Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) went after California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) on Friday afternoon after he shared a photo of her in a social media post griping about Fox News.<\/p>\n
But if she expected her comments to, as the kids say, \u201cwin the internet,\u201d she was sorely mistaken.<\/p>\n
Fox News ignited the feud with a story about how Graham Farrar, the co-founder of Glass House Farms, a California cannabis farm raided by federal immigration authorities, had previously donated $10,000 to Newsom.<\/p>\n
Newsom decided to respond to Fox\u2019s hand-wringing about Democrats, immigrants and cannabis with receipts \u2014 tweeting a photo of Farrar\u2019s co-founder, Kyle Kazan, posing with none other than the right-wing Mace.<\/p>\n
\u201cSure is rich for Fox News and the Trump Admin to point to campaign donations to Democrats, when in fact, the CEO is a Trump supporter who donated to my recall and has given to more Republicans,\u201d Newsom posted.<\/p>\n
A Los Angeles Times report about the raid noted that Kazan is an ex-cop and supporter of Donald Trump, something Newsom also noted.<\/p>\n
Newsom decided to respond to Fox\u2019s hand-wringing about Democrats, immigrants and cannabis with receipts \u2014 tweeting a photo of Farrar\u2019s co-founder, Kyle Kazan, posing with none other than the right-wing Mace.<\/p>\n
\u201cSure is rich for Fox News and the Trump Admin to point to campaign donations to Democrats, when in fact, the CEO is a Trump supporter who donated to my recall and has given to more Republicans,\u201d Newsom posted.<\/p>\n
A Los Angeles Times report about the raid noted that Kazan is an ex-cop and supporter of Donald Trump, something Newsom also noted.<\/p>\n
Mace, who has in fact supported cannabis legalization in the past, clearly wasn\u2019t pleased that the Democratic governor had called her out.<\/p>\n
So she responded to Newsom with her own post, which ignored the points of Newsom\u2019s tweet but contained some red meat for her base \u2015 including mentions of George Soros and (checks notes) \u201cm*rderers, r*pists, and p*dophiles\u201d she claimed were \u201cwalking free\u201d under Newsom\u2019s watch.<\/p>\n
Newsom hadn\u2019t responded to Mace\u2019s debate offer as of Friday afternoon. Neither Mace\u2019s nor Newsom\u2019s offices immediately responded to HuffPost\u2019s request for comment.<\/p>\n
However, Mace\u2019s tough talk didn\u2019t get a lot of support online, and it\u2019s partially due to Jeffrey Epstein, who died in jail while awaiting trial on charges of sex trafficking young women and girls.<\/p>\n
Earlier this week, Trump-appointed officials in the DOJ and FBI claimed that there is no evidence of an Epstein client list, nor evidence that the convicted sex offender and disgraced financier was murdered, dashing a couple of right-wing consipracy theories.<\/p>\n
Ever since then, disenchanted MAGA fans have become slightly less convinced that the GOP itself actually cares about stopping \u201cm*rderers, r*pists, and p*dophiles.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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