Chuck Schumer apparently hopes to mend his fences on the left by attacking the right.
The Senate minority leader — a man who engineered a government closure just to pacify the radicals in his party’s base — turned his fire on a fellow member of the Senate on Monday, accusing him of “Islamophobia” for a comment about a recent terror attack.
But Sen. Tommy Tuberville, an Alabama Republican, wasn’t backing away.
Tuberville, one of the Senate’s most outspoken members when it comes to Islamic terrorism, initially was commenting on reports that the still-at-large gunman in the Brown shooting had “yelled something incomprehensible,” as The New York Times put it, before shooting up a lecture hall on the Providence, Rhode Island, campus.
“We all know what he yelled,” Tuberville wrote in a post on the social media platform X.