Y'know, the more I learn of Tommy Tuberville the more I find myself wondering why isn't this guy in jail by now?
I don't mean for all of the recent shenanigans he's been pulling that keeps making the news, like his saying he calls white nationalists "Americans" or his showing up on Fox "news" to parrot Putin propaganda.
Nor the fact that he’s a senator from Alabama yet is reportedly from Florida.
Nor even because of his damaging national security and aiding and abetting our adversaries by holding up a reported 301 military promotions, including reportedly leaving the Marine Corps without a leader for the first time in a century, and the Army and Navy without a confirmed top officer,
about which he has recently doubled down on his outright sabotage of our armed forces, by reportedly saying he doesn't care if anyone in America’s Armed Forces gets promoted - and all because of (wait, I think I jotted it down someplace here) "abortions in the military"? Really??
No, actually I've come to wonder what this joker is doing running around loose because, only a cursory look at THIS guy's RECORD (outside of athletics and coaching) reveals he was every bit the crook Trump was/is. i.e. another con-man who should've been locked the (heck) up a LONG TIME AGO.
As per Wikipedia:
After his 2020 election to the U.S. Senate Tuberville said that the three branches of federal government were "the House, the Senate, and the executive."
He was among a group of Republican senators who attempted to overturn Democratic president-elect Joe Biden's victory over Trump in the 2020 election (which in MY book makes him a co-conspirator to insurrection).
He voted in support of objections to Arizona's and Pennsylvania's electoral votes, both of which were won by Biden, and one of less than seven GOP senators who supported this.
On May 28, 2021, he voted against creating an independent commission to investigate the Capitol attack (for reasons which should be quite obvious by now, I think).
(As I mentioned above) on May 10, 2023, Tuberville was asked in an interview whether he believed white nationalists should be allowed to serve in the military. to which he replied, "I call them Americans." And in July 2023 he denied white nationalists are inherently racist.
Financially, his record is equally questionable:
In February 2012, seven investors sued Tuberville and a partner, saying they were defrauded of more than $1.7 million that they invested from 2008 to 2011. Tuberville's attorneys denied the allegations.
Tuberville settled an investor lawsuit in October 2013 on undisclosed terms, claiming that he was also a victim.
In 2014, he founded the Tommy Tuberville Foundation, whose purpose was, according to its website, "to recognize and support organizations and causes that connect with the beliefs and values of the Tuberville family, including "assisting our military and veterans." (well... so much for THAT, eh?)
Through its first five years, the foundation raised $289,599 but spent just $51,658 on charitable causes, at a rate of 18%... FAR less than the 65% that the Better Business Bureau says ethical charities should spend on their causes.
In 2020, the Associated Press called the Tuberville Foundation "a questionable charity that raises money but gives very little away."
In 2020, The New York Times reported that his campaign and foundation officials "produced 2018 internal records that showed nearly $20,000 was raised for a temporary project to provide a retreat for veterans.
But this raised bookkeeping questions, since they showed more than $61,000 of 2018 revenue, roughly twice what the charity reported to the IRS.
He also said that he was looking forward to raising money from his Senate office, a violation of federal law.
In 2021, the WAPO reported, the foundation "reported $74,101 in revenue but spent just 12 percent of that, or $9,000,
while $32,000 went to "administrative costs." By the end of 2021, the foundation's website had "gone defunct."
In February 2022, Tuberville dismissed proposals to ban lawmakers from trading stocks.
According to Business Insider, Tuberville violated the STOCK Act 132 times in 2021. (whaaa??)
Tuberville was among 31 Senate Republicans who voted against final passage of the Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023. (...the devil you say!)
And in July 2023, a spokesperson for Tuberville said that his foundation had been "under audit" and had paused its activities, but that Tuberville was reforming it. (source: Wikipedia)
Yeah. I'll BET he is.