I know it’s not currently the law, but I think if you’re a politician, you should legally have to maintain a higher standard for things like this.
Slapping a phone out of a reporter’s hand? Maybe if it was a private citizen being targeted, or I could even excuse a politician doing that if he was protecting his family.
But just the politician alone in a parking lot, and the reporter isn’t even getting in his face? Unacceptable. Surely there’s some law that he technically broke, like assault or something. Even if you wouldn’t charge a normal citizen, a politician should have a higher standard.
I say no excuses for politicians doing things like that. He should at least be arrested and booked into jail.
Well, they mostly used to be. But now Trump has showed them that they can act like the spoiled greedy children that they are with impunity, and they are making the most out of that situation.
The military have a UCMJ. The politicians could have something, in theory, but who can enforce it? Would content/strictness need vary based on “rank,” so to speak?
I know it’s not currently the law, but I think if you’re a politician, you should legally have to maintain a higher standard for things like this.
Slapping a phone out of a reporter’s hand? Maybe if it was a private citizen being targeted, or I could even excuse a politician doing that if he was protecting his family.
But just the politician alone in a parking lot, and the reporter isn’t even getting in his face? Unacceptable. Surely there’s some law that he technically broke, like assault or something. Even if you wouldn’t charge a normal citizen, a politician should have a higher standard.
I say no excuses for politicians doing things like that. He should at least be arrested and booked into jail.
Well, they mostly used to be. But now Trump has showed them that they can act like the spoiled greedy children that they are with impunity, and they are making the most out of that situation.
The military have a UCMJ. The politicians could have something, in theory, but who can enforce it? Would content/strictness need vary based on “rank,” so to speak?
No. All politiciaes serve the state, so all must be judged the same. Yes, the president and a local mayor should be held accountable on the same code.