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Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day: Trent Kelly- 2023 Update [1]

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Date: 2023-10-01  

In 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, as well as in 2022, “Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day” profile of the U.S. House Representative from Mississippi’s 1st Congressional District, Trent Kelly, a former District Attorney, who when he was presented with the opportunity to prosecute a hate crime committed against Devin Norman on federal charges, a man who was brutally beaten for being gay in March of 2015. Campaigning solely on his service to his country, Kelly won a terribly crowded GOP Primary against more challengers than can be counted on your fingers, in spite of having almost no stated stances on the issues. And the only thing he did specify is that he would like the 14th Amendment, which normally covers birthright citizenship to also cover “pre-born human beings”. For those needing a translation of what that means, it means that Kelly’s making an end-around attack on Roe v. Wade by having the 14th Amendment declare zygotes and fetuses to be fully functional human beings and not just clumps of cells, so they get the constitutional rights that would make aborting them murder.

So it probably will come as little surprise that right around the time Trent Kelly arrived in Washington, D.C., and the Republican Party was s***ting itself in fury over the Center for Medical Progress’ “sting” video of Planned Parenthood, that he signed onto a letter promising he would vote to shut down the government if Planned Parenthood was not defunded, based off of a video that experts have debunked as a fraud. During the controversy over the Trump administration’s “family separation” policy in July of 2018, Rep. Kelly went on record after touring immigrant detention centers that were imprisoning children in cages and deemed those methods “appropriate”.



Trent Kelly survived re-election in 2020 even with the FEC investigating his illegal campaign fundraising finances of accepting donations larger than the allowed limit, and was doing everything he could to avoid talking about how his state was one of the worst in Covid-19 vaccination rates and its medical system is being overwhelmed by the unvaccinated spreading the disease. When he was cornered about it, he certainly was speaking out of both sides of his mouth, recommending people get vaccinated, but calling any effort to mandate people in government employ to do so “illegal and unconstitutional”.

Guess he’s only “pro-life” when the lives are still at the zygote stage.

In 2022, Kelly has furthered racist narratives against the Chinese and Chinese Americans, claiming that the Chinese have “infiltrated” American universities in an interview with The Daily Signal, a “news site” conveniently run by the conservative think tank the Heritage Foundation.



Oh, and speaking of his opinions on our geopolitical adversaries? Russia’s invasion of Ukraine was actually because of “weakness” that the United States showed by leaving Afghanistan, in his opinion.



He neglects to mention, of course, that Donald Trump, the leader of his party, was the one that signed off on leaving with the Taliban, and is the real source of weakness. More importantly, he also neglects to mention Russia is in the wrong for doing it… he just lays blame.



Trent Kelly won re-election in 2022 with 73% of the vote, and resumed having one of the most conservative voting records, even for most Bible Belt Republicans:



With a conservative as a district as Mississippi’s 1st is, if Trent Kelly escapes the primary, he will coast to re-election in MS-1 until he shuffles off the mortal coil.

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