A well-known fact-checker is one of those who criticized US Senator Tom Cotton after the Arkansas Republican was caught lambasting President Joe Biden’s COVID Relief Act, which will send a check to the Boston Bomber.
In a multi-day chatter, Cotton attacked the Democrats and President Biden’s US bailout plan, for which no Republican had voted in the Senate – Republicans voted not to aid the American people in the middle of a year-long pandemic. The bill, like the two previous Trump-era bills, does not exclude people in jail. As many noted on social media, people in prison also have families and are also affected by the pandemic.
The Arkansas senator, who has ambitions to be president in 2024, posted tweets like this one in which he warned in the most extreme of ways that prisoners will be given checks.
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the Boston bomber, murdered three people and terrorized a city.
He will receive a $ 1,400 stimulus check as part of the Democrats’ COVID Relief bill.
– Tom Cotton (@TomCottonAR) March 6, 2021
Dylann Roof murdered nine people. He is on federal death row.
He will receive a $ 1,400 stimulus check as part of the Democrats’ COVID Relief bill.
– Tom Cotton (@TomCottonAR) March 6, 2021
Cotton, as noted by CNN’s Daniel Dale and others, did not vote for Biden’s relief bill, but he did vote twice for President Donald Trump’s COVID relief laws, which also mailed checks to detainees.
He then tried to hold a “liberal” federal judge responsible for prisoners who received checks.
“They say, ‘CARES – which were passed unanimously – also sent checks to prisoners.’ But they omit that this is only because a liberal federal judge ordered it because of government objections * months after the law was passed. * ”
Dale didn’t let this go unchallenged.
“No,” the CNN fact checker tweeted. “Prisoners were given checks under the Trump-signed, cotton-backed CARES Act * because nothing in the law says that prisoners should not be given checks. * After signing, the IRS stated that no prisoners are allowed. The judge overturned the IRS because the law didn’t say so. “
Cotton then went ballistic again with another “Boston Bomber” tweet attacking Democrats.
Did Senate Democrats explain why they voted “no” to this amendment to keep the Boston Bomber from receiving a stimulus check? pic.twitter.com/zS5XmGV8Gt
– Tom Cotton (@TomCottonAR) March 8, 2021
And other “murderers”.
If Democrats want to avoid the political ramifications of sending stimulus checks to murderers in prison, they should have voted differently. pic.twitter.com/Ti3bCnyMkC
– Tom Cotton (@TomCottonAR) March 8, 2021
“Cotton’s attack on Democrats was repeated on Twitter by North Carolina Rep. Madison Cawthorn on Sunday,” wrote Dale on CNN. “Fox News, meanwhile, has turned Cotton’s tweets into a threatening headline on the front page of its website: ‘FUNDING CONVICTED KILLERS. The democratic COVID bill gives mass murderers tax money straight out of their pockets. ‘“
He was not doing well.
Tom Cotton voted to send stimulus checks to the rioters who attacked the Capitol.
– BDL (@bigdaddyleisure) March 8, 2021
I love how Tom Cotton leaves out the fact that if you were married to someone in jail it would cut your refund too. The devil is always in the details Tom. Guess what? Some of us actually read the amendments.
– Colleen Anderson (@ ColleenAnderso2) March 8, 2021
Cotton voted for it. pic.twitter.com/p9OdGUGMyh
– RamRog (@ RamRog3) March 8, 2021
Jesus @SenTomCotton, you are a dishonest weasel. Trump’s #CovidReliefBill also gave money to prisoners, you said nothing. #TomCotton https://t.co/EbODq81HXn
– Z-Diddy ™ (@Ziggy_Daddy) March 8, 2021
Makes sense since @SenTomCotton @TomCottonAR is a Republican. Your platform is to lie down and distract you.
– Susan (@ Susan_M65) March 8, 2021
@ SenTomCotton Stop lying! https://t.co/bAOKmEzKld
– Ursula M. ???? # Give Joe a chance # Trump4Jail (@ UrsulaMyers13) March 8, 2021
Yet no one will publish this headline: “Tom Cotton has voted twice to give aid to prisoners.”
The left lets the right win an asymmetrical war of words
– Steve Cohen (@ stevec22) March 8, 2021
#LyingTom @SenTomCotton https://t.co/oGqfk6Bvel
– Saintsswimmom (@Saintsswimmom) March 8, 2021
As your constituent, I would like to know why you have voted twice in the past to give stimulus checks to murderers, rapists, terrorists, etc.! Where were you concerned then? Buried somewhere under your blind loyalty to making Trump look good?
– Jane Elliot meets Hank Green (@ MrsBiology101) on March 8, 2021
It should come as no surprise to anyone that Tom Cotton is a malevolent hypocrite.
Malicious hypocrisy is the platform of the Republican Party https://t.co/SZD6aNP2VR
– MICHA? LB? RNST? IN (@ MBerns247) March 8, 2021
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