On ABC’s Top Line today, Rep.-elect Allen West (R-FL) doubled down on his support of his almost-chief of staff, right-wing talk radio host Joyce Kaufman. Kaufman backed out of the job after increased attention to her pro-insurgency rhetoric.
She’s a “very brilliant political mind,” West said today.
Kaufman recently called outgoing Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) “garbage” and earlier this year called for violent revolution if the Republicans didn’t win the midterm elections.
West added that media criticism of Kaufman has been “absolutely reprehensible” and that “the things are being said about her” demonstrate the “duplicitous hypocrisy” of the mainstream media.
