Josh Hawley gets completely owned for trying to pull off maybe his most shameless attack yet
Department of Homeland Secretary Sec. Alejandro Mayorkas, whose mother was a Holocaust survivor, pushed back against Hawley for suggesting he was promoting antisemitism.
Josh Hawley can’t stop embarrassing himself at congressional hearings.
The quick-footed senator went on the attack Tuesday against Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, due to an employee’s antisemitic social media posts in the wake of Israel’s ongoing war against Hamas.
Hawley suggested the employee’s views speak for the department, which Mayorkas pushed back on. But Hawley, never one to shy away from a possible viral moment, kept interrupting the secretary.
“Your performance is despicable, and the fact you’re not willing to provide answers to this community is absolutely atrocious,” he bellowed.
Mayorkas, who said he couldn’t comment on an ongoing personnel matter and mentioned the person in question was hired in 2019, responded with an all-out assault on Hawley’s attention-seeking soliloquies.
“What I find despicable is the indication that this language, tremendously odious, could actually be emblematic of the sentiments of the 260,000 men and women of the Department of Homeland Security,” he said.
And that was just the start of Mayorkas’ retort. The secretary also brought up that his mother was a Holocaust survivor.
That’s right: Hawley was accusing someone whose own mother labored in the concentration camps of being complicit in the spread of antisemitism.
How utterly shameless.
“Senator Hawley takes an adversarial approach to me in this question, and perhaps he doesn’t know my own background,” said Mayorkas.
“Perhaps he doesn’t know that I am the child of a Holocaust survivor. Perhaps he does not know that my mother lost almost all of her family at the hands of the Nazis. So I find his adversarial tone to be entirely misplaced. I find it to be disrespectful of me and my heritage. And I do not expect an apology, but I did want to say what I just articulated.”
Don’t come for Mayorkas, Garland, and Blinken with this performative crap. They feel this more deeply than Hawley could even imagine. https://t.co/zi5TfKoYOO— Jessica Tarlov (@JessicaTarlov) October 31, 2023
Ignoramus Josh Hawley called the son of a Holocaust survivor “despicable” for alleged indifference to antisemitism. Mayorkas flattened the Christian Nationalist. https://t.co/IHUOltPRHY— Henry Porter (@HenryPorters) October 31, 2023
Hawley’s behavior Tuesday is par for the course. The senator is allll about showing off his supposed manhood, which he wrote an entire book about, by the way!
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo) begins his line of questioning by asking NCAA president Charlie Baker about the anti-Israeli statements from several student groups across the organization.
Baker says that any unprovoked attacks on innocent people should be condemned.— Ross Dellenger (@RossDellenger) October 17, 2023
Getting bested in rhetorical combat by the *head of the NCAA* is among the most embarrassing things (though obvs not at the top of the list) that this man will achieve in his entire career https://t.co/U3LfzlOK7d— Alex Kirshner (@alex_kirshner) October 17, 2023
Hawley is the definition of a performative politician, as evidenced by his cowardly behavior on January 6. Though the anti-gay senator raised his fist in solidarity with the crowd of Trump supporters outside the Capitol, he fled when they stormed the building.
Hawley wants to project so much masculinity. Instead, he keeps coming across as an obsequious coward.
