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GOP Senator Josh Hawley loses book contract, mentor, main donor after the Capitol attack, wins 2 hard-hitting editorials
If Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) Thought that leading the small group of Republican senators to challenge President-elect Joe Biden’s election victory on Wednesday would benefit him politically, it seems that the opposite has happened. On Thursday, former political mentor, former Senator John Danforth (R-Mo.) Called support for Hawley’s Senate candidacy as “the worst mistake I have ever made in my life”, a Republican donor who gave millions for his campaigns denounced him as “a political opportunist willing to subvert the Constitution”, Simon & Schuster canceled his book contract and the two largest newspapers in Missouri asked him to resign immediately.> From our Francis Chung, Senator Josh Hawley greeting the protesters on the east side of the Capitol before the riots started. pic.twitter.com/I8DjBCDuoP >> – Manuel Quinones (@ManuelQ) January 6, 2021 “If Hawley had shown any evidence that there is a consciousness somewhere, behind the ambition and the artifice and the unusual combination of effort and laziness that he somehow got a job for him, “he resigned, The Kansas City Star said in an editorial. “We cannot appeal to a sense of decency that does not exist. But we can say that Hawley, who raised a fist in encouragement to people like that proud hillbilly who set foot on the table of Mayor Nancy Pelosi, cannot continue to be our man in Washington, and for that he will have to be expelled. “The Senate, added the editorialists of the Star,” must do more than censor his treacherous behavior. ” “Hawley’s delay, the condemnation in disguise of violence is at the top of his substantial list of false, flattering and politically convenient statements,” the St. Louis Post-Dispatch said in an editorial. “Hawley’s presidential aspirations were dashed because of his role in instigating Wednesday’s attack on democracy. He should do the residents of Missouri and the rest of the country a big favor and resign now.” Joplin’s manager David Humphreys, who personally and with his family largely financed disputes by Hawley’s attorney general and the Senate, told the Missouri Independent on Thursday that Hawley “showed his true face as an anti populist -democratic in supporting Trump’s false claim of a ‘stolen election’ “and asked the Senate to censor him. Simon & Schuster, however, said he” cannot support Sen. Hawley after his role in what has become a dangerous threat to our democracy and freedom. “> Pic.twitter.com/NdIkmGbCFI >> – Simon & Schuster (@simonschuster) January 7, 2021Hawley said Simon & Schuster was making a” direct attack on the First Amendment “and threatened to sue for breach of contract. More stories from theweek.com 7 biting caricatures about the Trump riot on Capitol Hill and there will be no heir to Trump. Will the legislature react?