Saying the left-wing media and Democrats “have lost their mind” over an earlier video of him posted on X, Sen. Jim Banks, R-Ind., put out his own response Wednesday, saying he stands by his response to a fired federal bureaucrat who pursued him as he got on an elevator.
In the first video, Banks says the man taping him, a terminated HHS employee, probably deserved to be fired because he seemed “like a clown.”
Here is that exchange via X:
‼️YO. Senator Jim Banks just called a wrongfully terminated HHS worker a “clown” and said he “deserved” to lose his job. Seriously?!?
That is not how U.S. Senators should talk to civil servants. That is egregious.? pic.twitter.com/acuRNXh1l0
— Marissa D. Barrera (@mdb2) April 1, 2025
Subsequent to media outrage, Banks posted his own video, noting that the man questioning him earlier had a “left-wing, woke job in the federal government that should have never been a job to begin with.”
WATCH:
I won’t apologize for speaking the truth.
I 100% support President Trump and DOGE’s mission to cut woke spending and government waste. pic.twitter.com/adkNl0U1Oj
— Senator Jim Banks (@SenatorBanks) April 2, 2025
