Timothy Birdnow

Here's a doozie; a crazed veteran assaulted a boy for not removing his hat during the playing of the national anthem and his lawyer blamed...wait for it...Donald Trump!

From Pluralist /the assailant - Curt Brockway - is a vet with traumatic brain injury. He attacked the youth because, as his lawyer tried to claim, Donald Trump, the Commander in Chief, has made statements indicating to the Montana resident that people who disrespect the flag or the national anthem should be punished.

They have officially accused Trump of every crime now, I suspect.

So, a guy who should have been kept out of the general public is set loose, attacks a thirteen year old boy, and it's Trump's fault because the guy was so crazy he thought the President was calling for him to beat the kid up. Is this argument remotely rational to anyone? Was Jody Foster responsible for the attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan? John Hinckley claimed she was. Was clown college responsible for John Wayne Gacy murdering all those teenage boys? Is anyone blaming Elizabeth Warren or Bernie Sanders for the Dayton Ohio shootings?

The judge in this case should order this line of defense be disallowed. It's defamatory, it's stupid, and most of all it's ridiculous.

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