While apologetic for his behavior that day—”I did a lot of sword-falling,” he says—he acknowledges that he was also initially “flippant” about it, and that he remains so to this day, due to what he says is the “absurd level of hate” that has been directed toward him.
He says he has a stack of handwritten letters from people “saying they’re going to rape and murder my family,” which includes five sons, ages 8 to 16, and his wife, a physician, and he showed several of those letters to Newsweek.
That flippant attitude began with a photo of him smiling as he carried Pelosi’s lectern across the Capitol Rotunda and later texted a friend that the photo was shared so much online that he “broke the internet.”
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