Hold the line, Tommy Tuberville. Scandal is on the phone.

This is an opinion column.

Timing is everything.

Strangely, nine months after the Trump Administration retook control of the Justice Department, we’re to believe they only now discovered Special Counsel Jack Smith had subpoenaed phone records of U.S. Senators.

Seems a little late, but Sen. Tommy Tuberville is no less upset.

“I would have always thought it would have been North Korea or China or Russia, not our own government,” Tuberville told Steve Bannon this week , and Joe Biden was tapping the phones through the FBI of senators in this country.”

Facts are important, so we should settle those first.

First, there’s no evidence that Biden had anything to do with anything, as Tuberville and his auto-pen decrying colleagues have been arguing for years now, and Tuberville himself repe