Fox Host Attacks Veteran for Being Paid to Travel and ‘Murder Brown People’

Fox News podcast host Ben Domenech has attacked a U.S. Marine veteran and Senate hopeful for being paid to vacation and “murder brown people,” amid a Twitter spat among the two men.

The argument began when Lucas Kunce, a 13-calendar year Marine veteran running for the Democratic nomination for a U.S. Senate seat for Missouri, wrote a column for Fox Information indicating Republicans had turned their backs on veterans by blocking a monthly bill that would have “expanded medical coverage for millions of combatants exposed to harmful melt away pits through their provider.”

Kunce, 39, is a former marine who was exposed to harmful burn off pits though preventing in Iraq in 2009. In the column, he advocated acquiring rid of the filibuster to go the law.

Kunce will be operating in the Senate main in Missouri on Tuesday, his main challenger staying Trudy Busch Valentine.

Domenech, who hosts the Ben Domenech Podcast and is an editor at huge at conservative U.K. magazine The Spectator, criticized Kunce on Twitter, saying getting rid of the filibuster was “authoritarian horsec***” and that the veteran should not “sweep absent the tenets of authorities simply because it would not accord to your wishes.”

Kunce responded: “What is horses*** is when persons like you act like some archaic Senate treatment is additional vital than wellness care for our veterans. I received sent to Iraq and Afghanistan, so I am going to be damned if some Bush White Household toady is going to lecture me about democracy.

Domenech shot back: “I will not think we desired to spend you to journey throughout the planet and murder brown people today, Lucas. You should really in all probability send that money back.”

“I most popular the version of @LucasKunceMO that ran a ten years and a fifty percent back when he was professional-everyday living instead of this pretend Democrat,” he extra.

When he contested an election for Missouri condition representative back again in 2006, Kunce in the beginning ran as an anti-abortion Democratic prospect. He dropped to Republican Mark Bruns. Kunce is now running on a ticket supporting abortion legal rights.

Newsweek has contacted Kunce for comment.

Meanwhile, in an job interview with ABC News, Sen. Invoice Cassidy claimed he supported the veterans invoice, even with voting against it. Cassidy experienced voted for the monthly bill a thirty day period ago.

“The bill will move and I strongly aid it. We have to stand by our veterans who have been uncovered to these chemical substances,” the Louisiana Republican said.

“There was a drafting mistake. A $400 billion drafting error that Democrats promised Republicans would get a vote on an amendment to repair. They denied us that vote. So what we’re asking is give us the vote on the modification, permit us attempt and go right after a $400 billion drafting mistake. By the way additional than [Sen. Joe] Manchin promises this bill will lessen the deficit by.”

Some Republican senators, like Cassidy and Pat Toomey, believe that the veterans monthly bill generates an further $400 billion in discretionary spending unrelated to veterans, that means Congress can hide a spending binge.

Cassidy reported he would vote for the bill’s closing passage.

Correction 8/1/22 9:49 a.m. EDT: This post was current to show that Ben Domenech hosts a podcast on Fox Information audio, alternatively than currently being a Fox Information Radio host.