No excuses. He caused Fanone to have a heart attack by tasering him. But Trump put him up to it. He cheered it when it was happening. And now he’s dangling pardons for the people like him, who committed assault.
Fanone was on CNN today and said that the RNC has become the political arm of the Proud Boys, the OathKeepers and the Three percenters. He has a point. They seem to think what Danny Rodriguez did to him that day was normal political discourse.
And they seem to be settling on this as their excuse for the violence:
Notice that Schlapp is nodding and agreeing throughout. He’s the head of the American Conservative Union, which holds the CPAC Convention every year. This is where it’s going.