‘Suck It Up’ Cori Bush Defends Having Private Security Due to ‘Attempts’ on Her Life But Still Wants to Defund the Police

In a rant that is sure to make mainstream Democrats nervous, U.S. House Rep Cori Bush (D-MO) defended having private security due to “attempts” on her life, but still wants to defund the police.

In a clip tweeted by NRCC communications director Mike Berg, Bush tells CBS viewers, “I’m going to make sure I have security because, I know, I have had attempts on my life and I have too much work to do.”

“There are too many people that need help right now for me to allow that, so if I end up spending $200,000, if I spend 10 more dollars on it, you know what, I get to be here to do the work,” Bush continued.

Bush then demanded of her critics, “So suck it up and defunding the police has to happen. We need to defund the police and put that money into social safety nets.”

Arkansas Governor Republican candidate Sarah Sanders was one of many shocked viewers who shared the video and asked, “So Democrat @RepCori’s life is the only one important enough to be protected?”

“The radical left’s ‘security for me, but not for you’ agenda is elitist hypocrisy and arrogance at its very worst,” Sanders insisted.

So Democrat @RepCori’s life is the only one important enough to be protected? The radical left’s “security for me, but not for you” agenda is elitist hypocrisy and arrogance at its very worst. pic.twitter.com/3a4Z2qGunQ

— Sarah Huckabee Sanders (@SarahHuckabee) August 5, 2021

U.S. Sen Tom Cotton (R-AR) shared a picture of Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) hugging Bush in a quote tweet of the video.

“@SenSchumer to defund-the-police activist @CoriBush: ‘You guys are fabulous.’ This is the heart of the Democratic party,” Cotton explained.

.@SenSchumer to defund-the-police activist @CoriBush:

"You guys are fabulous."

This is the heart of the Democratic party. https://t.co/lyECX47Bcm pic.twitter.com/r3bmKqBYIy

— Tom Cotton (@TomCottonAR) August 5, 2021

Recently, Democrats like U.S. House Rep Adam Schiff (D-CA) have been praising Bush for her protest on the steps of the U.S. Capitol which eventually led to President Joe Biden reinstating the eviction moratorium.

Schiff mentioned Bush in tweet on Tuesday where he claimed, “This eviction moratorium will keep millions of people in their homes. And it wouldn’t be possible without leadership from @RepMaxineWaters, @RepCori, and so many others. Now, we must seek permanent solutions to help our unhoused neighbors. Because we can, and must, do better.”

This eviction moratorium will keep millions of people in their homes.

And it wouldn’t be possible without leadership from @RepMaxineWaters, @RepCori, and so many others.

Now, we must seek permanent solutions to help our unhoused neighbors.

Because we can, and must, do better. https://t.co/XryAovqczt

— Adam Schiff (@RepAdamSchiff) August 3, 2021

Yesterday, we reported:

Mark and Patricia McCloskey were among 12 individuals pardoned yesterday by Missouri Republican Gov. Mike Parson, which they hope will enable them to have the firearms used in an incident where they defended themselves from a BLM mob returned.

Parson had promised after the incident to pardon them if they were convicted on any of the charges.

U.S. House Rep Cori Bush (D-MO), who is no longer camping out on the steps of the U.S. Capitol after President Biden announced the reinstatement of the eviction moratorium, was furious at the news.

On CNN, Bush called the pardon “Unbelievable” and that “There are pardons that we have been asking for, pardons that actually should happen in Missouri, and that was not one.”

Obviously, a Republican governor should not care what pardons a so-called progressive representative wants, but nevertheless, Bush didn’t stop there.

“Mark McCloskey is an absolute liar,” Bush claimed, and added, “He has spat on my name, and because of that, his day will come.”