A Republican senator from Alabama found himself issuing an awkward clarification on Wednesday after attempting to knock President Joe Biden for his efforts to rid the US military of white nationalists and other right-wing extremists.
Sen Tommy Tuberville was speaking with a local radio station on Monday when he first made the comments in response to a question about Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin’s work to weed out persons with ties to dangerous extremist ideologies, in particular the white nationalist rhetoric known to have spawned the recent racist massacre in Buffalo, New York, among other attacks on US soil.
