Our Congressman has had some colorful incidents in his past.
... SNIP ... I also asked Grimm about a 1999 night-club incident in which Grimm, who was an agent at the time, was accused by an off-duty N.Y.P.D. officer of threatening a fellow patron (“I’ll fuckin’ make him disappear where nobody will find him,” Grimm is alleged to have said), waving a gun at the officer (“I’m gonna fuckin’ kill him”), and using racially-charged language in the fracas’s aftermath (“All the white people get out of here”).
New Yorker
Grimm again denied any wrongdoing, and coasted to reëlection in 2012. Since then, his only brushes with impropriety involved reports that he had sex with a woman in a Brooklyn bar bathroom and a strange incident in which Grimm claimed that vandals smashed the windows of his Staten Island office in order to wipe the hard drives on his campaign computers. After Grimm announced that the attacks were a “politically motivated crime” and an “assault on democracy,” police could find no evidence that the computers were tampered with at all. An eighth-grader later confessed to the vandalism
So, yes, someone has a little machismo problem going. I imagine he's compensating for some sort of insecurity somewhere.
Maybe his daddy used to beat him when he was a little boy?
8:48 AM PT: Grimm has apologized, intends to ask Scotto to lunch: TPM