{"id":54891,"date":"2022-09-25T11:47:35","date_gmt":"2022-09-25T18:47:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=54891"},"modified":"2022-09-25T11:47:35","modified_gmt":"2022-09-25T18:47:35","slug":"gop-senator-on-fox-news-backs-assault-against-72-year-old-volunteer-abortion-clinic-escort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=54891","title":{"rendered":"GOP Senator on Fox News Backs Assault Against 72 Year Old Volunteer Abortion Clinic Escort"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Republican Party of Donald Trump has spent months (years, actually) normalizing acts of violence in pursuit of their extremist, authoritarian quest for power. From the very beginning of Trump&#8217;s political adventurism he explicitly advocated violence. He even <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=30802\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">urged his supporters to <em>&#8220;knock the crap out of&#8221;<\/em> protesters<\/a><\/strong> at his rallies and promised to pay their legal fees.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=TITLE%0D&#038;url=https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=54000\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to Tweet this article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/FoxNews\/foxnews-incite-terrorism.jpg\" alt=\"Fox News, Terrorism\" width=\"550\" height=\"296\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-30695\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On Sunday morning the Fox News Senior Trump-fluffer, Maria Bartiromo, invited Republican Senator Mike Lee of Utah to discuss the GOP&#8217;s plans should they win a majority in the 2022 midterm election. Bartiromo wanted to know whether they would conduct an inquisition of the Justice Department and the FBI on behalf of Trump following the search of his Mar-a-Lago bunker where he had illegally hoarded highly sensitive national security materials.<\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=54799\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Trump Returns to the Scene of the Crime at Mar-a-Lago \u2013 and Freaks Out About the FBI\u2019s Shoes<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Lee immediately steered the conversation to what he regarded as <em>&#8220;overreach&#8221;<\/em> on the part of law enforcement. This despite their having found hundreds of classified documents that <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=54482\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Trump repeatedly lied about having<\/a><\/strong>. However, Lee&#8217;s examples of this alleged overreach wound up serving as support for the perpetrator of a vicious assault on a senior citizen&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Lee:<\/strong> In the last few days we&#8217;ve seen some pretty glaring examples of what appear to be instances of overreach [&#8230;] You\u2019ve got a Catholic father of seven who formed a group designed to encourage young men to be faithful to their commitments, who was arrested in front of his seven children.<br \/>\n<strong>Bartiromo:<\/strong> Crap!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Lee: In the last few days we&#39;ve seen some pretty glaring examples of what appear to be instances of overreach. You\u2019ve got a catholic father of seven  who was arrested in front of his seven children <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/KsaH5CYIk9\">pic.twitter.com\/KsaH5CYIk9<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Acyn (@Acyn) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Acyn\/status\/1574042815071457280?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 25, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Lee repeated that he regards this as an <em>&#8220;instance of overreach&#8221;<\/em> that Republicans will be looking into. Bartiromo added that another line of inquiry should include the Justice Department and the FBI&#8217;s alleged <em>&#8220;deep hatred for Donald Trump and the way they treat the former president.&#8221;<\/em> In the view of Lee and Bartiromo, treating a suspect of serious federal crimes, including espionage, like a suspect is a akin to deep hatred.<\/p>\n<p>What Lee failed to mention was that the Catholic father who was arrested was charged with assaulting a 72 year old volunteer reproductive healthcare clinic who was escorting patients through a gauntlet of anti-choice activists. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.abc27.com\/pennsylvania\/pennsylvania-man-charged-with-assaulting-elderly-planned-parenthood-volunteer\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">According to the local ABC news affiliate<\/a><\/strong>&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;A Pennsylvania man has been charged for allegedly assaulting an elderly Planned Parenthood volunteer. [&#8230;] According to the U.S. Attorney\u2019s office, Mark Houck is alleged to have twice assaulted a 72-year-old man because he was a volunteer reproductive health care clinic escort.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The charges stem from two separate incidents [&#8230;] In the first incident, the man was attempting to escort two patients exiting the clinic when Houck forcefully shoved him to the ground. In the second incident, Houck allegedly confronted the man and shoved him to the ground in front of the Planned Parenthood center, causing injuries that required medical attention.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That is the sort of behavior that Sen. Lee is defending. And Bartiromo is fully on board with it. The assailant, according his <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/catholicspeakers.com\/profiles\/mark-houck\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">page<\/a><\/strong> on a Catholic speakers website, <em>&#8220;is the Co-Founder\/President of The King\u2019s Men,&#8221;<\/em>  a non-profit organization <em>&#8220;seeking to unite and build up men as true leaders [&#8230;] with the goal of eliminating pornography.&#8221;<\/em> The page also says Houck is a <em>&#8220;chastity educator!&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Soon Houck may be able to add convicted felon to his resume. And Fox News can continue its mission to promote violence against their political opponents, up to and including insurrection. It&#8217;s a strategy that has become even more pronounced as Trump sinks ever deeper into legal peril. It&#8217;s a path that they appear to hope leads to civil war.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<strong>RELATED STORIES:<\/strong><\/p>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=54884\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fox News is AGHAST that Hillary Clinton Accurately Compared Trump\u2019s Rallies to Nazi Rallies<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=54817\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">WHUT? 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From the very beginning of Trump&#8217;s political adventurism he explicitly advocated violence. He even urged his supporters to &#8220;knock the crap out of&#8221; protesters at his rallies and promised to pay [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30695,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1475,1,684,1200,8,16],"tags":[1439,554,33,1112,1415],"class_list":["post-54891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","category-general","category-media-bias","category-politics","category-propaganda","category-wankery","tag-abortion","tag-donald-trump","tag-fox-news","tag-maria-bartiromo","tag-mike-lee"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/..\/Pix\/Trump\/foxnews-incite-terrorism.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-ehl","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":38347,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=38347","url_meta":{"origin":54891,"position":0},"title":"Trump Threatens Americans Who Disagree with Him in Slobbering Fox News Interview","author":"Mark NC","date":"7\/1\/2018","format":false,"excerpt":"On Sunday morning Fox News aired another in its long-running series, \"Everybody Loves Donald,\" wherein the the lead character, Donald Trump, is slathered in a tsunami of wet kisses by a hopelessly infatuated State TV hostess. 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