Alabama Senator Tommy Tuberville is ripped apart by his predecessor for downplaying white nationalists in the military.
two Ku Klux Klan members who bombed Birmingham’s 16th Baptist Church in 1963, killing four girls. On Sunday morning, Jones offered harsh words for his successor, former Auburn football coachinterview
last Monday with a public radio station in Birmingham, Tuberville, a member of the Senate Armed Forces Committee, was asked whether he believed “white nationalists” should be able to serve in the military. The Biden administration has made countering extremism in the military a major domestic priority in the wake of the January 6 attack; nearlyrioters who have been charged are military veterans.
“He has this history of saying these things,” Jones said during a Sunday morning appearance on MSNBC. “This is a man who when he was running for Senate did not even know what the Voting Rights Act was.” Jones was referencing during the 2020 campaign in which Tuberville was asked about expanding the Voting Rights Act and struggled to explain the basic contents of the law.
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