Lawrence O’Donnell Blasts Texas GOP Ignoring Uvalde in New Platform: ‘More Concerned’ with Tow Trucks Than Mass Murder
MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell tore into the Texas GOP on Monday night, blasting a new platform document released by them for including more language about “predatory towing” than the recent elementary school shooting in Uvalde.
The document also includes the party rejecting President Joe Biden as being “legitimately elected” and even leaves the door open for Texas to secede from the United States.
O’Donnell highlighted new revelations about the police response to the Uvalde shooting, including a report suggesting previous claims that police did not have tools to open a door to a room where the gunman had barricaded himself were false. O’Donnell blasted Republicans for not specifically mentioning Uvalde in the platform, nor the 21 students and teachers who lost their lives.
“Texas GOP is more concerned with tow trucks than mass murder,” the segment was titled.
“They issued written demands about everything, from patent law, to food labeling, and medicine labeling, and predatory towing,” O’Donnell said.
He then read the demands on “predatory towing.”
“We urge the Texas legislature to enact legislation increasing the criminal penalties resulting from predatory towing, and decreasing the state allowed amount that a tower can charge, to disincentivize the practice of predatory towing,” the document reads.
The document is so expansive, it covers “every single thing they care about in the world, literally the world,” O’Donnell said.
The MSNBC host also took aim at the platform taking time to rebuke Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) and other senators who have shown support for bipartisan gun legislation in the wake of the Uvalde shooting.
“The final item in this seemingly endless list of grievances against the world and against the United States and against the president of the United States, and against tow trucks, the final line in the official platform of the Texas Republican Party is a rebuke to the senior senator from Texas, Republican John Cornyn,” O’Donnell said.
The Texas GOP, O’Donnell added, is denying the reality of Uvalde, saying they “[refuse] to acknowledge that that mass murder even happened.”
Watch above via MSNBC.
