He only pulled it back because Jake Tapper called him on it. How do you react that way to a fellow lawmaker being threatened? How slimy is that? And someone just attempted to stab his GOP opponent, yelling crazy anti-GOP stuff.
Via Mediaite:
Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) faced backlash on Wednesday after tweeting a mocking response to a story about threats being made against Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) and staff at her office in D.C. over the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh and the allegation of sexual assault against him.
Swalwell was quote tweeting an article from The Hill detailing threats that were being made toward Collins and staff.
“My office has received some pretty ugly voicemails, threats, terrible things said to my staff,” Collins said in an interview with WVOM on Wednesday.
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“We’ve had some very abusive callers. … We’ve had some very vulgar calls and sort of harassing the staff,” Steve Abbot, Collins’s chief of staff, told a Maine TV station at the time.In response, Swalwell tweeted “Boo hoo hoo” to the female senator. He received a lot of backlash on Twitter (along with approval and retweets), and on Thursday morning even engaged some of the criticism. Here is his reply to CNN’s Jake Tapper.