The Kansas town hall attendee whose question prompted Sen. Roger Marshall (R-KS) to flee his own constituents over the weekend turned his ire Monday evening onto tech billionaire Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency.
The brutal takedown of Musk from Chuck Nunn, a voter in ruby red Kansas, came Monday just two days after Marshall was booed out of a town hall when Nunn questioned him about federal cuts affecting veterans – which he called a “shame.”
“Some people can't handle the truth,” Nunn told CNN’s Erin Burnett.
He saved his fiercest attacks for Musk after delivering an emotional account of his family’s war sacrifices for the United States, including during World War II. Nunn said his father’s experience “in the cleanup of a couple of concentration camps” changed his personality.
“This probably isn't why you called, but you know, to see a South African immigrant stand up on the stage, wave a chainsaw around – it just absolutely sickens me,” Nunn said. “That's disgusting. That's repulsive. And that is un-American to have that same guy, and his group of thugs have the ability to take and go through my personal information at will, is frightening, and it's – I don't have the words for it. I’m sorry.”
Burnett noted to Nunn that his face-to-face with Marshall was done "in a passionate way,” and “wasn't confrontational.”
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“He obviously just didn't want to engage on the issue,” Burnett told him.
Nunn, who said he’s voted for Marshall in the past, told Burnett he doesn’t understand why the Republican lawmaker reacted the way he did at Saturday’s town hall.
“I honestly believe that I don't hate the man,” Nunn said Monday. "I honestly believe that he’s a decent individual…why he would stand up there and lie to us over and over again – does he think that we're stupid out here? Has he been away from his roots for too long? I just, I just don't understand it, and I don't get it.”
He also put to rest a MAGA conspiracy theory pushed by President Donald Trump over the weekend in a Truth Social post where he stated that “paid ‘troublemakers’ are attending Republican Town Hall Meetings.”
“You know, it makes no sense if they were going to have a paid actor, they would pick somebody a hell of a lot better looking than I am, and someone that's much better spoken than I am,” he said. “Makes no sense.”
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