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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsJosh Hawley's schooldays: 'He made popcorn to watch the Iraq invasion'
(Guardian UK) Before Josh Hawley became known as a leader of the attempt to overturn the 2020 election in the US Congress, he was remembered by former students and staff at St Pauls, the elite British school for boys where he spent a year teaching, as an aloof, rightwing political obsessive who had made himself popcorn to watch the US invasion of Iraq.
The Republican senator from Missouri has been the target of ire of millions of Americans after he became the first senator to say he would object to election results. Ultimately, 146 congressional Republicans joined the rightwing lawmaker in seeking to block votes from Pennsylvania and Arizona from being counted, an extraordinary move that was seen as stoking the flames of a pro-Trump mob who attacked the US Capitol.
Before the assault, Hawley was photographed walking past the crowd and raising his fist in salute to them.
While Hawley has painted himself as a man of the American heartland, and has expressed contempt for what he says is the USs liberal elite, the graduate of Stanford and Yale Law School, who once clerked for the supreme court chief justice, John Roberts, spent a year in suburban London in 2002, at the top all-boys private school St Pauls that dates back to 1509. ...........(more)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/feb/12/josh-hawley-st-pauls-british-school
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