Just dropped · Trial Balloon · Ep. 193
The Magnificent Seven
“Weeks after Politico reported that GOP congressional hopeful Cory Mills made his fortune selling tear gas used on Black Lives Matter demonstrators, the MAGA businessman boasted in a new ad that the ‘liberal media is crying about it’ before suggesting he’d tear-gas them himself,” the Daily Beast reports.
Said a smirking Mills while shooting gas canisters: “If the media wants to shed some real tears, I can help them out with that.”
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