Chambana Sun

Scott Tarpley, former Champaign County Board spokesman, blasted Sen. Tammy Duckworth for allowing her opinion of President Donald Trump hamper public safety concerns after he offered to help cities gain control of looters and rioters with military troops.

In a Twitter video, Sen. Duckworth said of Pres. Trump, “I am sickened to the core by this man.”

Tarpley responded, “It's remarkable to see her hatred for Donald Trump override her common sense about public safety.”

Sen. Duckworth’s June 3, 2020 tweet stated, “Our military is one of the most diverse institutions in this country. And for Donald Trump to pervert it, politicize it and use it against fellow Americans exercising their constitutional rights sickens me to the core.”

She went on to label Pres. Trump, “a draft-dodging wannabe tin-pot dictator.”

“One hundred percent of the country is behind George Floyd,” Tarpley told the Chambana Sun. “I don't know a single person who thinks those police officers shouldn't be prosecuted and if what they did wasn't illegal, then the law needs to change. We need to crack down on rioting and looting because that's un-American too and to oppose assistance for cutting down on rioting and looting because you hate Donald Trump, says a whole lot more about yourself than about anything else.” 

Chicago erupted into “No Justice No Peace” protests led by Black Lives Matter (BLM), an international human rights organization that demanded the arrest of Derek Chauvin, the police officer who pinned an unarmed Floyd to the ground with his knee, strangling him to death on May 25, 2020. 

Chauvin was finally arrested and charged with murder on the third day of rallies, some of which have turned into episodes of looting that Pres. Trump and other government officials believe have been instigated by Antifa, which is a far-left, antifascist network of activists who principally believe that more aggressive resistance to the Nazi Party in pre-World War II Germany would have kept Adolph Hitler from coming into power, according to the Anti-Defamation League.

On June 1, it was reported in Business Insider that the extreme right-wing group, Identity Evropa, called for violence and looting in white neighborhoods on Twitter under the guise of being Antifa or BLM members.

“Critics say that it’s not the role of the military to intervene but I thought the whole purpose of the military is to protect the United States people,” Tarpley said in an interview.

Sen. Duckworth is a Democratic member of the U.S. Senate, representing the 8th Congressional District of Illinois who was first elected to the Senate in 2016, according to BallotPedia, and is an Iraq War veteran, having served in the reserve forces and retiring at the rank of Lieutenant Colonel.