CNN — Ryan Fournier, a co-founder of the political organization Students for Trump, was arrested and charged with assault last week in North Carolina after allegedly hitting a woman with a gun, court records show.

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    10 months ago

    I don’t see the issue here, he seems to be representing exactly what the party stands for.

  • Aniki 🌱🌿@lemm.ee
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    10 months ago

    That dude - with those crow feet - was a freshman in 2015?? He looks older than me and I got like a decade and a half on him.

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    Looks like this isn’t even their first rodeo either.

    They lost their last leader in 2019 to:

    Fournier’s Students for Trump co-founder, John Lambert, accepted a federal plea deal in 2019 and was sentenced to 13 months in prison for a wire fraud scheme that collected over $46,000.

    They are withholding financial details because they claim “The leader handled the finances” Which looks like to be an ongoing investigation.

    Con men and liars.

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    10 months ago

    Is anyone else bothered by the ambiguity of that headline?

    And further irritated by the fact that both OP’s notes simply repeat the phrase “after allegedly hitting a woman with a gun” without clarifying that he, not she, was holding the gun?

    It’s so irritating to have to actually click and read the article. Especially on CNN on my phone because it’s so junk-filled.

    “He is accused of grabbing a woman by her arm and hitting her in the forehead with a firearm, according to the charging documents, which have the woman’s name redacted.”

    There, was that so hard, OP?

    I mean of course we knew, but lazy grammar needs to be fact-checked.

    What if he had been a brave unarmed MAGA individual, that boldly disarmed a woman who was brandishing a dangerous firearm at innocent people? By punching her with his bare hand?

    For one thing that would have been more newsworthy. This is more like “Dog Bites Man.”

    (Edit: And yes, it wouldn’t have been fair to arrest him for that, but it’s not unlikely, and would merit a headline)