‘Doing What It Takes to Get Our Country Back’
Failed former Tea Party Republican U.S. Congressman Joe Walsh of Illinois suggests he’ll allow the presidential election to play out but if Donald Trump doesn’t win, he will resort to grabbing his gun and doing “what it takes to get our country back.”
And apparently, his gun is a “musket.”
The far right wing activist, now a talk radio host who claims to be “the new voice of freedom,” appeared to suggest he might lead an armed insurrection, as The Week noted.
CNN’s Jake Tapper via Twitter asked Walsh to clarify:
Elsewhere on Twitter, many were outraged, and some, those more familiar with Walsh, just mocked him:
Walsh in 2011 was often called a “deadbeat dad” for owing “more than $117,000 in child support to his ex-wife and three children,” as ThinkProgress and others reported. In 2013 the Chicago Sun-Times reported Walsh requested a court to allow him to stop paying his child support payments because he was no longer employed.
In July, U.S. Rep. Keith Ellison asked the DOJ “to investigate whether a former U.S. congressman’s tweet ‘constitutes a terroristic threat against’ President Barack Obama, warning that its language could ‘incite violence.'”
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