2026-09-28T09:00:29.272Z / 美国有线电视新闻网（CNN）
博·弗伦奇是得克萨斯州权势最显赫的全州公职之一的共和党候选人，他因一条针对德克萨斯大学橄榄球比赛观众的种族主义帖子遭到两党批评。
如今，CNN“档案”栏目的调查 uncovered了他六年来已被删除的多篇旧帖，其中弗伦奇多次主张对包括前总统巴拉克·奥巴马在内的政治对手实施公开处决。
弗伦奇正在竞选得克萨斯铁路委员会主席，该委员会负责监管该州实力雄厚的石油和天然气行业。他此前的帖子将该校的南亚学生描述为“取代美国人的外国人”。
尽管弗伦奇为这条帖子辩护，但共和党知名人士已与他的竞选划清界限。长期担任共和党策略师、曾是乔治·W·布什顾问的卡尔·罗夫表示，他会为该选区的民主党候选人投票，而得克萨斯州参议员约翰·科宁则称不会为弗伦奇投票。
弗伦奇将批评他的人斥为“不够保守”，且未回应CNN的置评请求。这一事件是弗伦奇在移民、种族和宗教问题上煽动性言论引发的最新争议。今年早些时候，他呼吁驱逐1亿人，并暗示共和党应宣扬伊斯兰恐惧症。
CNN“档案”栏目复盘发现，至少有五条2025年2月发布的已删除社交媒体帖子，当时弗伦奇使用了当前账号的旧用户名，提及公开处决、绞架或绞刑。目前尚不清楚这些帖子是弗伦奇本人删除，还是因违反推特此前禁止仇恨言论的规则而被移除。
CNN还发现了弗伦奇呼吁处决他人的其他帖子。这些帖子来自一个已被停用的账号，是弗伦奇2016年和2018年两次竞选得克萨斯州议会失败期间使用的。
2020年5月，就在共和党人就调查特朗普团队与俄罗斯的关联发起反弹之际，弗伦奇公开呼吁对他所称的“奥巴马阴谋者”处以死刑，呼吁将死刑作为对奥巴马本人——他称其为“前总统”——和其他人的惩罚，并多次使用话题标签#吊死他们。
当时特朗普政府司法部刚提出撤回对迈克尔·弗林的起诉，弗林是特朗普前国家安全顾问，曾就2017年特朗普就职前几周与俄罗斯大使的谈话向联邦调查局撒谎。特朗普借此指责奥巴马政府时期的官员犯有“叛国罪”。时任众议院情报委员会主席、众议员亚当·希夫领导的委员会也公布了其调查的数十份 transcripts。
“叛国罪的刑罚过去是死刑，哪怕是前总统也不例外。#吊死他们，”弗伦奇在一条似乎将俄罗斯调查归咎于奥巴马的帖子下回复道。
“是时候对这些叛国杂种重拳出击，以完全的正义惩罚他们。#吊死他们，”他在回应一条询问希夫是否已被捕的推文时写道。
这些新爆料曝光之际，得克萨斯州部分最具影响力的共和党官员仍在支持弗伦奇。寻求连任的州长格雷格·雅培以及共和党联邦参议员候选人、州检察长肯·帕克斯顿，尽管爆出最新争议，仍维持对弗伦奇的背书。
弗伦奇在5月的 runoff选举中击败现任铁路委员会委员、共和党人吉姆·赖特，晋级大选，尽管赖特得到了雅培、副州长丹·帕特里克和众议院议长达斯汀·伯罗斯的支持。尽管弗伦奇过去的反穆斯林言论遭到帕特里克等全州官员谴责，但他还是赢得了选举。
弗伦奇如今将与民主党州众议员乔恩·罗森塔尔竞争得克萨斯铁路委员会三个席位之一的六年任期。该机构虽名为铁路委员会，但早已不再监管铁路业务。它对该州石油和天然气行业拥有广泛管辖权，包括钻井、管道和天然气公用事业。
雅培随后背书弗伦奇作为共和党11月大选的候选人。帕克斯顿在其联邦参议员竞选民主党对手詹姆斯·塔拉里科要求他谴责弗伦奇后写道，“我谴责一切形式的种族主义”，但并未点名弗伦奇，也未直接提及那条帖子。雅培同样称弗伦奇的帖子“不是我的立场”。
然而，曾在5月欣然接受弗伦奇背书的雅培和帕克斯顿，均未表示不会支持弗伦奇。雅培、帕克斯顿以及得克萨斯州共和党均未回应CNN就弗伦奇处决言论置评的请求。
2025年2月的最新推文多次呼吁处决他所称被DOGE曝光的政府官员。DOGE是埃隆·马斯克发起的项目，旨在向联邦各机构派驻工作人员，以削减开支，包括终止各类项目和义务。
弗伦奇当时写道，DOGE本应是“Department of Government Efficiency（政府效率部）”的缩写，但他主张应将其解读为“Dangle Officials Gallows Expeditiously（迅速将官员送上绞架）”，并在其他推文中称，他希望对被DOGE曝光的政府官员“不止游街示众”，而是“公开处决”。
弗伦奇当时担任塔兰特县共和党地方主席，正在推动效仿马斯克DOGE项目的得克萨斯州独立行动。
另一篇帖子呼吁处决现已成为联邦参议员的希夫，指控其犯有叛国罪。弗伦奇还回应了一条将1月6日抗议者自杀归咎于联邦法官和检方的帖子，写道，“在这种情况下，被绞死的是不该死的人。”
目前尚不清楚弗伦奇2025年2月的这些帖子是他本人删除，还是因违反推特服务条款被移除，但当时弗伦奇账号下的其他帖子在搜索其推特账号时已无法显示。
这些帖子是以弗伦奇当前X平台用户名的旧版本发布的。CNN“档案”栏目查阅的存档账号记录显示，新旧用户名共享相同的底层数字用户ID，这是一个更改X平台用户名时不会改变的识别账号编号。
弗伦奇利用2025年DOGE项目的推出，多次呼吁处决政府官员。
