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In March of 2013 while serving as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives, Tom Cotton proposed punishing family members of anyone violating U.S. sanctions to Iran with up to 20 years in prison with “no investigation” or trial. According to Cotton, family members targeted for punishment include any relative to the third degree such […]
Fox News’ Megyn Kelly grilled Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) on Tuesday night’s edition of The Kelly File. Monday, the conservative Wall Street Journal called Cotton’s letter “a distraction,” allowing President to change the narrative on the ongoing nuclear negotiations: The problem with the GOP letter is that it’s a distraction from what should be the […]
Meet freshman Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR) the now infamous alleged author of the Republican open-letter to Iran. As Huffington Post reported back in January, Cotton proved to be “one of the most hardline foreign policy hawks” in the Senate less than a month into his first term as U.S. senator. During an appearance on CNN, […]
Republican hypocrisy is on full display the wake of the White House’s announcement that Pres. Obama had commuted the sentence of Chelsea Manning, the former Army intelligence analyst serving 35 years for giving classified information to WikiLeaks. Republican response to Manning’s commutation was swift, and at times brutal, as reported by Business Insider. “This is […]
Republican Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR), an Iraq war veteran and a hawk on foreign policy, endorsed former vice-president Dick Cheney as John Boehner‘s replacement as Speaker of the House of Representatives. “Look, these are trying times for our nation. It’s important to have a steady hand on the helm during times like this. I think […]