Josh Hawley was an early defender of the Oklahoma City bombing...
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Robert Caruso
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Incredible read. Josh Hawley was an early defender of the Oklahoma City bombing, and characterized it as a legitimate war of ideas btwn USG & militias
‘Bamboozled.’ Hawley mentors stunned by conduct, but early warning signs were there
‘It’s just his ambition, I think. You know, it’s just simply the ambition,’ Hawley’s middle school principal said.
amp.kansascity.com
8:27 AM · Jan 24, 2021
https://amp.kansascity.com/news/local/article248663695.html
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to defend themselves? 
and I'm wondering if he isn't the one we've been warned about: the "next" one who is evil like Trump - only smarter.
"Brilliant minds............" 
the "CORE" of the RepubliCon party. 
As a means of expressing political viewpoints is now considered
AMBITIOUS?
No, just no.
He wrote this as most of the nation was teared up over the picture of the dead toddler carried out by a weeping fireman.
Republican Sen. Josh Hawley, who backed former President Donald Trump's voter-fraud claims following the 2020 election, defended militia members in a column after the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995, when he was 15 years old, The Kansas City Star reported. The Star reported that following the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, Hawley wrote a column for his hometown paper, The Lexington News, in which he warned against calling antigovernment militia members domestic terrorists. Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols, the men who carried out the bombing that killed 168 people, had ties to the Michigan Militia, an antigovernment group dating back to the 1990s.
"Many of the people populating these movements are not radical, right-wing, pro-assault weapons freaks as they were originally stereotyped," Hawley wrote of militia groups. "Dismissed by the media and treated with disdain by their elected leaders, these citizens come together and form groups that often draw more media fire as anti-government hate gatherings."
He added: "Feeling alienated from their government and the rest of society, they often become disenchanted and slip into talks of 'conspiracy theories' about how the federal government is out to get them."
Also in the column, Hawley said Mark Fuhrman, the Los Angeles police detective whose use of racial slurs became known during OJ Simpson's trial, was being unfairly depicted as a racist. "In this politically correct society, derogatory labels such as 'racist' are widely misused, and our ability to have open debate is eroding," he wrote.
to stand up in defense of people identified in our society as "evil" and claim that they "deserve" the ability to have "open debate."
I guess we should have a pretty good idea as to how this "Senator" is going to be voting as to the "innocence" or "guilt" of the 'INCITOR-IN-CHIEF'........
And perhaps every bit as disgusting is the others that will vote with him. 
