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Rep. Luna has filed charges after this horrific assault outside of the Capital yesterday. ⚠️ Video of the attack 🙄 (Original Post) underpants Thursday OP
The drama! Loryn Thursday #1
Luna is loonie and all those years of accusing the left of being snowflakes was just MAGAts projecting. OGBuzz Thursday #6
God, what a snowflake RussBLib Thursday #2
I hope she is OK. That was horrific. AloeVera Thursday #3
Whew! underpants Thursday #7
Yeah, a "pinko" communist! AloeVera Thursday #10
The ease with which they lie. Chasstev365 Thursday #4
Oh, please. A slight "tap" on the arm? If the DC AG brings charges on that.... hlthe2b Thursday #5
Um.... underpants Thursday #8
Haha MustLoveBeagles Thursday #16
Track record of the lunatics from the DOJ and acting AG and on down................................... Lovie777 Thursday #9
Does anyone have a better angle? Baitball Blogger Thursday #11
She just touched her elbow in a "I'm talking to you" kind of way underpants Thursday #15
Someone should give Luna a Hollywood contract so that she would go allegorical oracle Thursday #12
That wouldn't qualify as an "assault"... appmanga Thursday #13
Good points. 👍 underpants Thursday #14
So, MustLoveBeagles Thursday #17
Luna malaise Thursday #23
Luna-tic. NT Raine1967 Thursday #18
It's amazing she came out of this alive!! Ars Longa Thursday #19
It was literally "touch and go" there for a while underpants Thursday #22
Charges? Boo1 Thursday #20
She narrowly escaped an @ssassination attempt! Happens to me every day LeftinOH Thursday #21
OMG - it will take forever for her to recover from that. She should resign her seat in Congress. Vinca Thursday #24

OGBuzz

(768 posts)
6. Luna is loonie and all those years of accusing the left of being snowflakes was just MAGAts projecting.
Thu Jun 4, 2026, 09:37 AM
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AloeVera

(4,539 posts)
10. Yeah, a "pinko" communist!
Thu Jun 4, 2026, 10:15 AM
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The perpetrator is Medea Benjamin from "Code PINK"!

I rest my case.

Chasstev365

(8,280 posts)
4. The ease with which they lie.
Thu Jun 4, 2026, 09:36 AM
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Goebells, Cohen, and Trump taught them well;

It's not the factual reality of what the video CLEARLY shows; just keep repeating the lie.

hlthe2b

(114,922 posts)
5. Oh, please. A slight "tap" on the arm? If the DC AG brings charges on that....
Thu Jun 4, 2026, 09:36 AM
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Is that still the drunken former Fox moronic Pirro? Well, no matter, that is ridiculous and about like the Subway sandwich "assault." I'd expect the same outcome.

Lovie777

(24,086 posts)
9. Track record of the lunatics from the DOJ and acting AG and on down...................................
Thu Jun 4, 2026, 09:44 AM
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yes, they may charge the person for assault.

Baitball Blogger

(52,784 posts)
11. Does anyone have a better angle?
Thu Jun 4, 2026, 10:35 AM
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This angle doesn't show much of anything. Luna could have grazed the back of the woman's hand, which was more in a normal swing motion from walking, than gearing up for a smack.

underpants

(197,528 posts)
15. She just touched her elbow in a "I'm talking to you" kind of way
Thu Jun 4, 2026, 11:43 AM
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Certainly not aggressive like “HEY! I’M TALKING TO YOU!!!”

Post 13 below has some good insight on this. It could technically be battery but not assault.

appmanga

(1,556 posts)
13. That wouldn't qualify as an "assault"...
Thu Jun 4, 2026, 11:32 AM
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...and an assault doesn't require physical contact; that would be "battery". This person not only didn't threaten anyone, or even raise her voice, but the contact she made could be determined to be accidental, or just the common and innocuous way of getting someone's attention. Paulina Lunatic is doing what's become common among right-wing simps: they use the law to try to intimidate. I would think another "no true bill" is in store for the D.C. U.S. prosecutor's office should they entertain this nonsense.

LeftinOH

(5,683 posts)
21. She narrowly escaped an @ssassination attempt! Happens to me every day
Thu Jun 4, 2026, 01:18 PM
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on the bus; it's inevitable that people lightly brush against me ..which is the same thing as being brutally assaulted. Apparently.

Vinca

(54,471 posts)
24. OMG - it will take forever for her to recover from that. She should resign her seat in Congress.
Thu Jun 4, 2026, 02:43 PM
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