Ohio Republican Senator J.D. Vance on Tuesday slammed President Joe Biden’s nominee for the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) over racially charged Tweets.
Gigi Sohn sat before Congress for hearings Tuesday and was questioned by various senators, including Republican Texas Sen. Ted Cruz. Biden renominated Sohn for the position after her initial nomination failed amid disputes over previous left-wing activism.
Vance took aim at Tweets previously shared by Sohn, providing her with a hypothetical where he replaced the names and races of those mentioned in the Tweets.
“‘President Obama is a raggedy black supremacist president and his cowardly enablers would rather kill everybody than stop killing white people.’ Do you think a person who said that should be appointed or confirmed to the FCC?”
“I didn’t quite get that, could you just re-read that, would you mind,” Sohn said.
Vance then re-read the Tweet and asked Sohn the same question.
Wrong person for the job.