If I was conspiratorial… it would almost seem that the DA working for the Zeldin campaign undercharged this to a non bail eligible offense so as to have a talking point on the campaign trail.
Chances are Garland would be hearing of the incident for the first time or “has no knowledge” of the attempted assault on a sitting Us Congressman if one were to ask him.
This is a dynamic story with events happening in real time, that we are responding to. You appear frustrated and cranky, probably because you’re not really following the story, don’t really care about the specifics, and just want to needle people. Anything beyond that—you seem to lose interest.
Hey, speaking of ignorance, here’s Zeldin blaming bail ■■■■■■■■ and Hochul for the guy being let go:
“I’ve long been calling for a repeal of cashless bail,” he said. “When Kathy Hochul was asked about this a few months ago, she said there’s no data to support it. Well, you need data, look at the press clippings. I mean, you can look at what happened last night. You can attack — you can try to stab a member of Congress, which is bad enough if you’re trying to stab anybody — and you can instantly be released on cashless bail.”
But that’s ■■■■■■■■■ This incident has nothing to do with bail. It wasn’t a bailable offense.
So Zeldin is falsely blaming the release of the man on bail reform and Kathy Hochul, when actually., the man was released because the DA, Sandra Doorley—WHO IS ON ZELDIN’S CAMPAIGN—chose to charge him with a non-bail eligible offense.
You realize that’s incredibly dishonest and crazy, right? It’s okay, though: you can just pivot to something like How does it feel libs or Libs getting a taste of their own medicine, even if it doesn’t really apply here.
And let’s ignore reality and pretend that if AOC was campaigning like this, and something similar happened, and then the DA—who, hey, just happened to be a co-chair of AOC’s political campaign—made some weird decision about it that just—hey, coincidentally—fed directly into her campaign’s talking points, and then AOC went out and lied about it, the right wouldn’t build a bustling metropolis of half-assed conspiracy theories out of it within 2 hours.