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Tom Cotton: NBA Should Force Chamath Palihapitiya to Sell Stake in Warriors

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Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) on Tuesday called on the National Basketball Association to force Golden State Warriors part-owner Chamath Palihapitiya to sell his stake in the team after he claimed “nobody cares” about Communist China’s genocide of the Uyghurs in the country’s Xinjiang region.

“Woke CEO Chamath Palihapitiya said no one cares about the Chinese Communist Party’s mass enslavement, torture, and rape of religious minorities. He may be so callous that he doesn’t care about genocide, but the American people do,” Cotton said in a statement.

“The NBA has investigated owners and forced a sale after outrageous comments before, and it even moved the All-Star game to protest a North Carolina law saying boys and girls shouldn’t use the same bathroom. The league will prove itself greedy, spineless, and hypocritical if it doesn’t force Palihapitiya to sell his interest in the Warriors,” the lawmaker concluded.

Palihapitiya set off a firestorm this week when he declared that he did not care about the industrial-scale persecution of the Uyghurs.

Breitbart News previously reported:

During his All-In podcast interview, Palihapitiya waved off concerns about China’s ongoing genocide against the Uyghurs, saying, “Nobody cares about what’s happening to the Uyghurs.”

Palihapitiya, the CEO of Societal Capital which boasts that its call is “solving the world’s hardest problems,” shocked podcast host David Sacks when he dismissed concerns about the enslavement of millions of Chinese Uyghurs because he feels no one cares about them. Palihapitiya went on to add that he has other priorities to worry about.

In addition to being a part-owner of the Warriors and a venture capitalist, Palihapitiya is also a major donor to the Democrat Party. He donated over $1 million to Democrats in the previous election cycle, including a $250,000 check to the Biden Victory Fund.

Palihapitiya made headlines last year when he teased a potential recall challenge to California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) but ultimately did not go through with a bid.

Cotton: 'Biden Has Not Just Had a Bad Week — He's Had a Bad 52 Weeks'

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During an appearance on Monday’s broadcast of FNC’s “Fox News Primetime,” Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) commented on President Joe Biden’s lackluster performance thus far in his presidency, which is encouraging more people more than ever to register Republican.

Cotton also told host Pete Hegseth that should Republicans retake the U.S. Senate, they would have their differences. However, he said they would be united against Biden’s spending proposals.

“I agree that Joe Biden has not just had a bad week, he’s had a bad 52 weeks,” he said. “A lot of what you see now are the chickens coming home to roost of Joe Biden’s bad decisions going back a year. Look at inflation. For instance, this didn’t just start in July or August or September. It started on the first day of Joe Biden’s presidency when he began to impose more red tape on businesses trying to produce the goods that our economy needs. Or when the Democrats spent $2 trillion wastefully last March. Or look at Vladimir Putin massing hundreds of thousands of troops on the border of Ukraine.”

That didn’t just happen in a vacuum. It happened in the context of Joe Biden’s historic incompetence and weakness last August in the withdrawal from Afghanistan,” Cotton added. “So, Republicans have our differences, to be sure. And we may have more differences if we have more than 50 senators after this election. I’d like to see us have 55 or 56 senators, and we’ll work through those differences. But one thing we are united and you saw on that wasteful spending bill in March with a $5 trillion blowout bill they tried to pass in December. You see now in their federal election takeover is stopping the radical Democratic agenda.”

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Chuck Schumer’s Case for Keeping the Filibuster

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Arkansas GOP senator Tom Cotton took to the Senate floor on Wednesday to make the case for keeping the filibuster using only Chuck Schumer’s words: 

Sen. Tom Cotton passionately defends filibuster in speech written entirely from Chuck Schumer's past statements

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Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton (R) highlighted the blatant hypocrisy of Democrats, and particularly of Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), in an impassioned speech consisting entirely of Schumer’s past statements defending the legislative filibuster.

Ahead of President Joe Biden’s scheduled meeting with Democratic lawmakers to discuss a strategy to change the Senate’s rules and ram through his agenda, Cotton took to the Senate floor Wednesday to remind everyone how Schumer vigorously opposed such efforts in the past.

“Right now we are on the precipice of a constitutional crisis. We are about to step into the abyss,” Cotton said, quoting from a 2005 speech Schumer gave denouncing the so-called “nuclear option” of eliminating the filibuster — a 60-vote requirement to advance legislation in the Senate.


For months now, Schumer has attempted to persuade moderate Democrats to vote to end the filibuster to pass a federal overhaul of U.S. elections, as well as the majority of Biden’s economic agenda. On Jan. 3, he sent a letter to his Democratic colleagues announcing that the Senate would vote on a rules change, which led to widespread condemnation from Republicans and accusations of flagrant hypocrisy.

After all, as Cotton demonstrated, Schumer has a lengthy record of statements castigating Republicans for considering the nuclear option.

“Are senators merely doing their jobs as legislators, responding to a generalized public calling for the abolition of the filibuster? Clearly not,” Cotton said, reading from Schumer’s speech.

“It is not the American people at large who are demanding detonation of the nuclear option,” he said. “The nuclear option is being pushed largely by the radioactive rhetoric of a small band of radicals who hold in their hands the political fortunes of the president.”

Cotton also quoted from a speech Schumer gave in 2003, vigorously defending the filibuster as “embodied in the spirit and rule of the Constitution.”

