Editorial: Bill Essayli should spend less time on social media

Government officials should probably spend less time posting their hot takes on social media.

Former California Assemblyman Bill Essayli certainly made a name for himself as a rhetorical bomb-thrower in the California Legislature.

Now First Assistant United States Attorney for the Central District of California under the Trump administration, Essayli drew national attention over the weekend for an ill-conceived X post of his in response to the shooting of ICU nurse Alex Pretti in Minneapolis, Minnesota.