Army vet shreds Dem Rep for ‘ridiculous’ remark about dangerous troops: You’ve no business leading this country
West Point graduate Jeremy Hunt called out the Tennessee Democrat for questioning the loyalty of 25,000 troops who have been deployed to the nation’s capital for Biden’s inauguration on Wednesday, calling it “absolutely ridiculous” and blasting him for exploiting an intelligence report to score political points.
With reports that the U.S. Military was running background checks and the FBI was conducting additional vetting of the Guard troops, Cohen weighed in on CNN, recounting how former India Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was assassinated by her own bodyguards, as he suggested some within National Guard could be suspicious.
“I think the Guard is 90-some-odd-percent I believe male, only about 20% of white males voted for Biden,” Cohen, a member of the House Judiciary Committee, said, adding that “there are probably not more than 25% of the people there that are protecting us that voted for Biden, the other 75% are in the class that would be the large class of folks who might want to do something.”