Show-Me State Times

U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) has issued a statement after President-elect Joe Biden compared him to a Nazi.

"President-elect Biden has just compared me and another Republican Senator to Nazis,” Hawley wrote in his statement. “You read that correctly. Think about that for a moment. Let it sink in. Because I raised questions in the format prescribed by the laws of the United States about the way elections were conducted in the state of Pennsylvania, just as Democrats did about other states in 2001, 2005, and 2017, he is calling me a Nazi.”

He further stated that Biden’s behavior was “undignified, immature, and intemperate” from a president-elect. “It is utterly shameful. He should act like a dignified adult and retract these sick comments. And every Democrat member of congress should be asked to disavow these disgusting comments."

Hawley’s statement was in response to Biden’s answer to a reporter during a media conference asking him whether Hawley and Sen. Ted Cruz should step down.

"I think they should be just flat beaten the next time they run," Biden said. "I think the American public has a real good clear look at who they are. They're part of the big lie, the big lie."

“Goebbels and the great lie. You keep repeating the lie, repeating the lie,” Biden referring to the Nazi leader’s belief that if a lie is repeated enough, people will believe it.

Hawley was one of the six senators who voted in opposition to Biden's certification of victory.