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Anger isn’t a leadership style, but Crenshaw keeps trying to sell it as one.

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When a politician throws more tantrums than punches for America, something is wrong.

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Public “rage moments” aren’t random. They’re red flags.

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If foreign travel gets revoked over drinking, you don’t have a PR problem. You have a real problem.

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People who scream about “decency” always seem to lose theirs first.

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Trying to cancel Tucker while acting like a blackout tourist abroad isn’t strategy. It’s projection.

BRIEFING

Jett here. Dan Crenshaw has spent years branding himself as the tough guy in Congress, but lately it feels like he is one bad mood away from using Capitol Hill as his own personal rage room. Let’s get into it.

This is a guy who shows up to town halls and unloads on a little girl for asking a basic question.

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This is a guy who walked into Congress with what appear to be bloody knuckles while staff whispered about walls getting punched silly in his office.

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Rep. Dan Crenshaw’s behavior is spiraling out of control, and the signs are impossible to ignore. His unhinged tirades against MAGA supporters go far beyond unprofessional—they expose a volatile and unstable temperament. And who could forget the 'bloody knuckles' incident during the McCarthy Speaker vote? Rumors swirled that he either punched a wall—or worse, a colleague—in a fit of rage. Add to that his recent online outbursts and rage tweets, and you have to wonder if there’s something deeper going on. Is this really the kind of person we trust to handle national security matters on the House Intel Committee? @SpeakerJohnson
, it’s time to act. Pull this unhinged hothead from such a critical role before his instability causes further damage. America deserves better. Stability matters.

A guy who melts down on critics with a level of hostility that always feels a few beats past normal political frustration. Remember when he threatened to kill Tucker Carlson?

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People don’t behave like this when they’re grounded. They behave like this when they’re barely holding the line.

And then comes the latest alleged Mexico incident. A report claims that Congressional leadership quietly pulled Dan off all foreign travel for three months after he embarrassed himself on an official trip. If true, that kind of suspension doesn’t just appear out of thin air. Leadership protects their own unless the situation is bad enough to leave a mark. Crenshaw left a mark.

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Top House Republicans have quietly moved to bar Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) from traveling abroad for the next three months after what sources described as an alcohol-related incident during an official congressional delegation to Mexico, according to new reporting from Punchbowl News.

The restriction, imposed by GOP leadership, prevents the Texas congressman from joining any foreign CODELs through early next year. The decision reportedly followed an internal review of Crenshaw’s behavior during the trip, though details about the incident itself remain closely held.

Punchbowl News revealed that Crenshaw’s conduct triggered enough concern among senior Republicans that they opted for a formal three-month suspension from international travel. While lawmakers often face private reprimands for inappropriate behavior on foreign trips, a documented travel ban from leadership is far more rare.

Neither Crenshaw nor his office have publicly responded to the report.

All of this alleged drunken humiliation was unfolding right as Dan jumped on the “censor Tucker Carlson” campaign to flatter the Israel First crowd. Globalist Dan Crenshaw wants voters to believe he’s the voice of moral authority, while his public record looks like a collection of outbursts stitched together by ego, vodka, and impulse. The anger is loud. But Dan's instability is even louder.

And now there’s an unavoidable question forming around the edges of his rage-filled behavior. Is Dan Crenshaw’s bizarre anger and outbursts coming from the same place that may have got him benched from foreign travel? Because when a politician keeps exploding in public, lashing out at critics, and now reportedly getting reprimanded over booze on official trips, people start connecting the dots on their own, and can you blame them?

And if the alleged Mexico incident wasn’t enough, leaked footage just made the situation look even worse. A clip appears to show Crenshaw in his congressional office "DJ’ing" with open bottles of alcohol scattered around him like a frat house, not a federal workplace. On the surface this looks reckless and bizarre, and it raises a real question about how someone behaving like this ends up sitting on the House Intelligence Committee.

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So now a lot of people are asking the obvious question. Is Dan Crenshaw an angry drunk, and does that explain the long trail of rage-filled moments behind him? It’s fair to ask, especially after the alleged Mexico meltdown. Maybe it’s time we start testing elected officials for drugs and alcohol the same way we test everyone else who holds power over people’s lives.

But Crenshaw insists the whole thing is being blown out of proportion and written off as political fodder.

