By now, most of you have seen the video of New York GOP Congressman losing his shit. The New Yorker has some amazing details about Michael Grimm's past. Before politics, this raging lunatic was an FBI agent. With a gun. With which he allegedly threatened a romantic rival.
Grimm left the club, but at 4 A.M., just before the club closed, he returned again, according to Williams, this time with another F.B.I. agent and a group of N.Y.P.D. officers. Grimm had told the police that he had been assaulted by the estranged husband and his friends. Williams said that Grimm took command of the scene, and refused to let the remaining patrons and employees leave. “Everybody get up against the fucking wall,” Williams recalled him saying. “The F.B.I. is in control.” Then Grimm, who apparently wanted to find the man with whom he’d had the original altercation, said something that Williams said he’ll never forget: “All the white people get out of here.”
More below the fold.
An off-duty N.Y.P.D. officer named Gordon Williams, who was working at the nightclub, says that just after midnight Grimm entered with a woman. The woman’s estranged husband, who happened to be at the club, heatedly confronted Grimm. Williams helped separate the pair, for which Grimm thanked him. Williams recalls that Grimm then told him that the husband “don’t know who he’s fucking with … I’ll fuckin’ make him disappear where nobody will find him.” (Grimm has denied saying this.) Grimm, the woman, and the estranged husband all left the club.
You really need to read the whole article. How did this guy ever get elected?
Grimm has apparently always had a rough time with the press.
On Tuesday, in an interview with the editorial board of the Staten Island Advance, Congressman Michael Grimm from New York responded to a small portion of “The Mark,” the article I wrote for this week’s issue. He called it “fiction,” “a witch hunt,” and “a hatchet job” perpetrated in part by the Democratic Party. Much of Grimm’s substantive response mirrored what was included in the original story. But he also supplied additional statements, which include one documented error and other information contradicted by my reporting on the incident... Most of Grimm’s statements to the Advance echo what he told me, both in his office (before abruptly ending our interview, saying that “you don’t rate to come and question me on it, quite frankly”).
This guy appears to be an asshole of the highest order.
9:39 AM PT: H/t to txdoubledd for linking to TPM's detailed synopsis of this guy's past outbursts. Also, thanks for the rec list!