The Senate will vote this week on Federal Trade Commission (FTC) nominee Alvaro Bedoya, who has condemned Breitbart News, called Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) a “swamp dweller,” and called for an advertiser boycott of Fox News Channel.
Free Press denounced Blackburn as a “swamp dweller” in 2017, adding that the Tennessee conservative mouthed the “most uninformed talking points.”
In a confirmation hearing, Bedoya claimed that he knew little about critical race theory , despite sitting on the board of an organization that actively promotes CRT.Sen.
supremacist.” He even liked a tweet disparaging Baron Trump. This type of aggressive rhetoric and behavior is inconsistent with the type of temperament required for a commissioner of the FTC.
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