Tom Cot­ton stands by com­ment mov­ing ‘pro-Hamas lunatics’ off the high­way

Sen. Tom Cot­ton (R‑AR) reit­er­at­ed a com­ment he made on social media about pro­test­ers in sup­port of the Hamas ter­ror­ist group, who have been block­ing var­i­ous high­ways over the past few days.
Cot­ton had encour­aged peo­ple on social media to “take mat­ters into your own hands” to remove pro-Pales­tine pro­test­ers block­ing high­way traf­fic. The past cou­ple of days have seen sev­er­al demon­stra­tions on high­ways, with one pre­vent­ing trav­el­ers from dri­ving to the O’Hare Inter­na­tion­al Air­port in Chica­go, Illi­nois.

I encour­age peo­ple who get stuck behind the pro-Hamas mobs block­ing traf­fic: take mat­ters into your own hands to get them out of the way.It’s time to put an end to this non­sense.
— Tom Cot­ton (@TomCottonAR) April 16, 2024

The Arkansas sen­a­tor not­ed how these types of protests are harm­ing peo­ple who are sim­ply going about their day and could poten­tial­ly be harm­ing peo­ple try­ing to get a fam­i­ly mem­ber to a hos­pi­tal for treat­ment.
“All these pro-Hamas lunatics can, I don’t know, get a per­mit and protest in a park and wave arou …