Left-wing hypocrisy is once again on full display.
On Wednesday, the Seattle Times reported that Rep. Pramila Jayapal, a progressive Democrat from Washington State, had spent $45,000 on a security fence around her home, with the money coming from campaign contributions.
Jayapal, who represents Washington’s 7th district, said the fence was needed after threats were made against her life and a man with a gun showed up at her home.
“I’ve had threats against my life, including a man showing up with a gun at my door, and I never in a million years thought that I would need to take such strong steps to protect my safety and security just to be able to do my job, the job that people elected me to do,” Jayapal said.
In 2022, a Seattle resident named Brett Forsell was arrested in front of the congresswoman’s house with a loaded .40-caliber handgun. In July, Forsell pleaded guilty to misdemeanor stalking and was sentenced to 364 days in jail. He has additionally been ordered to have no contact with Jayapal and has been banned from owning firearms for eight years.
This, apparently, was the incident that led Rep. Jayapal to build an expensive security fence around her home.
While there is nothing wrong with the congresswoman having a fence to protect herself and her property, unfortunately, her words from years ago have come back to haunt her.
In a 2017 Twitter rant, when she criticized then-President Trump’s immigration policies, she described border walls as “racist.”
“Trump’s racist agenda still looms large: Border walls, deportations, white nationalist dog whistles. We have work to do,” she wrote.
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