Greg Abbott Is Blaming the Texas Mall Shooting on “Anger” and “Mental Health.” It’s a Distraction

Tucker’s Next Act • Charisma-Free DeSantis • PBS in Peril [View in your browser]( | [Update your preferences](newsletter=vf) [Vanity Fair Hive logo image]( Greg Abbott Is Blaming the Texas Mall Shooting on “Anger” and “Mental Health.” It’s a Distraction Good morning from the Hive newsroom! As Texas reels from a mass shooting at a Dallas-area mall Saturday, Eric Lutz [pillories]( Governor Greg Abbott for attributing the massacre to “mental health” issues. “If Abbott really cared about fixing the mental health crisis in America, or about healing the country’s open political wounds,” Lutz writes, “he could take real, sustained action to do so.” Zooming out, Charlotte Klein has [the latest]( on Tucker Carlson’s next act after his abrupt departure from Fox News. Plus, Bess Levin [comments]( on Ron DeSantis’s astonishing lack of charisma—and why it could be the death of his potential 2024 presidential bid. [Greg Abbott Is Blaming the Texas Mall Shooting on “Anger” and “Mental Health.” It’s a Distraction]( By [Eric Lutz]( [The Texas governor is standing in the way of commonsense gun safety laws, and has run an administration that’s cut social services and dehumanized marginalized people. His policies have “made it easier to kill and be killed,” Texas congressman Joaquin Castro wrote.]( [Read more button](   [Tucker Carlson Plots Next Moves After Fox News—And It Could Get Even Messier Than It Already Is]( By [Charlotte Klein]( [The ousted right-wing host is said to be considering building his own media empire and hosting alternative election debates. But first he has to get out of his Fox contract, and he’s reportedly willing to go “DEFCON 1” to make that happen.]( [Read more button](   [Being an Unlikable Jerk Not Working Out So Well for Ron DeSantis]( By [Bess Levin]( [The Florida governor’s 2024 prospects appear to be drastically dwindling.]( [Read more button](   [Texas Mall Shooter Wore “Right Wing Death Squad” Patch, Officials Probing Possible Neo-Nazi Ties: Report]( By [Caleb Ecarma]( [The FBI apparently found that the suspect, who recently murdered eight people at a Dallas-area mall, shared “writings with racially or ethnically motivated violent extremist rhetoric.”]( [Read more button](   [Oklahoma Governor Claims PBS Is Indoctrinating Children, Because Republicans Are Contractually Obligated to Say This S--t Now]( By [Bess Levin]( [Kevin Stitt is just one of countless Republicans whose new pet cause is to protect children from the mere existence of LGBTQ+ people.]( [Read more button](   Get on the list Subscribe to our Hollywood newsletter for your essential industry and awards-season news, every day. [Sign Up Now](   [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [Instagram]( [LinkedIn](   This e-mail was sent to you by The Hive. To ensure delivery to your inbox (not bulk or junk folders), please add our e-mail address, vanityfair@newsletter.vf.com, to your address book. View our [Privacy Policy]( [Unsubscribe](newsletter=vf) Sent from Condé Nast, 1 World Trade Center, New York, NY 10007 Copyright © 2023 Condé Nast