White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany on Tuesday attacked St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner’s decision to file criminal charges against Mark and Patricia McCloskey for pointing their firearms at Black Lives Matter protesters in their neighborhood.
Reverse just one of the facts in this case to date: make the couple waving the guns not “white”. Does anybody think this White House would have made this statement?
Sure. Hop into bed with the guy who sued his father over a birthday card and smashed the synagogue’s Rosh Hashanah honey hives. I wonder if Kaylie would be copacetic with automatic weapons pointed at her as she walked the street.
You often hear about a defendant’s inability to get a fair trial because a prominent person or other entity has said or done something that will allegedly make it difficult or impossible to get a fair trial before a jury, even with a change of venue. But you almost never hear of a similar quandary wherein a prosecutor cannot pursue justice because a jury pool is tainted and biased against their effort, due to outside influence and public comments. WTF is Trump doing weighing on this before it’s even gone to trial? It’s extremely inappropriate.
No. Let’s all realize that Mark Twain didn’t say all that stuff he’s quoted saying in GoodReads and BrainyQuotes. They and similar sites are absolutely crammed with misattributed stuff.