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epublicans all the way up to the president unloaded on St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner this summer as she investigated and then charged a wealthy pair of married lawyers for pulling guns on protesters. “Kim Gardner owes every single family who has had a loved one murdered an explanation on why she has acted on the McCloskey case instead of theirs,” Missouri
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Governor Mike Parson tweeted. “This is part of a troubling pattern of politically motivated prosecutorial decisions by the St. Louis Circuit Attorney …,” wrote U.S. Senator Josh Hawley in a letter calling on U.S. Attorney William Barr to investigate Gardner. “It’s a disgrace,” President Trump told a conservative news website. ormally, the filing of a low-lev-
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el felony would not merit mention in St. Louis, much less nationally. But Mark and Patricia McCloskey were already on their way to Joe the Plumber status, joining the pantheon of randos plucked from obscurity for the latest campaign narrative. The couple appeared on Monday in a video for the Republican National Convention, warning Continued on pg 15
