my voice to be heard. #ConstitutionalRights https://t.co/hSmIiPrzrI

RT @RepTedLieu: Joined Reps @JuliaBrownley26 and @BradSherman in urging @POTUS to approve Gov. Brown’s request for an expedited maj… https://t.co/06Z3TS4GLX

RT @ladailynews: #WoolseyFire update: - Wildfire has now burned more than 35,000 acres, 0% contained - Evacuations ordered for Agour… https://t.co/oxKqAGwrNp

The Saudi Arabia story that Khashoggi would get into a fist fight with over a dozen trained Saudi killers is ridiculous on its face. Oh, and there's that whole bone saw thing. QT @washingtonpost: Saudi Arabia fires 5 top officials and has arrested 18 Saudis after saying Khashoggi was killed in a fight at consu… https://t.co/Gmit3bbscv)

I've thought some more about Kavanaugh's testimony. His lies were not little lies. He lied about "Devil's Triangle" and "boofed" because those are sexual terms. He lied about "ralphing" because it was about inebriation. He is accused of drunken sexual assault. QT @NateSilver538: During the Whitehouse questions about the yearbook, he's literally almost sneering with contempt while launching in… https://t.co/mxbTa2Ls8T)

The #KavanaughHearings today is not just a he said, she said. It's a he said, she said, along with a crucial witness at the scene of the sexual assault whom the GOP refuses to question under oath. Why is the GOP hiding Kavanaugh's friend Mark Judge from the American people? QT @TwitterMoments: SCOTUS nominee Brett Kavanaugh and Christine Blasey Ford are set to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee. https://t.co/y72VwzVb7B)

Dear Alan Dershowitz: The 25th Amendment is the law. @VP and a majority of the Cabinet can invoke this Amendment. You cay disagree with their use of it should they invoke it, but you cannot say it would be unconstitutional. You should read the Constitution again @AlanDersh. QT @realDonaldTrump: “Trying to use the 25th Amendment to try and circumvent the Election is a despicable act of unconstitutional power… https://t.co/yaOJ2xZj7k)

Proposed national emergency declaration by @POTUS is not only unconstitutional, it would take money designated to help military families & disaster victims and redirect the funds for a wasteful, easily-defeated wall. Not the stupidest idea I have ever seen, but it comes close. QT @votevets: PER @ABC To build his wall, via an unconstitutional grab of Congressional powers, Donald Trump will announce tomor… https://t.co/qk6rfZeaBb)

After spending 60% of his time in Executive Time, this recycled threat is all @POTUS could come up with? @realDonaldTrump & GOP tried the big scary caravan argument last Nov & got crushed. The caravans present themselves at legal checkpoints. The American people are not stupid. QT @realDonaldTrump: With Caravans marching through Mexico and toward our Country, Republicans must be prepared to do whatever is necess… https://t.co/slwIl9FzcC)

Dear @realDonaldTrump: This article highlights your willful ignorance during intelligence briefings. https://t.co/8VNNWw5Gll The world can be complicated, so I'm sending again this one-page memo with lots of visuals that can help you make sense of it all. #SaturdayMotivation QT @RepTedLieu: Dear @POTUS: Many people say you get your facts from fictional sources. We are concerned you may not understand the… https://t.co/RcOmIStnFr)

RT @mcevasco: Congressman @tedlieu and @SenMarkey reintroduce their bipartisan bicameral bill to require Congress to approve a… https://t.co/0LVIGZD0Sp

My weekly recommendations for Freshman Members of Congress to follow. The below all served in the Executive Branch: @AndyKimNJ, National Security Council Official @SpanbergerVA07, CIA Operations Officer @RepSlotkin, Asst Secretary of Defense @Malinowski, Asst Secretary of State

RT @etangent: Don’t give them ideas https://t.co/Rp7X7D5J4l

The only new fact that we learned today from the #TrumpAddress, in which @POTUS made recycled talking points, is that he is no longer making the denunked terrorism argument. Also, @realDonaldTrump is in trouble when even Fox News is now fact checking him. QT @thedailybeast: Fox News' Shep Smith fact-checks the #TrumpAddress: “Statistics show that there is less violent crime by the undocu… https://t.co/xfCw4FILrd)

