It's really important to note that while the Arlington assault...
Josh Marshall@joshtpm
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Aug 29, 2024
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It's really important to note that while the Arlington assault story has gotten some limited pick up in the elite press coverage of the incident in the Times, Post, Journal etc has been limited and servile at best. Assaulting a federal employee in the performance of their ...
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2/ duties is a felony (18 USC 111). Who were the two Trump staffers who assaulted this woman? That's a totally knowable detail. What is the justification for two high level Trump campaign officials claiming he is mentally ill and should be fired from her job? Where are the ...
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3/ think pieces noting how this fits into a pattern of the Trump political operation routinely breaking the law and resorting to violence to do so? Why did the Speaker of the House directly intervene to overrule Arlington National Cemetery staff trying to enforce the ...
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4/ law which bars campaign events at the cemetery? Most of these facts are knowledge. There are lots of witnesses to what happened. It's not necessary for a federal employee to press charged in a case like this for them to be brought. Indeed, it puts far too much on that ...
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5/ employee who is clearly and quite reasonably worried that the President violent supporters will retaliate against her at least as they did with the two poll workers in Georgia and perhaps with more violence. Again, the reporting on this, while not-non-existent is another ...
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6/ example of press afraid to confront Trump and his underlings just as the higher level people at Arlington seem to have been afraid to, leaving to this cemetery employee to contend verbally and physical with Trump higher ups who have a record of getting violent.
