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Floor Speech

January 6, 2021 was my first day here on the job in the U.S. Senate. Let's be clear about what happened that day. Let's go back and look at it. Democrats and the deep state, they hated Donald Trump so much that they orchestrated a coup against our government. Let me explain this.

It first started with the tampering of the 2020 Presidential election results to oust President Trump and to install the woke globalists' favorite Joe Biden. As a result, great American patriots gathered in Washington to peacefully protest the illegal tampering of the 2020 Presidential election.

When the leader of the Democratic Party at the time Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the deep state learned that Trump supporters--and we all knew it--were headed to Washington, DC, to peacefully protest the fraudulent 2020 Presidential election results, they saw a great opportunity.

Speaker Pelosi spearheaded the true January 6 insurrection. This has all been proven to be true. Everybody knows it. She said it on tape. She admitted the responsibility for massive security failures that day. The deep state infiltrated the crowd with antifa and intelligence community members who would instigate trouble and massive chaos.

The FBI has confirmed that there were 274 FBI agents in plain clothes at the Capitol here that day.

Then Speaker Pelosi set up Capitol Police to fail by refusing to bring the National Guard in as backup; she admitted that. And then, of course, Democrats placed all the blame on President Trump and Republicans. I can remember it vividly that night, about midnight, we all took the blame here. After we came back that night, the Democrats called all the Republicans in this room everything that you can imagine, here on this floor. It was clear that they were planning that day that they were going after President Trump.

But the Democrats' plan to destroy President Trump and his supporters didn't end that day on January 6; for the next 4 years, President Biden and the Democrats did everything they could to arrest, harass, bankrupt, deplatform, and even tried to kill the former President of the United States Donald Trump, not to mention the Biden DOJ abusing their power by wasting almost $3 billion in taxpayer funds to go after innocent--innocent--Trump supporters, fraudulently imprisoning them to intimidate their political opponents and the greater MAGA movement.

Hundreds, and I mean hundreds of innocent patriotic Americans sat behind bars for the past 5 years over this made-up witch hunt. Now, there were some guilty, but a huge number of them were vastly innocent. They even arrested grandmas for making phone calls on the Capitol steps, and the only person who died that day on January 6 was Ashli Babbitt an unarmed Air Force veteran who was shot that day in this very building. Ashli Babbitt was wrongfully killed on January 6, 2021. The Federal Government admitted it, and they actually paid money to her family, paid money. In the legal settlement they paid money.

Lives were ruined. Families were torn apart, careers were destroyed, all because lunatics on the left in our country would not let it go, and anyone who was involved in it was arrested.

So before we quickly try to pass a bill with a nice-sounding title, we ought to read what it actually does. Democrats claim this bill is about stopping so-called rewards for January 6 rioters, but in reality, the legislation says if the Federal Government prosecuted you, Congress can't even ask if the prosecution was fair, if the sentence was appropriate, if the evidence was handled properly, if detention conditions were lawful, or whether the government threw the book at you because you were a supporter of a political opponent. You can't even ask that.

This bill treats prosecution--prosecution--as proof, and that is not how American justice works. That is not how our justice system works.

Thankfully, Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche and the Trump Department of Justice established a standard--a standard--and lawful process to hear from American citizens who suffered lawfare or weaponization under the Biden administration. If they were wronged, the Trump administration will provide compensation from the Anti- Weaponization Fund. But if S. 3582 is passed, it would eliminate that process for American-loving Trump supporters who were wrongfully convicted before their claims are even reviewed.

In the future, the Federal Government--because of this bill--would be empowered to target a group of people, prosecute them, and make sure they never receive relief no matter what the facts. And there were some bad things that went on.

Radical Democrats and the deep-state folks do not like this country, and they dislike it so much--the way it is run--that they will do whatever it takes to weaponize our judicial system against anyone who opposes their globalist agenda. That is why I will not consent to this bill that treats prosecution as proof and blocks individualized review. That is not how this country works.

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