Massive incompetence. And this man wants to be a lifetime appointee as a federal judge, and we're going to vote for him on Police Week. Phil Williams, nominated to be U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Alabama, called the prosecutions of January 6 rioters 'the Salem Witch Trials on a national scale.' Their videos, there's no question about what was happening here. They were being police officers within an inch of losing their lives, were trying to defend me and all the senators who were here. (02:02–02:16)
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Asserts that Phil Williams compared January 6 prosecutions to the Salem Witch Trials.
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