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

OGBuzz

(760 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
22 hrs ago

AloeVera

(4,491 posts)
10. Yeah, a "pinko" communist!
Thu Jun 4, 2026, 10:15 AM
21 hrs ago

The perpetrator is Medea Benjamin from "Code PINK"!

I rest my case.

Chasstev365

(8,245 posts)
4. The ease with which they lie.
Thu Jun 4, 2026, 09:36 AM
22 hrs ago

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

(114,883 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
22 hrs ago

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

(23,992 posts)
9. Track record of the lunatics from the DOJ and acting AG and on down...................................
Thu Jun 4, 2026, 09:44 AM
22 hrs ago

yes, they may charge the person for assault.

Baitball Blogger

(52,777 posts)
11. Does anyone have a better angle?
Thu Jun 4, 2026, 10:35 AM
21 hrs ago

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

(197,434 posts)
15. She just touched her elbow in a "I'm talking to you" kind of way
Thu Jun 4, 2026, 11:43 AM
20 hrs ago

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

(1,554 posts)
13. That wouldn't qualify as an "assault"...
Thu Jun 4, 2026, 11:32 AM
20 hrs ago

...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
18 hrs ago

on the bus; it's inevitable that people lightly brush against me ..which is the same thing as being brutally assaulted. Apparently.

Vinca

(54,437 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
17 hrs ago
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