Tillis Won’t Support Trump’s AG Pick if They Water Down January 6
It seems the nominee must consider the riot one of the worst days in American history.
Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) plans to become a headache for President Donald Trump…again.
Trump has to find a replacement for Pam Bondi, who was booted from the post last week.
Tillis announced he would not support any Trump nominee over the January 6 Capitol Hill riot (emphasis mine):
Tillis said, “I’m not really sure what the basis for it was will be saying, potentially another nominee come in before the Judiciary Committee. A little bit too early for me to understand the rationale behind it. I had a good relationship with General Bondi. I hear some of the reports may be a frustration from the president on pursuing, certain cases. You know my position. I have a problem with some of the cases they have pursued, like what I think is the bogus case against Chair Powell. So if it’s founded in that sort of frustration, I’d have to respectfully disagree with the president. If there are other facts related to other matters that I haven’t seen reported, I’ll reserve judgment.”
He added, “For me, the threshold for somebody following Pam Bondi ends the moment I hear they said one thing that excused the events of January 6. I’ve been very clear on that. So I hope whoever they have in mind to follow General Bondi was very clear-eyed on my position on January 6. That’s why I didn’t support two other nominees who were coming through Judiciary Committee, and I won’t support any nominee who thought that any element of January 6 was excusable.”
Thom Tillis says he'll vote no on Trump's next AG nominee if they don't agree that January 6 was worse than Pearl Harbor, 9/11, and the Trail of Tears in every single facet. pic.twitter.com/U3pt85xX42
— Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) April 4, 2026
Tillis is not running again this year.
The outgoing senator already threatened to block any Trump Federal Reserve nominee due to an investigation into current Chairman Jerome Powell over a $2.5 billion renovation of the Federal Reserve headquarters.
Tillis initially opposed Pete Hegseth for Department of War secretary before caving after the Senate Armed Services Committee advanced his nomination.
In May 2025, Tillis also caused problems for Ed Martin after Trump nominated him for D.C. U.S. Attorney due to, you guessed it, his comments brushing aside the Capitol Hill riots.
Trump withdrew Martin’s nomination a few days after Tillis’s declaration.
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what a pos
Once a rino, always a rino. The Turtle controls him. Enough said.
A Chamber of Commerce Republican.
By ‘water down’ he means ‘say what really happened’.
I guess letting a ‘cop’ off the hook after he shoots a women in the head and kills her for trespassing isn’t considered ‘watering down’
He used to pretend to have principles. Now he’s just being vindictive.
McCain, McConnell . . . There is a long line
Yes, he would t take anything under 50,000 $
Now it’s 2,000,000 $
the capitol hill protests were in direct response to the lefts continued show of resistance to a free and fair election
the fact that some in the crowd were leftist agitators is noteworthy
and as important some pro maga in the crowd who were overzealous in their quests for freedom went overboard dont even come close in comparison to the reactions of not only the faux hysteria from the left crowd but also the tacit approval given by the gop of the lefts hysteria
most noticeable was the gops willingness to have allowed the murder and murderer of one Ashli Babbit to go un investigated ,,un discoverable and a huge coverup of the leo guilty of her murder
fearing any reprisals of the “campus” police no doubt
but while the left continued their lies that unarmed blks were being murdered by leo
Babbit was in fact murdered by not only a leo but a blk leo and that was left as just another
in the wrong place at the wrong time declaration given/made by people hostile to a civil society
The ones attacking
… the police before Trump’s people got there were antifa and the FBI. joint false flag operation. saw an antifa guy bragging about it same day.
I have written Tillis several times. He always always always responds with Democratic talking points.
next time you write him
address him as either nancy pelosi or hakeem
The guy needs instruction in civics and government. He clearly has zero comprehension of what actually happened on January 6th.
its too bad trump isnt 30 years younger so he can be the continued voice of maga when not potus
yes,,he should be a scotus after his potus
WWFD?
(What would Fetterman do)
If the swamp isn’t executed for treason and other crimes against humanity in Trumps term, the republic falls
Tillis can not be allowed to single-handedly determine the fate of the republic
mccain basically did for obamacare b/c he hated trump
McStain was never the same after they gang raped him like a gimp for all those years in the Hanoi Hilton.
The system continues to protect itself.
the nominee must consider the riot one of the worst days in American history.
It certainly showed the democrats to be projecting assholes with no reservations about framing those who would stop their voter fraud, theft of taxpayer money, and corruption of all 3 branches of government.
Unbelievable, these myopic snakes.
Obama, Clinton, Brennan et al. brazenly subverted and sabotaged a presidential candidate and later president. The Dhimmi-crat Party apparatchiks, from party elders and standard-bearers, all the way down the line, supported the Dhimmi-crats’ 2020 insurrection, riots, looting, arson, murders and desecration of synagogues, that lasted nearly the entire year.
But, the January 6th FBI false flag operation is what Tillis and his vile ilk are focusing on?
He has a severe case of TDS and nothing will change his mind. Like most Dems, nothing Trump does is good and must be opposed.
