‘His audience was really Trump’: How new FBI lead used his Missouri AG role to wage a culture war

‘His audience was really Trump’: How new FBI lead used his Missouri AG role to wage a culture war

Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey delivers a victory speech in Columbia while surrounded by his wife and children after winning the primary election on Tuesday, Aug. 6, 2024 (Anna Spoerre/Missouri Independent).This story was originally published by ProPublica. After a fight with a Black student in a St. Louis suburb left a white student badly injured in March 2024, Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey blamed their school district for un…

How new FBI lead used his Missouri AG role to wage a culture war

ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. Reporting Highlights Aggressive AG: As Missouri attorney general, Andrew Bailey often used the office to score culture war points, according to legal observers. A Stepping Stone: Like predecessors Josh Hawley and Eric Schmitt, who moved on from Missouri attorney general to the U.S. Senate, Bailey h…