“The Senate is not a majoritarian body,” Cotton quoted, thumping his podium for emphasis and mimicking Schumer’s speech patterns as he read through a litany of increasingly outrageous predictions the top Democrat made denouncing the nuclear option.

Schumer is not the only Democrat to flip his position on the filibuster. Biden, a former senator, also gave a 2005 speech passionately defending the filibuster.

“I think it may be one of the most important speeches for historical purposes that I will have given in the 32 years since I have been in the Senate,” Biden said at the time. “At its core, the filibuster is not about stopping a nominee or a bill — it’s about compromise and moderation,” he explained.

But in remarks given Tuesday, the president said Democratic lawmakers should change the Senate’s rules and advance a sweeping federal overhaul of U.S. elections to undo GOP-supported election integrity laws.

Biden will meet with the Senate Democratic Caucus on Thursday to “discuss the urgent need to pass legislation to protect the constitutional right to vote and the integrity of our elections against un-American attacks based on the Big Lie, and to again underline that doing so requires changing the rules of the Senate to make the institution work again,” a White House official said Wednesday.

Democratic references to the “Big Lie” refer to former President Donald Trump’s unproven allegations that the 2020 presidential election was fraudulent.

Regardless of the president’s backing and Schumer’s hypocrisy, Senate Democrats lack the votes to end the filibuster. Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) reaffirmed his support for the filibuster hours before Biden delivered his speech on Tuesday. Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.) also remains opposed to ending the filibuster, as do several other lawmakers including Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.), who have so far flown under the radar while the two aforementioned senators have captured the attention and scorn of the mainstream media.

Washington Post forced to update fact-check after GOP senator proven right about COVID stimulus payment to Boston bomber

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The Washington Post has updated a fact-check from last March that gave Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) two Pinocchios for predicting that the Boston bomber, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, would get a coronavirus stimulus check after Democrats blocked an amendment to prevent stimulus funds from going to prisoners.

“We received an email from Cotton’s press secretary, James Arnold, who noted that Tsarnaev did indeed receive a stimulus check. This news emerged in a filing made by the Justice Department seeking to seize the money for criminal restitution he still owes,” Washington Post fact-checker Glenn Kessler wrote Thursday in an update to his March 9 fact-check.

The Post had reviewed claims made by Senate Republicans after Democrats blocked an amendment from Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) to the fast-tracked coronavirus stimulus bill. Cassidy’s amendment would have prevented the treasury secretary from sending stimulus checks to any individual in prison. On March 8, Cotton warned that Tsarnaev could be one of many prisoners who would get a $1,400 check from U.S. taxpayers because Democrats killed the Cassidy amendment.


“The left recognizes that this was a bad idea and that they’re going to pay a price at the polls. Get ready for campaign ads,” Cotton wrote on Twitter.

Republicans said the amendment was a necessary fix to correct a 2019 ruling by a federal judge that blocked the Internal Revenue Service from creating regulations to deny stimulus payments to prisoners.

The Washington Post accused Cotton of “scaremongering.” Kessler cited prisoner advocates who pointed out that Cotton and other Republicans voted for previous coronavirus stimulus bills that lacked the language excluding prisoners in the Cassidy amendment. He also quoted the argument Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) made on the Senate floor that claimed the Cassidy amendment would harm the families of prisoners, who are disproportionately black.

The Post said the Cassidy amendment was “not serious legislation,” dismissing Cotton’s warnings as campaign rhetoric and handing down a rating of two Pinocchios, meaning there were “significant omissions and/or exaggerations” in his claim.

However, on Wednesday a court filing revealed that Tsarnaev, who was convicted in 2015 for bombing the Boston Marathon, received a $1,400 stimulus payment. He has been ordered by prosecutors to return the taxpayer funds, along with any other money sent to him.

Cotton’s press secretary, James Arnold, wrote to the Post demanding an immediate correction to last March’s erroneous fact-check.

“You portrayed Senator Cotton’s amendment as pure political theater—’not serious legislation’—warning of an outcome that, according to your article, was very unlikely to happen,” Arnold wrote. “Now that it has in fact happened, we’re asking that you update your story to include that Senator Cotton’s concerns did come true and that his amendment would have prevented it.”

Arnold added that Cotton’s office disagreed with the Post’s characterization of the Cassidy amendment as “crafted for future campaign ads” rather than acknowledging “legitimate policy disagreements” between Republicans and Democrats, specifically objecting to the phrase “scaremongering.”

In the update, Kessler acknowledged Cotton’s “predictive powers.”

“He said the Boston bomber would get a stimulus check — and Tsarnaev did. Now, if the government is successful, this money will go to victims. So Tsarnaev still will not keep it. But in retrospect, the use of the phrase of ‘scaremongering’ was inappropriate,” Kessler wrote. “Cotton had raised a legitimate issue of concern, even if he framed it in a political way. The term ‘hyped up’ in the headline went too far as well.

“Thus, we will reduce the rating on this claim to One Pinocchio — our version of ‘mostly true.’ His statement still lacks some context but he was certainly correct that Tsarnaev would receive a stimulus check.”

In a statement to Fox News Digital, Cotton blasted Democrats for voting against the Cassidy amendment and permitting COVID-19 stimulus funds to go to prisoners like Tsarnaev.

“Every single Senate Democrat voted to send COVID relief payments to prisoners, including terrorists and mass murderers like the Boston Bomber,” Cotton said. “Each dollar Dzhokhar Tsarnaev receives should go to the families of those he brutally injured and killed.”