Steve King duped into praising fictional Marine colonel

Published July 5, 2019 2:21am ET



Rep. Steve King praised a fictional Marine Corps colonel on the Fourth of July.

The Iowa Republican appeared to get duped Thursday evening by a Young Turks reporter named Ken Klippenstein, who asked King to give a retweet to his “uncle” Col. Nathan Jessup.

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