Tuberville Lied About Pre-Riot Meeting At Trump Hotel

The Alabama Political Reporter reports:

Alabama Republican Senator Tommy Tuberville through a spokeswoman Tuesday denied meeting with the then-director of the Republican Attorneys General Association and others inside Trump’s private residence at the Trump International Hotel on Jan. 5 — on the eve of the deadly U.S. Capitol attack.

But a photo posted to social media appears to show Tuberville in the hotel’s lobby that day, and a company CEO in a separate post describes meeting with Tuberville and others at the hotel that day and discussing “illegal votes.”

Charles W. Herbster, who was then the national chairman of the Agriculture and Rural Advisory Committee in Trump’s administration, in a Facebook post at 8:33 p.m. on Jan. 5 said that he was standing “in the private residence of the President at Trump International with the following patriots who are joining me in a battle for justice and truth.”

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Bombshell via @ALReporter. Tommy Tuberville, Adam Piper, Donald Trump Jr., Eric Trump, Michael Flynn, Peter Navarro, Corey Lewandowski, Rudy Giuliani and David Bossie met the night before the Capitol Insurrection at Trump’s hotel. Tuberville denies it. https://t.co/OWUzkBCoeJ

— Mark Elliott (@markmobility) January 27, 2021