Congressional Cowards is a weekly collection highlighting the cowards on Capitol Hill, who refuse to criticize Donald Trump or their very own occasion—irrespective of how disgraceful or lawless their actions.
Republicans are refusing to name out GOP Sen. Mike Lee of Utah for his disgusting tweets mocking the assassination of Minnesota Home Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband and spreading lies in regards to the alleged killer, who had a listing of plenty of different Democratic officers and abortion suppliers.
Reasonably than particularly condemn Lee’s tweets—through which he falsely acknowledged that the alleged killer, MAGA loyalist Vance Boelter, was a leftist—plenty of Republicans have as a substitute tried to “either side” the difficulty, saying that each political events want to show down the rhetoric.
“The rhetoric that continues to return from either side is what steams and stirs the hearth,” GOP Sen. Markwayne Mullin of Oklahoma informed Politico.
Lee has since deleted his tweets after being confronted by Democratic Sens. Tina Smith and Amy Klobuchar, each of Minnesota.
In the meantime, GOP Sen. Mike Rounds of South Dakota additionally refused to personally name out Lee.
“I’m at just a little little bit of a loss as a result of I don’t know what Senator Lee stated, however I can share with you {that a} overwhelming majority of us really feel horrible about the truth that these lawmakers misplaced their lives,” he informed Politico, utilizing the tried-and-true Republican tactic of avoiding criticizing their very own occasion by claiming to not have seen their abhorrent conduct.
And, after all, Sen. Tommy Tuberville of Alabama made the dumbest remark of all, saying that there’s “an excessive amount of rhetoric” and nothing may be accomplished to cease it.
“You’ll be able to speak about all of it you need, however it’s by no means going to occur,” Tuberville informed Politico. “I’ve been in sports activities all my life. All people is aggressive. They’re all the time going to push again. No one goes to surrender.”
Lee has not publicly apologized, and when reporters tried to ask him why he would publish one thing so terrible, he ran away.
Cowards.
