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Thom Tillis: “They better not have said for one minute that the people who beat up police officers, like these right down here, were…”

On the recordJune 9, 2026
They better not have said for one minute that the people who beat up police officers, like these right down here, were righteous people.
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Thom Tillis
Republican · North Carolina

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Commenting on the January 6 rioters.

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