Josh Hawley Blasts Lie He Incited Riot As Missouri Newspaper Calls Him FrankenHawley
On 2/5/21 at 9:54 AM EST
Sen. Josh Hawley has told a Missouri news channel that lawmakers accusing him of inciting the Capitol riots are part of a woke mob as he faces growing calls from his home state to resign.
Hawley was among the GOP lawmakers who rejected the Electoral College results that delivered the White House to President Joe Biden. Supporters of Donald Trump spurred by these false claims of election fraud stormed the Capitol on January 6, leading to five deaths.
After donors and local figures distanced themselves from the senator, Hawley gave a bullish response when asked by KTVO whether he had helped incite the mob and was putting his political career ahead of his constituents.
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‘He’s clearly laying groundwork’: Hawley paves 2024 path
The Missouri Republican is the only senator to oppose every one of Biden’s Cabinet nominees to date.
The youngest senator when he was elected in 2018, Josh Hawley is a soaring orator with a sense for tapping into Trump’s confrontational style of populist
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The face of the Biden resistance is taking shape in the Senate: Josh Hawley.
In a prelude to a widely expected 2024 presidential bid, the Missouri Republican is the only senator to oppose every one of President Joe Biden’s Cabinet nominees a distinction sealed Tuesday when he voted against confirming new Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg. Hawley briefly held up the confirmation of another Cabinet official, for the Department of Homeland Security.
‘Bring Trump to justice’: Missouri paper says Hawley should back impeachment or resign Josh Marcus
Trump impeachment lawyer says Capitol riot had ‘nothing’ to do with him
One of the major papers in Senator Josh Hawley’s home state of Missouri is calling on the Republican to either back former president Donald Trump’s impeachment or resign if he wants to consider himself a true defender of “law and order.”
“The sole responsibility left to Hawley and his colleagues is to enforce the law and bring Trump to justice,” the
St. Louis Post-Dispatch wrote in an editorial on Monday. “Because any elected official who has law enforcement responsibility and won’t do it needs to resign.”
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