South Carolina Republican Rep. Mark Sanford hinted that President Donald Trump was to blame for a political climate in which a Republican congressional candidate allegedly assaulted a reporter.
“There is total weirdness out there,” Sanford was quoted saying in a tweet from Washington Post reporter Mike DeBonis. “And, like I said, he’s unearthed some demons, and people can feel like if the president of the United States can say anything to anybody at any time than I guess I can too, and that is a very, very dangerous phenomenon.”