Sen Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) said he does not regret anything he did on Jan. 6, 2021, in response to criticism he has received from politicians and media on the political left for persisting with his plans to challenge the electoral votes during the Senate session on that day.
“What I did was stand up for election integrity, and also for the voters of my state,” Hawley said on Epoch TV’s “Crossroads” program on July 22. “I think leading a debate on the floor of the Senate about election integrity is what the Senate is there for.”
In 2016, the Hillary Clinton presidential campaign paid an operative with ties to Russia to lie to the FBI and to obtain a warrant from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to surveil the Trump campaign and his associates, Hawley explained, noting that the Democrats “have pioneered this” and that Clinton, “to this day, says that the election was stolen from her.”…