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Column: California Republican tasked with assessing GOP flaws needn’t look far. She’s part of the problem

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Anyone with a beating heart and sliver of humanity reacted to the October attack on Paul Pelosi in similar fashion, with a combination of shock and horror that transcended politics.

Not Harmeet Dhillon.

The Republican national committeewoman from California leapt onto Twitter to spin conspiratorial speculation about the dark-of-night invasion of Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s home and the assault on her husband by a hammer-wielding crazy.

Dillon’s heedless conjecture was then picked up and amplified by the extravagantly malicious Tucker Carlson, who even name-checked the San Francisco lawyer and MAGA cheerleader on his Fox News propaganda hour. Dhillon is a regular on Fox and other right-wing media, sowing unfounded doubts about election integrity, among other gaseous claims.

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