Mike Whatley, frequent basher of J6ers, now trying to make us all forget what he did.
Lifetime political hack Michael Whatley – the choice of the RNC and the GOPe for NC’s open US Senate seat — owes Susan and Thom Tillis a lot. They both worked hard to get him installed as state Republican Party chairman in 2019. Whatley returned the favor by regularly running interference for Tillis against angry party activists.
In the immediate aftermath of the January 6th episode on Capitol Hill, Thom Tillis threw a huge temper tantrum all over the drive-by media. In short, Thommy believed all these MAGA people needed to go to jail and get what they deserved.
Like a lovestruck puppy, Whatley followed suit. He made a cameo in a Phil Berger interview with a leftist web site. Then-state GOP chairman Whatley bragged on the record that he was “one of the first” state GOP official to condemn the protesters.
In 2021, as party chairman, Whatley was ready to write off all these people who we now know were victims of a weaponized federal judiciary:
The chairman of the North Carolina Republican Party on Tuesday refused to place blame for the Jan. 6 storming of the U.S. Capitol on former President Trump, stating that only those who participated in the riots bear responsibility.
“Look, I think that the rhetoric and actions that we saw on Jan. 6, the actions that we saw from the protesters that attacked the Capitol, are horrific and unjustified,” Michael Whatley said in an interview on CNN’s “New Day.”
“There is no rationale that could excuse the actions of those people that went into the Capitol that caused the violence, and the deaths and injuries that we’ve seen from that are truly horrific,” he added. “But I think the fault lies with those people who attacked the Capitol.”
Pressed by CNN’s John Berman on whether Trump deserved any blame for the events on Jan. 6, Whatley demurred, reiterating that the rioters themselves were the ones at fault.
“I think the responsibility lies with those people who broke the law, who attacked the Capitol, who attacked those police officers and caused the violence and mayhem, which is completely reprehensible and unjustifiable,” he said. [...]
Whatley sure does sound like a Biden Democrat, doesn’t he?
*Let’s not wait for a real investigation — which, by the way, still hasn’t happened — before jumping to all kinds of conclusions.*
For the record, no cops got killed. Five civilians did. And Donald Trump — supposedly Whatley’s dear friend and backer — pardoned all of the protesters.
Fast forward to today. Whatley is on TV expressing his *outrage* over the behavior of the Biden Justice Department in connection with January 6, 2021. An absolute 180 from what he had been saying.
(We are slowly learning more of the truth about J6. Whatley is now a candidate, and he has to sell himself to the, um, *rubes* in the NCGOP voting base.)
Meanwhile, Whatley’s primary opponent – Don Brown – fought to defend several J6 defendants from the overzealous and weaponized Biden Justice Department and even helped them win pardons from Trump.
Whatley, meanwhile, verbally gave aid and comfort to CNN and other Trump foes. Yet, Whatley has somehow won a White House endorsement.
It’s hard to understand. Trump endorsed Tillis in 2020. Tillis has shown his gratitude by screwing Trump non-stop ever since. We’re staring at Tillis 2.0 here in 2025-26. Will this be deja vu all over again for Trump, North Carolina AND America?
