On Tuesday afternoon, U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Auburn) delivered remarks on the Senate floor condemning what he referred to as the Democratic Party's “January 6 hoax.”
The lawmaker spoke specifically about his personal experience at the capital on January 6, 2021 and decried the push from liberals to label the events of January 6 worse than those of December 7, 1941.
"January 6 was my first day on the job here in the United States Senate," Tuberville began. "Come to think of it. It was first day of the year and started a huge disaster the next four years. I sat right over there. And again, it was my first time on the Senate floor."
"One of the first things I heard from my Democrat colleagues after we returned to the floor that same night after being taken and hidden out for a few hours was this was the worst disaster and was even worse than Pearl Harbor. By the way, that was a real attack that killed 2,403 Americans. And I thought at that time, 'Are you kidding me? What are we talking about here?'"
Tuberville said the same Democrats who called the day worse than Pearl Harbor, immediately also began arguing that the "attack" was "racist."
"And, you know, I didn't understand that. Being my first day here, I thought, 'Wait a minute. I mean, I thought we're all in this together.' They know dang well this wasn't a 'racist' attack, but it was just something that they wanted to use," argued Tuberville. "But they never miss an opportunity to paint somebody a racist, you know, when it comes to the Democrats. So, January 6 had nothing to do with racism."
The senior senator from Alabama argued that the events of January 6 were part of a carefully planned coup conducted by high-ranking Democrats, such as U.S. Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.).
"Let's be clear what happened that day: Democrats and the deep state hate Donald Trump so much that they helped orchestrate a coup against our government. It's been looked at, vilified, and the information that we found today is just amazing," said Tuberville.
"And it first started with the tampering of the 2020 presidential election results to oust President Trump and to install a different type of government. As a result, great American patriots gathered in Washington to peacefully protest the illegal tampering of the election of 2020. When the leader of the Democratic Party at that time, Nancy Pelosi, and the deep state learned of Trump supporters coming to Washington, D.C., […] they got an idea. Now, again, this has all been proven. They decided to infiltrate the crowd with Antifa and intelligence community members who would stir up trouble. The FBI has confirmed that there were 274 FBI agents in plainclothes in the Capitol here that day. Then they set up the Capitol Police by failing and refusing President Trump's offer to bring in National Guard as back up. They turned it down."
According to Tuberville, the Capitol Police were "set up to fail" by the Democrats leading the coup.
"I interact with the Capitol Hill police here every day. They're brave men and women who work tirelessly to help keep us all safe, but they were set up to fail by the Democrats that day," stated Tuberville. "And then, of course, Democrats placed all the blame on President Trump and the Republicans for everything that happened that day and afterwards. They had the majority. Nancy Pelosi spearheaded the true insurrection that day. This has all been proven true and she even admitted responsibility for the massive security failures of that day."
Tuberville noted that January 6 didn't end Democrats' persecution of Trump and his supporters.
"For the next four years, Joe Biden and the Democrats did everything they could do—everything—to arrest, harass, bankrupt, de-platform, and kill President Trump. Not to mention the hundreds of innocent patriotic Americans who sat behind bars for the past five years over this made-up witch hunt," Tuberville stated. "That is one of the most embarrassing things that I've seen since I've been here. Thankfully, most of them now have been released. You know, conveniently, the Biden DOJ neglected to investigate members of the intelligence community for their treasonous involvement in the events of January 6. That was very convenient. As a matter of fact, they never brought the guy in who was in charge of Capitol Hill police for an interview. They never wanted to talk to him."
The lawmaker then pivoted to liberal claims that Capitol Police officers were killed during the chaos.
"Still today, Democrats are trying to rewrite the true events of that history. They keep mentioning all of these Capitol Police who supposedly died on January 6. Now, don't get me wrong, we have brave people that work in this building, but this was made up, and it continues to be made up."
Tuberville spoke of Ashley Babbitt, the one American who died on January 6, 2021, after being shot by a Capitol Police officer.
"The only person who died on January 6 was Ashley Babbitt, an unarmed Air Force veteran who was shot that day in this building," said Tuberville. "Recently, Senate Democrats attempted—think about this—attempted to strip Ashley Babbitt of her military funeral honors. Now, why would they do that? Ashley Babbitt was wrongfully killed on January 6, 2021. The federal government admitted it, and they paid money to her family as part of a legal settlement. Interesting. Democrats, they don't care about the truth."
Tuberville argued today is a significant reminder that radical Democrats and the deep state "don't like our country."
"They will do whatever it takes to try to make the Republican Party and President Trump look bad. Unfortunately for them, the American people aren't buying it. 77 million people came to the rescue of our country a year ago. […] 77 million people."
"And that is why President Trump is back in the White House—and thank God he is," Tuberville added.
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