ā€œPeople in our caucusā€¦ to me, theyā€™re not really taking this as serious as we should,ā€ Tuberville said. ā€œAmerican people need to wake up. This is a war; this is a war on our Constitutional rights, our constitutional republic. This is not as much about Donald Trump as it is about the people in this country.ā€

Tuberville also claimed that Democrats were ā€œantiā€-American, insisting that the liberal party was looking to strip citizens of their privacy and censorship rights while conveniently forgetting that it was Republican leadership who pushed through the reauthorization of a domestic spy program in April and who are continuing to press for literary censorship in majority conservative states such as Florida.

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    Whatā€™s the issue they have with this verdict? It was handed down by a jury of 12 of his peers. One of them was even a follower of his on Truth social. Unanimous on all 34 counts. So again I ask, what is the issue?

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      I read that the ā€œTruth Socialā€ juror actually just read posts on Twitter/X where he saw reposts about what he said on TSā€¦ and that he wasnā€™t actually a follower on that platform. Could be wrong, but thought I should point that out.

      But yes, what problem do they have on the verdict? Either he and others of his ilk are lying or they really believe in conspiracies.