Remember Michael Grimm, the Bronx Republican congressman who just got released from prison with a conviction of 20 counts of fraud, tax evasion, and perjury? Plus, he threatened to push a reporter off a balcony, but didn’t even get in trouble for that?
Well, he’s back.
Bless his heart, he didn’t even get chance to wipe the prison mud off his freshly shined shoes before he announced that he’s running for congress again.
He doesn’t have Sarah Palin’s or Chris Christie’s endorsement this time. But, he’s got this … Steve Bannon. In an interview this month, Grimm made it clear who is mentoring him.
Bannon, he added, thought he was a populist — and surely if anyone would know, it’d be him. “He basically said that he wants to support me, he likes that I’m straightforward. I think that he said I’m a fire-breathing populist or something like that.” And it doesn’t help that his understanding of his own policy positions is, at best, shaky.
To their credit, his Republican colleagues aren’t real happy about him running again, or the possibility of him returning to congress. They say he’s “a loud-mouthed punk.” I guess he’s kinda like a wise guy version of Ted Cruz.
To show you how serious he is about running on Trump’s coattails, he was willing to admit that he’s lost all depth perception and sense of reality. Describing his first meeting with Trump, Grimm relates …
“I remember saying to myself, I never realized what a large man — I mean stature-wise, he’s a big man, with massive hands. I don’t have small hands, but when I shook hands with him, the first time I shook hands with him, I realized he was a big man.”
With a big butt and Grimm’s got his nose stuck up it.
