Disney waging ‘an attack on American democracy’: Rep. Jim Banks

Rep. Jim Banks, R-Ind., referred to as Disney’s opposition to Florida’s parental rights legislation “an assault on American democracy” Thursday on “The Ingraham Angle.”

“You’ve got these woke executives at locations like Disney, who by the best way, as I stated earlier, they’ve by no means protested something … about China,” he informed host Laura Ingraham. “They utterly flip a blind eye and help Uyghur Muslim genocide in China, however they wish to assault Gov. DeSantis and the nice individuals of Florida for passing a legislation that the overwhelming majority of individuals in that state elected their representatives to go to start with.”

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It is an “assault on American democracy” for which the corporate shouldn’t be rewarded, he stated. 

Banks wrote Disney a letter Thursday he stated has been “in all probability a very long time coming.”

Within the letter, he informed the corporate he is not going to vote for its copyright legal guidelines after they expire. 

Banks is not going to “vote for particular legal guidelines that assist Disney when Disney is attacking American values regularly,” he informed Ingraham.

The corporate doesn’t deserve particular American authorized protections when it assaults American legal guidelines arising from the democratic course of, he stated.

“This invoice is … such widespread sense and it is so wanted not simply in Florida, however … each state within the nation, Laura. You take a look at what this invoice does — by the best way, I’ve an 8-year-old daughter. I do not need her indoctrinated about sexual habits at college or at Disney World.”

Banks requested why Democrats are “so hell-bent” on opposing legal guidelines just like the parental rights legislation that “the overwhelming majority” of Individuals help.