Tills on possibility Trump doxes him: ‘I got his number too’
After President Trump leaked a Republican lawmaker’s phone number on social media this past weekend, Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) warned he would not withstand the same treatment.
“With all due respect, I got his number too,” Tillis told the hosts of ABC’s “The View” on Monday.
The Republican, who has repeatedly clashed with the president during the second Trump administration, was on the show to promote his new book, “How to Lose Friends and Antagonize Presidents.”
Tillis’s comment followed Trump’s repeated criticism of Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) on Saturday over the Republican senator’s opposition to a bill that would make daylight saving time the permanent standard time.
In one Truth Social post, the president posted Cotton’s phone number and told his supporters to call the lawmaker and urge him to change his stance on this legislation.
Tillis, who is retiring at the end of his current term, said on Monday he was “not at all” concerned about the potential that the president would retaliate against him for this book, which includes private text exchanges between himself and Trump.
“We could dedicate a whole show, to me, the bookends of overreach and vindictive prosecutions, et cetera,” the senator said. “For people to forget about their party’s overreach puts that party in peril in the next election. That’s my whole point.”
In the book, the GOP senator reflected on his vote to confirm Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, calling it the “biggest regret” of his career in Congress.
“The View” host Alyssa Farah Griffin pressed Tillis on the new House resolution to impeach Hegseth, which was introduced by ousted GOP Rep. Thomas Massie (Ky.).
The North Carolina senator said he did not know whether this impeachment effort would be successful but added, “I hope he gets fired.”
The Republican also praised Trump as a “great political force” during his Monday appearance on the talk show, pointing to his track record of “pulling together coalitions.”
However, Tillis noted that the president has lost some support from key voting blocs, such as among Hispanic voters.
A survey from NBC News and Telemundo found that 59 percent of Hispanic voters preferred Democrats to win the November elections over the 35 percent who favored Republicans. This voting demographic was key to Trump’s win in the 2024 presidential election.
“The support among Hispanics has almost evaporated,” Tillis said. “So the very coalitions that the president … was able to pull together are falling apart.”
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