Biden VP contender’s hypocrisy exposed: She loved Mt. Rushmore until Trump went there

When it comes to ambitious Democrats, nothing is written in stone.

(Article by Joe Saunders republished from WesternJournal.com)

Illinois Sen. Tammy Duckworth took Democratic hypocrisy to new heights over the Fourth of July weekend when she seemed open to the possibility of getting rid of Mount Rushmore, with its 60-foot-high images of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt.

But a 5-year-old Twitter post shows Duckworth hasn’t always felt that way. Funny how being a potential vice presidential pick can change a person’s mind.

During an interview with Duckworth on Sunday’s “State of the Union” on CNN, host Dana Bash asked the senator, according to a CNN transcript, if she supported tearing down statues of George Washington because the father of the country was a slave owner.

Such statues would presumably include the four-story likeness of Washington carved into the side of a mountain in South Dakota — and Duckworth’s answer made it clear she had that at least partially in mind. She framed the response as a reply to President Donald Trump’s speech at Mount Rushmore on Friday, during a visit that had been demonized by Democrats.

Sen. Tammy Duckworth: "The president at Mt. Rushmore was standing on ground that was stolen from Native Americans." pic.twitter.com/yUP4LqpLk9

— The Hill (@thehill) July 5, 2020

“I think we should listen to everybody. I think we should listen to the argument there,” she said.

“But remember that the president at Mount Rushmore was standing on ground that was stolen from Native Americans who had actually been given that land during a treaty.”

Those are pretty strong words about an American president and an American monument, and they fit the Democratic iconoclasm of the moment.

But Duckworth apparently felt considerably different about Mount Rushmore in 2015, when she posted a Fourth of July tweet just brimming with patriotic enthusiasm and a vow to visit the monument.

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