Democratic Sen. Richard Blumenthal responded to Donald Trump’s extraordinary social media threat on Tuesday night as it was read out to him on live TV.
The president attacked Blumenthal after a fiery exchange between the Connecticut senator and Attorney General Pam Bondi on Capitol Hill earlier in the day.
Trump followed Bondi by seizing on an old scandal that has dogged the senator for years. Blumenthal was busted for exaggerating his military experience, and has long suffered attacks from Republicans.
Indeed, Bondi confronted him over it during her Senate testimony on Tuesday, but Trump took it to a whole new level later in the day by appearing to threaten the lawmaker with prison time.
Trump evoked jailed former congressman George Santos and wrote on Truth Social: “This guy shouldn