If I were reporter Josh Renaud, I would seriously consider suing Mike Parsons for defamation. He was publicly accused of committing a specific felony that *so obviously* does not apply that I’d think it counts as “reckless disregard for whether it was false or not."
https://twitter.com/jackgillum/status/1480928577004650499
*Parson
I note that Mike Parson used to be a sheriff, which makes it even more sketchy that his knee-jerk response to criticism is to fabricate a crime he can falsely accuse the critic of.
If he’s willing to make this embarrassingly stupid a claim in public as governor, you’ve got to wonder whether he ever arrested people who annoyed him on made-up charges as sheriff.
(Minor correction: The crime Parsons falsely accused Renaud of is only a felony if committed for the purpose of executing a “scheme or artifice to defraud"; otherwise it’s a misdemeanor.)
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