Former Mississippi governor Phil Bryant discloses his text messages regarding welfare scandal

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Former Mississippi governor Phil Bryant has taken the gloves off.

In a video posted on Thursday, Bryant described himself as a “whistleblower” who reported “wrongdoing of others” to the responsible state agency. He also released all of his text messages, abandoning any claim of “executive privilege” in order to keep them hidden.

Bryant says the text messages will reveal that he was a “busy man,” doing his best to run the government of…