On Wednesday, U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Auburn) praised the firing of Susan Monarez as CDC director, saying she was a "wolf in sheep's clothing."
On the heels of a Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee hearing with Monarez, Tuberville told Fox Business Network's "The Bottom Line" that the ousted CDC director "needed to be fired" for not being honest about taking down "woke nonsense" from the CDC website at the behest of President Donald Trump and Health and Human Resources Secretary Robert Kennedy, Jr.
"Wolf in sheep’s clothing," Tuberville said of Monarez. "Exactly what happened—she came to my office about a month ago, before her hearing—totally different. Today, she came in and ... she couldn't remember things, the time—you just heard that scenario with Senator Mullin. But I asked her a question about, ‘OK, you got a CDC website. You were told by the President of United States to take all the DEI woke nonsense out of it because this should be about health.’ She said she did. I go back to my office 30 minutes later—it's still up. At least tell the truth. Tell the truth about what you believe in. But again, she changed her spots real quick when she got back in. She forgot who her boss was, which was Secretary Kennedy and President Trump. She didn't do anything that he or either one of them asked her to do, and it was a tragedy."
"It's just unfortunate she sold herself as somebody that was going to do something for the American people, but she changed her ways and didn’t do anything," he continued. "She needed to be fired."
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