In an interview on Real America's Voice Wednesday, Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) falsely claimed that the National Guard sent home Trump supporters after the Jan 6., 2021 Capitol riot.
Speaking with former Trump adviser and podcaster Steve Bannon, Tuberville recalled that the riots of Jan. 6, 2021, happened on his first day in Washington, D.C.
"We had the protest, and there were no National Guard people," Tuberville told Bannon. "Well, the next day we bring in [25,000] National Guard people, Nancy Pelosi did, and the first thing they did is they went through all of them and said, are you a Trump supporter? If you were, they sent your butt home."
"No way," Bannon replied.
"Oh yeah," Tuberville insisted. "They did not want white supremacist[s] or Black supremacist[s]. Anybody that believed in our country, they want you to believe in the federal government."
There is no evidence to support Tuberville's claim, that either that the Guard rejected Trump supporters or that the Guard was specifically singling out white or Black supremacists at the time of the riot. It also appears that Tuberville's allegation that there were 25,000 Guard members deployed was inflated; the Guard reported having fewer than 10,000 members present on Jan. 6, 2021(though more than 25,000 were present at Biden's inauguration, some two weeks later). But Bannon continued to elicit false information from Tuberville.
"And so they weeded out the Trump supporters from the National Guard?" Bannon asked.
"Yeah, sure," the senator falsely said. "They did. It was twenty-five thousand of them."
Tuberville said Donald Trump would remedy the situation "when" he is re-elected.
"We need to have a total readjustment," he opined. "I've talked to President Trump about this."
"We've talked a plan about military down the down the pipe, you know, when — when he gets elected, not if, because we — we have to we have to turn the ship around."
