EXCLUSIVE: Sen. Josh Hawley Responds to Jan. 6 Criticism: ‘I Don’t Regret Anything I Did That Day’

Sen Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) said he does not regret anything he did on Jan. 6, 2021, in response to criticism he has received from politicians and media on the political left for persisting with his plans to challenge the electoral votes during the Senate session on that day.

“What I did was stand up for election integrity, and also for the voters of my state,” Hawley said on Epoch TV’s “Crossroads” program on July 22. “I think leading a debate on the floor of the Senate about election integrity is what the Senate is there for.”

In 2016, the Hillary Clinton presidential campaign paid an operative with ties to Russia to lie to the FBI and to obtain a warrant from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to surveil the Trump campaign and his associates, Hawley explained, noting that the Democrats “have pioneered this” and that Clinton, “to this day, says that the election was stolen from her.”

But when people inquire and press for answers regarding the 2020 election, Hawley noted, they are labeled “a threat to democracy.”

“People’s confidence in our elections is absolutely vital to a free and open, well-functioning democracy,” Hawley said, adding that he objected to Pennsylvania’s Electoral College results in January 2021 because Pennsylvania changed the rules of the election during the election. “That’s wrong, and I hope it never happens again.”

Hawley said that he does not regret that he filed his objection to the certification of electoral votes and participated in the debate on election integrity when he returned to Capitol on Jan. 6 after its evacuation.

“Most of the people, the overwhelming majority of folks who went to Washington, D.C., and even [those] who were near the Capitol grounds, were there peacefully, Hawley said. “I don’t regret at all saluting the folks who were

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