Republicans are Very Confident in Their Health Care Bill
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Donald Trump becoming the Republican nominee for president is a mystery that can never be explained:
The Republican candidate for Montana’s congressional seat slammed a Guardian reporter to the floor on the eve of the state’s special election, breaking his glasses and shouting, “Get the hell out of here.”
Ben Jacobs, a Guardian political reporter, was asking Greg Gianforte, a tech millionaire running for the seat vacated by Ryan Zinke, about the Republican healthcare plan when the candidate allegedly “body-slammed” the reporter.
“He took me to the ground,” Jacobs said by phone from the back of an ambulance. “This is the strangest thing that has ever happened to me in reporting on politics.”
Jacobs subsequently reported the incident to the police. Gianforte’s campaign did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
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Jacobs’s account was partially confirmed by BuzzFeed News reporter Alexis Levinson, who wrote on Twitter that she had been in an adjacent room during the incident.
“This happened behind a half closed door, so I didn’t see it all, but here’s what it looked like from the outside – Ben walked into a room where a local tv crew was set up for an interview with Gianforte. All of a sudden I heard a giant crash and saw Ben’s feet fly in the air as he hit the floor. Heard very angry yelling (as did all the volunteers in the room) – sounded like Gianforte…”
Did Gianforte release a statement that blatantly contradicts the audio recording and implies that the assault was justified because it was a LIBERAL reporter? I think you can guess the answer! Weigel has more.
In re: the Iraq War, Daniel Davies famously observed that “good ideas do not need lots of lies told about them in order to gain public acceptance.” One corollary would be that good ideas do not compel you to physically assault reporters who ask you questions about them.