My thought when I heard about it was that it was staged by the sick f*** Democrats! Gen. Kellys response in Presser was profound.
Oh, and tell that congresswomen that she is culturally appropriating the cowboy hat!
The widow was probably party to the set-up. If she harbored resentment about her husband being sent to that hell-hole in Africa and being killed there I can actually understand her wanting to hit back though it would not likely have been a calculated thing. The rep and she are friends so she called the rep who might have said hey, let’s put him in his place.