Dear @PressSec Sarah Sanders: -US taxpayers, not Mexico, fund federal agencies. -The Executive Branch executes the law. Congress appropriates funds & write the laws. @realDonaldTrump cannot use other funds to build a wall that Congress specifically did not appropriate. Get it? QT @MrTommyCampbell: Sarah Sanders ”We’re not asking American taxpayers to fund the wall, we’re asking various agencies to see if they h… https://t.co/KBJbVvfHJl)

"Jakelin Caal Maquin jumped up and down when her father told her they're leaving their impoverished Guatemalan village for the United States. When the rest of her family sent them off, nobody imagined the 7-year-old girl would not come back alive." QT @CNN: "It really hurts": Thousands of miles away, family looks for answers in death of 7-year-old Guatemalan girl in Bord… https://t.co/Dmj8oZlFvD)

Why would prosecutors give immunity to the publisher of National Enquirer, which paid hush money to Karen McDougal to silence her story of her affair w/ @realDonaldTrump? It isn't to go after Michael Cohen, who already got sentenced. It's so they can prosecute other people ... QT @CNBC: Federal prosecutors have given immunity to the publisher of the National Enquirer in connection with the $150,000 h… https://t.co/tEY6htTgMw)

Republicans got crushed in the midterms, losing the popular vote by the largest margin in US history; losing the House by 40 seats; & losing 7 governorships. Women played an outsized role in the #GOP defeat. And what does the GOP do? Refuse to renew the Violence Against Women Act QT @rollcall: Congress will not extend #VAWA as part of two-week stopgap spending bill, which means the landmark domestic violenc… https://t.co/vyd3gJfPQO)

Dear GOP @HouseJudiciary: You had scheduled another ridiculous hearing on regulating the protected free speech of private sector social media companies for this Wed. I request you cancel the stupid hearing in light of the National Day of Mourning & the funeral of President Bush. QT @USATODAY: The funeral for former president George H.W. Bush will be Wednesday at Washington National Cathedral https://t.co/2NBOK6K1OM)

Dear @JapanEmbDC: Please inform PM Abe that his facts are wrong. GOP suffered the worst popular vote loss in a midterm is US history. Dems also took back 7 governorships; flipped PA, WI, MI & AZ; and won the House by 40 seats. If these results are replicated in 2020, Trump loses. QT @jonallendc: PM Shinzo Abe of Japan to Trump just now at G20: "I want to congratulate you on your historic victory in the midter… https://t.co/yHDcRHc2w1)

RT @TizabiShawn: Courage is applauded, thank you @tedlieu for allowing my voice to be heard. #ConstitutionalRights https://t.co/hSmIiPrzrI

RT @RepTedLieu: Joined Reps @JuliaBrownley26 and @BradSherman in urging @POTUS to approve Gov. Brown’s request for an expedited maj… https://t.co/06Z3TS4GLX

RT @ladailynews: #WoolseyFire update: - Wildfire has now burned more than 35,000 acres, 0% contained - Evacuations ordered for Agour… https://t.co/oxKqAGwrNp

The Saudi Arabia story that Khashoggi would get into a fist fight with over a dozen trained Saudi killers is ridiculous on its face. Oh, and there's that whole bone saw thing. QT @washingtonpost: Saudi Arabia fires 5 top officials and has arrested 18 Saudis after saying Khashoggi was killed in a fight at consu… https://t.co/Gmit3bbscv)

I've thought some more about Kavanaugh's testimony. His lies were not little lies. He lied about "Devil's Triangle" and "boofed" because those are sexual terms. He lied about "ralphing" because it was about inebriation. He is accused of drunken sexual assault. QT @NateSilver538: During the Whitehouse questions about the yearbook, he's literally almost sneering with contempt while launching in… https://t.co/mxbTa2Ls8T)

The #KavanaughHearings today is not just a he said, she said. It's a he said, she said, along with a crucial witness at the scene of the sexual assault whom the GOP refuses to question under oath. Why is the GOP hiding Kavanaugh's friend Mark Judge from the American people? QT @TwitterMoments: SCOTUS nominee Brett Kavanaugh and Christine Blasey Ford are set to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee. https://t.co/y72VwzVb7B)