Brian Mast has already given two legs in the service of his country.
Now in his second term in Congress, he’s given more in public service than most Americans ever will.
On Thursday, he gave CNN’s Jake Tapper a lesson in democracy — and class.
The Florida Republican, who lost his legs to an improvised explosive device while serving with the Army in Afghanistan in 2010, was responding to a snide aside Tapper delivered Wednesday night during a panel discussion about last week’s violent incursion by supporters of President Donald Trump at the Capitol.
CNN host Dana Bash noted that video showed some of those involved in the incursion had said Trump told his followers to go to the Capitol — as though that were proof that Trump was responsible for what followed.
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REALLY, JAKE? YOU MAKE ME PHYSICALLY ILL. THIS VETERAN, WHO LOST TWO LEGS OVERSEAS SO YOU COULD SPEW YOUR BULLSHIT, EVEN SAID HE WOULD FORGIVE YOU IF YOU APOLOGIZED.
VERY BIG OF HIM AS I WILL NEVER FORGIVE YOU, JAKE.
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Tapper picked up on that and — with the offensive smugness affected superiority of a liberal late-night comedian playing to an ignorant audience — proceeded to call into question the values of a double-amputee who nearly died in military service to his country.
“Congressman Brian Mast, a Republican from Florida — who lost his legs, by the way, fighting for democracy abroad, although I don’t know … about his commitment to it here in the United States, he said, ‘Did anybody say that?’” Tapper said <<<<<<<<<<<<<<
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