A baseless conspiracy theory about President Donald Trump’s relationship with retiring Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy got a Democratic Senate candidate and prominent progressive commentator in trouble with the Washington Post’s fact-checker.
Richard Painter, the former George W. Bush White House ethics lawyer turned 2018 Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate, claimed Tuesday that raised “middle fingers” are the only thing awaiting President Donald Trump on an upcoming visit to Minnesota.
Democratic Senate candidate Richard Painter sent out a tweet on Wednesday asking what the point of the Revolutionary War with Britain was since the United States now has a president “guilty of treason” and doesn’t have a single-payer health care system.
Richard Painter, the vice-chair of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), a left-wing ethics watchdog group that has regularly filed complaints with the Federal Election Commission, lacks the required FEC disclaimers on the contribution page of his recently launched exploratory committee for a potential Senate run in Minnesota.
