Congress's sleaziest unjailed doxxer, Rep. Joaquin Castro of Texas, went and "outed" 44 Republican local San Antonio–based donors to President Trump's re-election campaign.  He got a lot of flak for it, of course.  But instead of apologizing for his obvious effort to incite harassment of his own locals for exercising their constitutional right to participate in political campaigns, he doubled down with this unmitigated dreck:

My post was a lament - that so many people in my overwhelmingly Hispanic hometown would give large money to a President who is using it to target Hispanics as ‘invaders’.

No one was doxxed — no private address or phone #s were shared. I’ve never engaged in that.@Morning_Joe pic.twitter.com/DgdX3wkJWI

— Joaquin Castro (@JoaquinCastrotx) August 7, 2019

No one was targeted or harassed in my post. You know that. All that info is routinely published.

You’re trying to distract from the racism that has overtaken the GOP and the fact that President Trump spends donor money on thousands of ads about Hispanics “invading” America. 1/2 https://t.co/TwUDC4m5tO

— Joaquin Castro (@JoaquinCastrotx) August 7, 2019

Anyone who believes that Castro is capable of a "lament" is out to lunch.  His series of tweets were pure malevolence, worsened by a barrage of bald-faced lies trying to make himself look like the good guy.

It all went swimmingly for him, too.  Until Fox News turned up an uncomfortable fact:

EXCLUSIVE: Trump donors whose names and employers were posted in a highly controversial tweet by Democratic Rep. Joaquin Castro blasted the Texas congressman on Wednesday for what they described as a "ridiculous" stunt and, in interviews with Fox News, rejected his claim that they are "fueling a campaign of hate" against Hispanics.

One of those Trump donors even revealed he's also been a supporter of local Democratic lawmakers — including Castro himself.

And the Washington Examiner found out that there were six of them:

In attempting to embarrass constituents who donated to President Trump, Texas congressman Joaquin Castro appears to have overlooked the fact that six of those he named also gave cash to him and his twin brother, 2020 Democrat Julián Castro.

Joaquin Castro on Monday drew a torrent of criticism when the Twitter account operated by his reelection campaign listed 44 residents of San Antonio who donated the maximum amount to President Trump's campaign for reelection so far this year.

"Sad to see so many San Antonians as 2019 maximum donors to Donald Trump — the owner of ⁦@BillMillerBarBQ⁩, owner of the ⁦@HistoricPearl, realtor Phyllis Browning, etc⁩." the Monday tweet said. "Their contributions are fueling a campaign of hate that labels Hispanic immigrants as 'invaders.'"

So after declaring these donors as people who are "fueling a campaign of hate," we now learn that quite a few of them also contributed to Castro's campaign.

GOP chief Ronna McDaniel has the only really good response to this kind of jackassery:

If all these Trump supporters are actually as bad as Castro claims, he and his brother should have no problem returning the thousands of dollars they took from them to fund their own campaigns.https://t.co/S4K20RSYaC

— Ronna McDaniel (@GOPChairwoman) August 8, 2019

It's time to pay up, Joaquin.  Your no-good brother Julián needs to return the cash, too. 

It's tainted, dirty cash by Joaquin's own reckoning, a cause for doxxing and harassment.  The little creep needs to be told to return it or be politically tainted as a hypocrite forever.  Even the Trump-Castro donors told Fox News they won't be giving this little weasel who doxxed them any more of it.  So now he needs to shell out, return the cash, because, as he claims, it's bad cash.  Let this dirty stunt on normal Americans exercising their constitutional rights cost him something.  Shell out, doofus.

Here's a fine lagniappe from McDaniel, posting a disgusted statement from a Latina voter:

You can't make this up.

Joaquin Castro put out a "target list" accusing @realDonaldTrump's supporters of "fueling a campaign of hate" against immigrants.

Included on the list is an immigrant – and she's blasting Castro for his political stunt. https://t.co/ppWwXm5qCM

— Ronna McDaniel (@GOPChairwoman) August 7, 2019

If he's that out of touch with the local sentiment in San Antonio, and has drawn even the contempt of Latino voters for it, maybe it's time for him to pack up anyway.  Dirty stunts are beautiful things when they blow back into the faces of their malice-minded perpetrators.

Image credit: Twitter screen shot.