‘You’ve Hit a Shocking New Low’

Preet Bharara slams Rep. Doug Collins (R-GA) for asserting on Fox News that Democrats “are in love with terrorists. We see that they mourn Soleimani more than they mourn our Gold Star families.”

“I realize that you are a politician and that hyperbolic, hyperpartisan claptrap is the unfortunate fashion of the day. But even allowing for the new normal of nastiness in political rhetoric, your casual slur of countless good Americans hits a new bottom…”

“You are not a talk radio host or a carnival barker. You are a pastor, an attorney and a sitting member of Congress. Therefore, the evidence would suggest you should know better. To utter such garbage, which you know to be false and defamatory, goes against all the training and teaching you must have received. But you got your cheap shot across, and perhaps that’s all that matters to you.”