Beau French called for the execution of Donald Trump's political foes.
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The Bulwark DailySep 29, 2026
Multiple outlets reporting on a CNN KFile investigation say Bo French, the Texas Railroad Commission Republican nominee (the post spells his name "Beau"), repeatedly called for public executions or the death penalty for political opponents, including Obama and Adam Schiff in 2020 posts tied to Trump's Russia investigation.
What was said
… demolish the Deep State, and I think this ties together what you're talking about, the failure of the weaponization project, the fact that, you know, the Mega media sphere doesn't like, doesn't have a good story to even tell their own people, and it's like Sam and Will did a thing yesterday on Beau French, this guy running for railroad commissioners, racist guy in Texas, and how many times in the past he called for, like, the execution of Trump's foes. Like, this was all very common language in this world. Like, Trump was going to get in, and they were going to jail all the people that had come for them, that had supposedly weaponized the government and the Biden administration, and they have bupkiss. …
The Bulwark Daily · · from the transcriptPost →What we found
Supports. CNN KFile found that French called for the death penalty for "Obama conspirators" and for public executions of political opponents, in posts removed from social media, and reports say the posts continued into February 2025.[3][4][5][6][7]
Supports. In a 2020 post about the Trump-era Justice Department dropping its Flynn case, French wrote "It's time we drop the hammer on these treasonous b-----ds" about Adam Schiff and others, and the Houston Chronicle reports he suggested the death of former President Obama.[3][5][8]
Context. The 2020 targets (Obama and Schiff) were figures in the Russia investigation of Trump's campaign, which supports reading "Trump's foes" as his political opponents, though sources do not use that exact phrase.[5][8]
Context. The Snopes fact-check concerns a separate claim that French wanted to deport Native Americans and does not address execution calls.[1]
Context. The sources spell the candidate's name "Bo French"; the claim's "Beau French" matches the post's spelling and refers to the same person.[2][9]
Sources
9 sources: 2 fact-checkers, 1 tier 3, 6 not rated
- 1Texas GOP candidate Bo French called for deporting several Native Americanssnopes.com · fact-checker · cited for: context
- 22026 Texas Railroad Commissioner Election Resultsapnews.com · fact-checker · cited for: context
- 3GOP candidate repeatedly demands lynching of Obama — then rushes to delete postsrawstory.com · tier 3 · cited for: supports
- 4Texas GOP Candidate Has Long History of Calling for ...yahoo.com · not rated · cited for: supports
- 5Texas GOP Candidate Has Long History of Calling for Public ...newrepublic.com · not rated · cited for: supports, context
- 6Texas GOP candidate Bo French has a history of calling for ...edition.cnn.com · not rated · cited for: supports
- 7Report: Texas GOP candidate called for public executions in past social ...ms.now · not rated · cited for: supports
- 8Texas GOP candidate Bo French once suggested ...houstonchronicle.com · not rated · cited for: supports, context
- 9Bo French - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org · not rated · cited for: context
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