Texas Republican: ‘I don’t have an ounce of sympathy for Lindsay Clancy’

Rep. Brandon Gill (R-Texas) said he has no sympathy for Lindsay Clancy after her murder trial ended in a mistrial , rejecting the defense’s argument that severe mental illness left her not criminally responsible for killing her three children.

“I don’t have an ounce of sympathy for Lindsay Clancy,” Gill said Friday on Fox News’s “The Will Cain Show.”

“I have an enormous amount of sympathy for the three little innocent kids who were slaughtered,” he said earlier.

Gill went on to push back against the central argument of Clancy’s defense: that she was experiencing postpartum psychosis when she strangled her three children — Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, 8 months — at the family’s Massachusetts home in 2023.

“You don’t get licensed to murder your children or anybody else just because you have mental health problems,” Gill said. “We’ve gotten in a habit of medicalizing evil.”

Trial Judge William Sullivan declared a mistrial when jurors remained deadlocked for seven days without being able to reach a unanimous verdict on whether Clancy was criminally responsible for the killings.

A last-minute attempt was made by Clancy’s attorneys to remove the lone holdout juror, whom they accused of refusing to properly apply the legal standard of reasonable doubt. Sullivan declined to remove the juror.

The legal battle has dominated national headlines, with even President Trump weighing in to respond to news of the mistrial.

“It’s a shame. It’s a horrible tragedy,” Trump said when asked about the case during an executive order signing ceremony in the Oval Office. “She did a horrible, horrible thing.”

“I guess they’re going to go through another trial. It’s too bad,” he concluded.