2025年2月的一次互动中，一名X平台用户担忧马斯克对“联邦政府”的“破坏”可能无法挽回，另一名用户回复道，“呃，没错，这就是目的。”弗伦奇直接回复该评论，进一步升级言论，写道，“当我们实施公开处决时，这才会真正成为目的。”
2025年2月另一条关于DOGE的推文中，弗伦奇写道，“我想要的不止游街示众。我想要公开处决。”
在一条“晚安，所有希望看到亚当·希夫入狱的人”的帖子发布六分钟后，弗伦奇似乎认为这一惩罚不够严厉。
“不。我希望看到叛国者被公开处决，”他写道，拒绝将监禁作为对这位参议员的足够惩罚。
‘I want public executions’: Texas GOP candidate’s extreme posts extend beyond racism
2026-09-28T09:00:29.272Z / CNN
Bo French, the Republican nominee for one of Texas’ most powerful statewide offices, is facing bipartisan criticism over a racist post about the crowd at a University of Texas football game.
Now, a CNN KFile investigation has uncovered since-removed posts from the past six years in which French repeatedly advocated having public executions for political opponents, including former President Barack Obama.
French is running to lead the Texas Railroad Commission, which regulates the state’s powerful oil and gas industry. His earlier post portrayed South Asian students at the university as “foreigners” displacing Americans.
Although French has stood by that post, prominent Republicans have distanced themselves from his candidacy. Longtime GOP strategist and former George W. Bush adviser Karl Rove said he would vote for the Democrat in the race, while Texas Sen. John Cornyn said he would not vote for French.
French has dismissed his detractors as “less conservative” and he did not respond to CNN’s inquiries. The episode is the latest controversy involving French’s provocative rhetoric on immigration, race and religion. Earlier this year, he called for deporting 100 million people and suggested that Republicans embrace Islamophobia.
A CNN KFile review uncovered at least five removed social media posts from February 2025 in which French, using a previous username from his current account, invoked public executions, gallows or hanging. It’s unclear if the posts were deleted by French himself or removed because they violated Twitter’s prior rules against hate speech.
CNN also uncovered other posts in which French called for executions. Those posts came from a since-suspended account that French used during his two failed runs for the Texas statehouse in 2016 and 2018.
