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GOP Sen Loses His Mind Over Female Bishop Who Challenged Trump

The Alabama senator insisted it was Rev. Mariann Budde who was the one “spewing hate.”

Alabama Sen. Tommy Tuberville joined the list of Republicans who have taken issue with pointed statements made by Rev. Mariann Budde Tuesday toward President Donald Trump during the inaugural prayer service at the Washington National Cathedral.

On Newsmax’s The Todd Starnes Show, Tuberville was asked about Trump being “lectured” by the bishop, as Starnes put it. Tuberville suggested that Budde, who asked Trump to “have mercy...on those in our communities whose children fear that their parents will be taken away” as part of his pledged mass deportations, was “spew[ing] hate.”

“You think you’ve seen it all,” Tuberville said. “Of course, I’ve been up here in this clown show for four years in Congress and watch the radical left just spew hate all over the place and push an agenda that I don’t even recognize.”

Budde also told Trump, who signed an executive order Monday requiring the federal government recognize two genders: “There are gay, lesbian, and transgender children in Democratic, Republican and independent families—some who fear for their lives.”

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Nevertheless, Tuberville insisted that “for this Bishop to do this to President Trump after a weekend of...talking about God more than ever, talking about how he was spared to give an opportunity maybe to change this country back to something that should be—it just absolutely amazes me how far these people go.”

Tuberville also couldn’t pass up a chance to gripe about the “mainstream media.”

“And it’s not just the this bishop. Up here today we’ve got the mainstream media. They have absolutely lost their mind over all these executive orders and the January 6 protesters being pardoned. They don’t say anything about about Joe [Biden] pardoning his family or the eight thousand other people,” Tuberville asserted, despite Biden’s 11th-hour preemptive pardons of family members, his earlier pardon of his son, Hunter, and his thousands of commutations of nonviolent drug offenders all receiving extensive coverage.

“It is going to be four years of just listening to them just spew hate all over the place,” Tuberville insisted, “and we’ve just got to keep fighting back at the end of the day.”

Tuberville’s comments came shortly after another southern lawmaker, Georgia Rep. Mike Collins, lashed out by demanding that Budde—who was born in New Jersey—be deported.

“The person giving this sermon should be added to the deportation list,” Collins wrote on X.

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