So interim AG until Jan 1, 2027when Tillis is thankfully no longer in office.
Jan 6th was mild in comparison to what we saw from the left in the Summer of Love, 2020. Instead of burning down a gas station and looting a Target store, citizen protesters actually brought their grievances to the seat of government, and for that, they must be punished harshly. Spending months burning down cities and terrorizing citizens? No problem. Marching on the Capitol, entering the building and then leaving within a few hours? Beyond The Pale. “Protest” is “saving democracy” as long as you’re not actually taking your “protest” to the government.
That’s not the worst that came out of J6. The media (expected) and the Democrats (also expected) built this towering fever dream of giant conspiracy in which the departing President organized every single element of the day in an attempt to overthrow the government by invalidating the election and remaining in office. Then the supposedly non-political FBI and DOJ threw their weight behind the big lie, applying an inappropriate Enron-era felony charge to everybody they could bully into a guilty plea, tracking down and imprisoning people who both committed damage to property and the ones who wandered in after the rioting was over with no effort to differentiate. They were all guilty of opposing the Narrative, so they were shoveled into court where *every* DC judge denied bail, convicted them on wildly overstated charges, and refused change of venue. The sheer rapidity where the trust of law enforcement was burned away for midnight arrests and kangaroo courts took us all by surprise, and the Dems thought they could keep that whip hand over us forever, imprison political enemies, bankrupt them, and kill them in public.
Which could not have achieved that goal even if it worked perfectly! If the election were somehow to have been invalidated, the presidency and vice presidency would have fallen vacant at noon on the 20th, and Pelosi would have become acting president until a new president could somehow be elected.
But it’s not clear that that is their fantasy; they’ve never clearly stated what it was. I think the general impression they give is that Trump’s plot was to force Congress to proceed with the count, discarding the votes of some electors and substituting fraudulent votes from other electors. Or something. They’ve been very vague about exactly what they were alleging. Much like the “Russian collusion” hoax, where they never did specify exactly what they were alleging.
The sudden and coordinated appearance of the inaptly applied word “insurrection” to the riots actually removed gravitas (another magically appearing word designed against Bush) from their accusations.
They still can’t drop it, despite revelations about Pelosi’s involvement, Bowser’s complicity and the Sergeant at Arms role, all revealed by Pelosi’s daughter’s videos..
Now do the 2020 George Floyd ‘summer of love’ riots which roiled through many cities nationwide, murdered dozens, and racked up nearly $2 billion in damages.
Thom. Thom? Thom??
J6 has not been MY hill to fight on, but it’s a hill to fight on. The weaponization of the government against an actual peaceful protest while violent protests go unchecked DAILY if not HOURLY must end.
Not familiar with Tillis but the voters of NC are becoming very familiar to me so I am surprised he even bothers to call himself a Republican.
Mosly peaceful. There was a significant amount of violence, though compared to your average BLM riot it was minor.
And when you factor in the pantifa infiltrators and who knows what role the FBI played, it was really just a lot of shouting.
Not surprising. Tillis is just another example of the “Vote GOP No Matter What” fever that grips a lot of conservative voters. When you vote for garbage politicians you end up with … well, garbage politicians.
It’s not out of the question that Tillis ends up supporting the Communist Party candidate to replace him.
The Democrat is almost always far worse.
In the short term yes. In the longer term we might benefit from a few strategic rejections of rinos in the general election where we can do it without automatically costing control of the Senate or HoR.
The establishment rino incumbents are far too comfortable in rejecting what the base voters want. Purposefully and publicly rejecting one or two rinos of a Red State/CD in a general election to clear the decks for a more consistent/based alternative in the next election would at minimum rattle the DC cages and leave establishment wondering if they were next should they abandon base voter policy preferences. It would also make it more likely for a candidate better aligned with the CD/State to get elected next time.
The problem there is, if you then lose your majority, either by miscalculation or subsequent expulsions or deaths, you end up with Virginia – and they will destroy it so fast you will never get it back.
Well speaking of hypothetical deaths in office….that’s one way vacancies in office could be created to allow the ship to be righted under new management and a second or even additional rounds could be applied until the preferred candidates were elected. The more important part are the caveats I made ‘strategic’ and ‘without automatically costing control…’. Seems kinda obvious that we gotta limit it to one or two Senators each cycle. Done correctly over 3-5 election cycles and the sorts like Cornyn from Red States who ‘grow’ in office get removed or get with the program.
We don’t call Tillis “The Weasel Whisperer” for nothing.
Guess he wanted to open a Gulag as well with Jan6 political prisoners.
The ONLY good thing about Tillis is that he has announced he will not run for re-election. So, he’s gone as soon as the next Congress is sworn in.
The current governor of his State is a Democrat, so we can’t even hope that Tillis would decide to end his misery here on earth by taking advantage of the fact that 14 States (and Canada) have legalized euthanasia and are more than happy to provide it to anyone on the slightest pretext.
(Trying to figure out why his governor being a Democrat makes that less likely…)
Do-little-do-nothing-do-less Tillis. Sit down and STFU.
He can stand if he wants to but he should STFU.