In May 2020, amid Republican backlash to the investigation into the Trump campaign’s ties to Russia, French publicly called for the death penalty for people he described as “Obama conspirators,” invoked death as punishment for Obama himself, referring to the “former president,” and others while he repeatedly used the hashtag #HangEmHigh.
The Trump Justice Department had just moved to drop its prosecution of Michael Flynn, Trump’s former national security adviser who lied to the FBI about conversations he had with the Russian ambassador in the weeks before Trump took office in 2017. Trump used this to accuse former Obama-era officials of “treason.” The House Intelligence Committee, led by then-Rep. Adam Schiff, had also released dozens of transcripts from its investigation.
“The penalty for treason used to be death. Even for a former president. #HangEmHigh,” wrote French, replying to a post seemingly blaming Obama for the Russian investigation.
“It’s time we drop the hammer on these treasonous bastards and punish them with the full measure of justice. #HangEmHigh,” he wrote in response to a tweet asking if Schiff had been arrested.
The new revelations come as some of the most powerful Republican officials in Texas continue to back French. Gov. Greg Abbott, who is running for re-election, and Attorney General Ken Paxton, the Republican nominee for Senate, have both maintained their endorsements of French despite the latest controversy.
French reached the general election after ousting incumbent Railroad Commissioner, Republican Jim Wright in May’s runoff election, despite Wright being backed by Abbott, Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick and House Speaker Dustin Burrows. French also won despite his past anti-Muslim rhetoric being condemned by statewide officials like Patrick.
French now faces Democratic state Rep. Jon Rosenthal for a six-year term on the three-member Texas Railroad Commission. The agency no longer regulates railroads despite its name. It has broad authority over the state’s oil and gas industry, including drilling, pipelines and natural gas utilities.
Abbott subsequently endorsed French as the party’s standard bearer for November’s general election. Paxton, after his Democratic opponent for Senate James Talarico challenged him to condemn French, wrote, “I condemn racism in all its forms,” but did not name French or directly address the post. Abbott likewise called French’s post “not my message.”
Yet neither Abbott nor Paxton, who proudly accepted French’s endorsement in May, have said they won’t support French. Abbott and Paxton did not respond to CNN’s inquiries on French’s execution comments, nor did the Texas Republican Party.
The more recent February 2025 tweets include multiple calls for executions against government officials he said were exposed by DOGE – the Elon Musk initiative that embedded staffers throughout federal agencies to look for ways to curtail spending, including by ending various programs and obligations.
French wrote at the time that DOGE, which was an acronym of Department of Government Efficiency, should actually stand for “Dangle Officials Gallows Expeditiously,” adding in other tweets he wanted “more than perp walks” and “public executions,” for government officials he said were exposed by DOGE.
French at the time was chairman of the local Tarrant County Republican Party and was promoting a separate Texas effort modeled on Musk’s DOGE.
Another post called for executing Schiff, now a US senator, for alleged treason. French also responded to a post blaming a federal judge and prosecution for the suicide of a Jan. 6 defendant by writing, “In this scenario, the wrong person was hung.”
It’s unclear if French deleted the posts from February 2025 of if they were removed for violating Twitter’s terms of service, but other posts from French’s account at the time no longer populate when you search in his Twitter account.
Those posts were published under an earlier version of French’s current X username. Archived account records reviewed by CNN’s KFile show that the old and current handles share the same underlying numeric user ID, an identifying account number that does not change when you change your X handle.
French used DOGE’s launch in 2025 to repeatedly call for executions of government officials.
In one exchange from February 2025, when one X user worried about Musk’s “damage” “to the federal government” might not be reversible, another replied, “Uhh yea, that’s the point.” French, responding directly to that comment, escalated it further, writing, “It will really be the point when we have the public executions.”
In yet another tweet from February 2025 on DOGE, French wrote, “I want more than perp walks. I want public executions.”
Six minutes after a post that read, “Good night to everyone who wants to see Adam Schiff in prison,” French seemingly rejected that punishment as not harsh enough.
“No. I want to see public executions for traitors,” he wrote, rejecting imprisonment as sufficient punishment for the senator.
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