GOP Rep. Steve King has meltdown after being confronted about his racism

| 11:50 pm EDT November 1, 2018
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Earlier this week, Palmer Report asked why the national Republican Party was suddenly throwing notoriously racist Congressman Steve King under the bus, after having seemingly been just fine with his racism for the past several years. Even as we attempt to piece together what’s really going on here with the GOP, it turns out King himself isn’t exactly taking the news well.

Steve King decided to hold a public event today, and for some reason, he didn’t bother to prepare himself for the questions he was inevitably going to face about his white supremacist views. When he got the question, he went berserk about it. King interrupted the guy and accused him of being an “ambusher” before going on to say “You’re done. You crossed the line … this is over, if you don’t stop talking.”

Again, this was a sitting Congressman responding to someone who asked him a question during a public forum, where the whole point was for people to ask him questions, about a scandal that’s become so ugly, his own party leadership has formally condemned him for it. Steve King clearly can’t take the heat for the white supremacist things he’s been saying and doing. Then again, racism always is a sign of weakness.

Meanwhile we’ve come to suspect that the national Republican Party is throwing Steve King under the bus in the hope of salvaging the Governor’s race in King’s state of Iowa. GOP incumbent Governor Kim Reynolds, whose campaign is closely tied to King, is in severe danger of losing her reelection bid. This still leaves us with the question: if the GOP is doing this to King, it is because it expects him to lose? Oddly enough, he’s in a close race for reelection of his own.