Retiring GOP senator tight-lipped on whether he stiffed his commitment to veterans: report

Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) is leaving office after just one term, pursuing the governor's mansion instead. But questions swirl about whether he followed through on one of his core 2020 campaign promises — and he doesn't want to talk about it.

According to AL.com, Tuberville vowed to "donate every dime" he makes in Washington to veterans' causes.

However, his office "declined to answer questions ... this week about whether he has donated his $174,000 Senate salary to charity."

All of this comes as Tuberville, a hard-right ally of President Donald Trump who has repeatedly landed in controversy for his racist remarks, has come under scrutiny for allegations that he has secretly been living in Florida while seeking to represent Alabama.

In the process of trying to disprove those allegations, Tuberville's campaign accidentally leaked sensitive information about himself, then threatened to sue the paper reporting on it even though that paper redacted the identifying information.

Further complicating the issue for Tuberville, he admitted in a recorded meeting of the Shoals Republican Club in 2019 when he was first running for Senate that he is not an "everyday resident of Alabama" and is a "carpetbagger," which some legal experts speculate could hurt him badly in legal challenges to his gubernatorial candidacy.