They “defaced” the cutout. No one accused them of vandalism.
"...Vandals defaced a cardboard cutout of New York Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez..."
Very first words:
“Vandals defaced a cardboard cutout”
Still - can one “deface” one’s own item? I suppose. (”I don’t know why you would deface your body with that stupid tatoo!”)
But if a liberal added a rainbow pin, a pretty rainbow sticker on her cheek, and a peace symbol on her other cheek - would that be defacing it?
Obviously the liberal writer is trying to skew the thing.
I imagine him or his ilk would have written something similar to “The protesters carried a dummy of George Bush, hanging in effigy wearing a colorful American flag, suspended from a gilded pole, towering over the cheering crowd. One young woman in the crowd held a copy of President’s Bush official portrait, with a Hitler Mustache and reworked hairline artistically added.”
"Vandals defaced a cardboard cutout of New York Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Thursday night at a party hosted by a group of young conservatives on the sidelines of an annual political conference – writing the Spanish word for 'idiot' on her face."