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Michigan House Republican leaders said Wednesday they are punishing Detroit Democrat Rep. Cynthia Johnson because of a video in which she said “Trumpers” should “pay” after she received a series of explicit death threats and racist messages over the past week.
Rep. Cynthia Johnson has faced a barrage of right-wing criticism after sparring with Rudy Giuliani last week in the Michigan House Oversight Committee, where President Donald Trump’s personal attorney repeated unproven claims of voter fraud in an election won by Democrat Joe Biden.
Johnson, who is Black, on Saturday published a 45-second voicemail from a woman who called her a “big lip“ racial slur, and said she should be “swinging from a f—ing rope.” Johnson told BridgeDetroit she’s received numerous racist threats in the wake of what she called the Giuliani “clown show.”
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