Crenshaw jumped onto X to deny the reporting, blaming it all on “clickbait,” “anonymous sources,” and a supposed misunderstanding about House Ethics approval. He claims his overseas trip was canceled because of the government shutdown, not because of a disciplinary ban, and insists everyone can “pull receipts.” It’s a polished statement, the kind politicians issue when they’re trying to steady the narrative. But even with the denial, the larger pattern doesn’t change. When a member of Congress is surrounded by stories about alcohol-fueled mistakes, rage blowups, and leadership interventions, the explanation starts sounding less like clarity and more like damage control.

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Big problem with this clickbait story: I was booked to go on an overseas CODEL, which was fully approved by House Ethics, from October 1st to October 6th of this year. The CODEL was canceled right before departure due to the government shutdown, but not due to any so-called “travel ban”. This is a fact: people can pull receipts. Once again, we are dealing with the usual media playbook of publishing sensational stories based on ananonymous sources and incorrect facts.

Crenshaw doubled down on his defense, arguing that the entire story is being distorted and that the so-called “alcohol-related incident” was nothing more than him doing a polite toast with Mexican generals. He posted the headline, insisted people read past the paywall, and framed the whole situation as political noise rather than anything serious.

But here’s where things get murkier. According to reporting from Hill sources, Crenshaw was allegedly barred from taxpayer-funded international travel for 90 days by the chair of his committee — a move that isn’t standard procedure and doesn’t usually happen over a simple toast. Ethics can approve privately funded travel, but that doesn’t negate the possibility that leadership may have placed limits elsewhere. None of this proves anything on its own, but the conflicting explanations raise more questions than they answer.

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Another problem with this headline, this “alcohol related incident” is literally me doing a toast with Mexican Generals. Just read past the paywall. I’ve copied it here for all to see:

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DEBRIEFING

Something in this whole situation doesn’t add up. Crenshaw’s defense feels a little too convenient, and the timing raises more questions than it answers. If this really was just an innocent toast with foreign officials, it’s hard to understand why senior leadership allegedly stepped in with a travel freeze. That kind of move is rare, and leadership doesn’t risk political blowback unless they believe there’s more beneath the surface.

And the reason this story gained so much traction is because Crenshaw’s past and current behavior has been so erratic that people naturally connected the dots. The town-hall meltdowns. The bloody knuckles. The public rage fits. The lashing out at critics with death threats... when someone in elected office cycles through that many volatile moments, a report of an alcohol-related incident doesn’t sound shocking. It sounds like the missing puzzle piece.

Does that prove anything? No. But when a politician repeatedly acts unstable in public, people start asking whether something deeper is influencing those choices. Maybe it’s drinking. Maybe it’s pressure. Maybe it’s ego. Maybe it’s a mix of everything. Or maybe the anger is simply who he is. Whatever the reason, the behavior is impossible to ignore.

And this instability doesn’t stop with outbursts. There’s another pattern emerging in his financial activity that raises its own concerns.

A breakdown circulating online shows Crenshaw claiming he only had “about twenty thousand dollars” in the stock market. Yet records reportedly show that by March 2024 he had around $150,000 invested and was outperforming the market by over one hundred percent. His net worth sits in the millions. For someone who lectures voters on morality and responsibility, the numbers tell a totally different story.

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Dan Crenshaw caught LYING about Stock Market activity On the left) Dan Crenshaw “You know how much f*cking money I've ever had in the stock market? About $20,000” THAT’S A LIE On the right) March 2024 he had $150k and OUTPERFORMING the market, up 110% New Worth: $4.4 million

Crenshaw served this country with real sacrifice. That deserves respect. It always will. But military service doesn’t automatically make someone a stable leader, a loyal representative, or a good steward of political power. Many honorable veterans go on to become excellent public servants. Others fall into the same traps that pull so many politicians off course. Insider trading. Ego trips, foreign-policy crusades, rage, money, influence — it can twist anyone.

Maybe Crenshaw is wrestling with something personal. Maybe the drinking rumors hint at a deeper struggle. Maybe this is someone who needs help before he spirals further. But whatever the case, Texas deserves clarity, not chaos. And at some point, voters need to ask whether this globalist, unstable brand of leadership still serves them or anyone else.

NOW YOU KNOW

Sometimes the best way to respect a man’s service is to retire him from the job he’s no longer fit to carry.