Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) has threatened to sue a publication after it revealed details of his tax returns, which he had sent to them by mistake.
According to Lagniappe Daily, which broke the original story, “In a cease-and-desist letter emailed Saturday afternoon, the former Auburn coach’s attorneys demanded the article be removed, accused Lagniappe of ‘unlawfully accessing’ the information.” The letter further “claimed it was illegally published without Tuberville’s consent, and … it was not protected speech under the First Amendment.”
If AOC had emailed her tax info out you know damn well that Fox, Newsmax and the rest of the GOP propaganda machine would not have hesitated to publish every detail and it would be her own damned fault. The idea that the Republicans would ever abide by anything resembling a political golden rule is credulous at best and it is one of the things that has created the right wing control of all three branches of government .
Tuberville is the very incarnation of stupid, created his own problem and deserves every bit of it. Now he’s going to learn about the Streisand Effect and he’ll deserve that too.