White House Bashes ‘Absolutely Absurd’ Criminal Charges Against Gun Couple

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.


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Do I smell a convention invite? Please let it happen.

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McEnany did not indicate whether Trump would get involved

As if she needed to. He already is!

She’s back to batting .000.

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Because waving weapons at other people is how we should all be conducting ourselves. Sigh.

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Trump believes the charges are “an extreme abuse of power,” the press secretary told reporters.

Trump is concerned about abuse of power??? WTF, not a day goes by he does not turn our country more and more into a 3 ringed circus.

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Never argue with an idiot. They will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience.

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Mark Twain?

Maybe they were only loaded with rubber bullets.

Attila: “I come in peace.”

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Oh, are we having a discussion on extreme abuses of power now?? Super, let us proceed!

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He is one of the most misquoted people who ever lived. But it seems he really said this.

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Had this been a wealthy Black couple standing on their porch, they would not have been charged. They would be dead.

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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?

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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.

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Dear Donnie:

Stay the f_ck out of pending legal matters. At long last, have you no sense of decency?

America

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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.

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Their charges pale in comparison to what you’ll be facing at the TrumpPandemicTribunals, Donnie.

c’mon! I mean, can’t you see that they are white people? Who prosecutes white people for waving guns at black people walking by???

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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.

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These protesters broke a wrought iron gate open! With their bare hands!

Allegedly.

In other words, Trump the Liar is defending a couple of other liars.