Featured News

Mark Meadows: I Wouldn’t Compare Coronavirus Lockdowns to Japanese Internment

Mark Meadows responded to William Barr’s criticism of Coronavirus lockdowns on Thursday by hinting that hyperbolic comparisons are inappropriate.

The White House chief of staff spoke to a gaggle of reporters and was asked about the Attorney General’s remarks. Barr has caused some outrage by contrasting COVID-19 measures with slavery.

Other than slavery, which was a different kind of restraint, this is the greatest intrusion on civil liberties in American history,” Barr had said.

Meadows gave a long answer that appeared broadly supportive of Barr’s position.

To get more stories like this, subscribe to our newsletter The Daily.

Well when we look at lockdowns, when you look at individual liberties and who we are as a nation, a nation of freedom,” he said.

“Many times when we give up those civil liberties, and I’m one that believe in those simple liberties are inherent, they’re enshrined by our constitution, and we need to protect those because when bad things happen, we sometimes, not always, but sometimes start to take away the liberties that are enshrined in our and are part of our constitutional rights, and make us different as Americans than many other countries.”

A reporter asked Meadows if lockdowns were “the greatest intrusion” in history and pointed to the infamous internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II.

Yeah I’m not familiar with the quote,” Meadows said.

Obviously we’ve got a number of times where civil liberties have been trampled on, and certainly when we start to look down at forced confinement, those are tough.”

“To compare them with the Japanese internment camp, I don’t know that he made that analogy, I certainly wouldn’t,” he said.

Follow Darragh Roche on Twitter

Recent Posts

Justice for Crystal Mason as Conviction for Illegal Voting is Finally Reversed

There is finally justice for Crystal Mason as her conviction for illegal voting was reversed,…

49 mins ago

Biden Confirms That Dark Brandon Is Real At Fundraiser With Clinton And Obama

President Biden confirmed that Dark Brandon is real during a fundraiser with former presidents Bill…

10 hours ago

1/6 Cop Killer Trump Shows Up At Police Officer Wake To Tout “Law And Order”

lice officer to talk about how the killing of police officers must stop, after he…

16 hours ago

James Comer Basically Begs Joe Biden To Revive Impeachment By Testifying

In what should be viewed as a last gasp move to revive his impeachment investigation,…

17 hours ago

Voter Fraud Found As Georgia GOP Vice Chair Illegally Voted 9 Times

A Georgia judge has ruled that vice chair of the state Republican Party voted illegally…

19 hours ago

Senator Warns It’s Critical to Declassify Info on ‘Grave Counterintelligence Threat’ Paul Manafort

After news that former Trump campaign chairman and convicted felon Paul Manafort might rejoin Donald…

23 hours ago