 [American Thinker] Sen. Tom Cotton took a lot of opprobrium for bringing up, during this year's stimulus debates in Congress, that some really vile people would get checks, given the poor construction of the Democrat-led law.
"If you see something, say something."
Why a killer like Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the last living 2013 Boston Bomber, would somehow need a federal stimulus check, courtesy of the U.S. taxpayer, went unanswered. What the heck would he spend it on, other than to give it to his terrorist buddies? All sorts of jailbirds would get them — Chapo Guzmán? The shoe bomber? The underwear bomber? Susan Smith? Scott Peterson? The subhumans who shot up the synagogues in Philadelphia and Poway, Calif.? The freak who machine-gunned the theater in Aurora, Colorado? Parkland killer Nikolas Cruz? The demonic animal who killed the kindly black churchgoers who welcomed him into their Bible study in South Carolina? The dirtbags who shot Reps. Gabby Gifford and Steve Scalise? Ghislaine Maxwell and, while he was alive, Jeffrey Epstein? Based on the logic of the bill, they all could get their stimulus checks, too.
It was grotesque. Nobody wants the scum of the earth voting while they are incarcerated. But somehow, Democrats wanted to hand them money.
But when Cotton brought the matter up as a legitimate point of concern in Congress, which is actually his job, he was raked through the press as a fear-monger, and worse still, called a liar by someone who should have known better: the chief fact-checker for the Washington Post, Glenn Kessler.
Turns out Cotton was right, though, and now prosecutors are trying to claw back that stimulus check to compensate Tsarnaev's victims. According to Newsweek: 
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