Someone who does need silencing.
From the Washington Post:
Sen. Hawley is fundraising off Trump’s Senate impeachment trial.
Sen. Josh Hawley, the Missouri Republican who raised a fist outside the Capitol in a photo that was taken before a pro-Trump mob stormed the building Jan. 6, sent an email to supporters Monday in which he sought to fundraise off Trump’s coming Senate impeachment trial.
“Even chasing President Trump out of office isn’t enough for them,” Hawley said of Democrats in the email. “They have to impeach him AGAIN. They are going after Trump, and they are still coming after me — both of us for the same sin: Instead of protecting the elites, I stood up for the people and now I am being threatened every day by Democrats calling for me to be expelled from the Senate, and Joe Biden has echoed that I should be ‘flat beaten.’ ”
Hawley has mentioned Biden’s “flat beaten” remark, out of context, in a number of fundraising emails. In remarks to reporters in Delaware two days after the attack on the Capitol, Biden rebuffed calls from some Democrats to remove Hawley and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) from office over their efforts to overturn the election, saying that, instead, “I think they should be just flat beaten the next time they run.”
In the fundraising email, Hawley also defended his objections to Biden’s victory in several states.
“I stood up and objected, and now I am paying the price,” the senator said. “Antifa has targeted my home, my name has been dragged through the mud, and the D.C. Bar Association is entertaining calls for me to be disbarred from the practice of law. My crime: refusing to do as I am told and allow the 2020 election to be certified with no question. They are FURIOUS with me for standing up, but I won’t back down and I hope you won’t either.”