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Republican says the Democrat he alleges assaulted him at the state Capitol needs ‘therapy,’ anger management

In a four-minute video posted to his personal Facebook account last week, Utah Sen. Daniel Thatcher contends that a Democratic colleague he has accused of assault needs “anger management."

Thatcher, R-West Valley City, told The Salt Lake Tribune earlier this month that he and House Minority Leader Brian King, D-Salt Lake City, got into a physical altercation in October in a hallway in the Senate building at the Utah Capitol.

He followed up those claims with the video on Wednesday to correct “some grossly inaccurate information” he says King has spread about the incident.

“What [King] got right is that he did lay hands on me on Oct.