Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) toed the party line on Fox News Sunday, attempting to contrast prosecutions for the Capitol riot with the Secret Service not determining who brought cocaine to the White House.
But in invoking that cockeyed comparison, Cotton took a far greater leap than most. He had stood out in the aftermath of the riot as one of the most vocal Republican critics of Trump, the rioters and even fellow senators for their role in bringing it about.
That was conveniently forgotten by Cotton Sunday on Fox News.
“The government will dedicate thousands and thousands of agents to try to find every grandmother with a red MAGA hat on who was in Washington D.C. on January 6, yet they'll shut down an investigation of the cocaine at the White House in just a few days,” Cotton complained. “There is a lot of reform that needs to happen in the FBI.”
That’s not quite what Cotton was saying on the night of January 6, 2021, as reported by Forbes.
“Cotton called on Trump to finally admit defeat – calling it “past time to accept the results of the election” – and to “quit misleading the American people and repudiate mob violence,” Forbes reported.
“Cotton condemned the incident in harsh terms, labeling it an “insurrection,” noting he “called to send in the troops if necessary to restore order” and calling for the Trump supporters to “face the full extent of the law.”
Cotton hadn’t expressed concern about grandmothers in MAGA hats the next day on Fox News:
“(Cotton) said his colleagues' decision to object to President-elect Joe Biden's victory was in part a cynical ploy designed to elevate their future political aspirations,” Sinclair Broadcasting Group reported.
“You had some senators who, for political advantage, were giving false hope to their supporters, misleading them into thinking that somehow yesterday’s actions in Congress could reverse the results of the election or even get some kind of emergency audit of the election results,” Cotton said. “That was never going to happen."
