Sen. Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, rhetorically teed off on Sen. Josh Hawley on Thursday, delivering a ferocious condemnation over the Missouri Republican’s refusal to confirm President Joe Biden’s Defense Department nominees.
Hawley, who infamously raised a fist in solidarity with the horde that gathered outside the U.S. Capitol before the Jan. 6 riot, has vowed to block all state and Pentagon nominees unless Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin resign.
His reason? Hawley claims he’s doing this because Americans died as the Biden administration executed its military withdrawal from Afghanistan last year, and he says the administration isn’t giving Ukraine enough military support.
Those claims obviously strain credulity. Hawley doesn’t seem to care about defending the U.S. or Ukraine. If he did, he wouldn’t have supported the plot to overthrow the 2020 election or egged on Jan. 6 rallygoers. And if he cared about protecting Ukraine, he wouldn’t have voted to acquit then-President Donald Trump, who withheld military aid to Ukraine in an effort to get the country’s president to dig up dirt on Biden.
Watch below as Schatz flames Hawley for his hypocrisy:
“This comes from a guy who raised his fist in solidarity with the insurrectionists.” Senator Brian Schatz destroys Josh Hawley on the Senate floor. pic.twitter.com/UAVQ3ksiYe
— Mike Sington (@MikeSington) April 8, 2022
Ja’han Jones is an MS NOW opinion blogger. He previously wrote The ReidOut Blog.