Tim Scott blasts Nancy Pelosi, asks why a woman with $24k fridge wants to jump into 'race politics pit'?
Senator Tim Scott, on Friday, June 25, slammed House Speaker Nancy Pelosi for her 'outrageous, sinful' remark that Republicans are attempting to "'get away with murder...the murder of George Floyd." The South Carolina Republican, the party's only black senator, made the statement while responding to the Democrat leader's remarks about his JUSTICE Act police reform bill.
Pelosi, on Tuesday, June 23, denounced the Republican bill in an interview with CBS Radio, calling it "unsalvageable," adding that it won't make "any difference" in tacking the current issue of police brutality in our country. "For something to happen, they're going to have to face the realities of police brutalities, the realities of the need for justice in policing, and the recognition that there are many good people in law enforcement, but not all," Pelosi said of Republicans.
"And that we have to address those concerns. So, when they admit that, and have some suggestions that are worthy of consideration — but so far they were trying to get away with murder, actually — the murder of George Floyd," the Democrat said.
Scott responded to her statement while appearing on Fox News, saying: "It was the most outrageous, sinful comment I've heard as a public official, period. I thought to myself, 'How in the world does this woman, standing in front of a $24,000 refrigerator, have the sense to jump into the bottomless pit of race politics? Why in the world would she want to do that?"
The Republican senator continued: "There's only one answer, by the way, one answer. It's because she's lived so long in a state of privilege that she has forgotten that it's the Republican Party that voted more for the Civil Rights-era legislation than the Democrats. It's because she's forgotten that it was President Trump and the criminal justice reform done in 2018 that made up for the Democrats' 1994 crime bill. She's forgotten that it's the school choice movement that frees more kids in poverty from the poor education system brought to us by the Democrats and the teachers' unions then they've ever seen."
"She has forgotten so much about reality that she spends too much time in an alternate universe. But the facts are simple," Scott added. "Why in the world would she stoop so low? And it's simply this: They believe — and I truly believe this — they believe that campaigning on police brutality is more important than solving police reform."
The Senate Democrats, on Wednesday, June 24, blocked Scott's JUSTICE Act as the measure fell five votes short of the 60 needed to be cleared. Meanwhile, House Democrats, on Friday, passed their own bill, however, it appears unlikely that the Senate will take it up. President Donald Trump has also vowed to veto the House Democrats' bill.
Scott's remarks came at a time when Pelosi received flak on Friday, June 26, for forgetting George Floyd's name while she declared the Democrats' police reform that had been named after George Floyd. In her statement, she said that the bill was worthy of "George Kirby's name." She made the statement while speaking to reporters at the time. Floyd, an unarmed black man, died in police custody in Minneapolis on May 25 this year, while George Kirby was a black comedian and singer who was popular in the 60s and 70s who passed away in 1995.