Posted on 06/03/2019 11:55:29 AM PDT by Red Badger
The drink was allegedly thrown by a former political rival
Rep. Matt Gaetz was hit by a drink cup hurled through the air as he left a town hall this weekend.
As the Trump ally and Fox News personality left the event in Pensacola Saturday and waded through a crowd of protesters, a cup filled with a red liquid sailed through the air and hit him, according to a video of the incident reported by WKRG and posted to Twitter.
“Clearly it takes more than a drink to slow down our great team,” Gaetz said in a tweet.
The drink was allegedly thrown by a former political rival.
Police arrested Amanda Kondrat’yev and charged her with misdemeanor battery for allegedly being behind the projectile, the Pensacola News Journal reported. Kondrat’yev has been released on bail.
In a Facebook fundraiser for legal expenses, Kondrat’yev wrote, “Not sure how much court stuff costs but I was charged with Battery today for allegedly milkshaking Congressman Matt Gaetz.”
A video of the incident posted to Twitter has accumulated over one million views.
Kondrat’yev ran against Gaetz to represent the 1st District in 2016 after Rep. Jeff Miller retired but she eventually withdrew, according to the News Journal.
Gaetz’s father is a former state representative who once led the Florida Senate.
Kondrat’yev did not immediately reply to a request for comment sent to her Facebook page.
Kondrat’yev’s arrest comes as British protesters have captured headlines for drenching rightwing political figures — including Brexit leader Nigel Farage — in milkshakes.
He’ll consider dropping the charges if he is allowed to throw a red (frozen) milkshake back at her.(Sarc)
It’s only a matter of time before they start throwing bleach, acid, rocks, Molotov cocktails, then eventually grenades................
See my tag line.
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She’s a BLM thug, of course. Just went to her FB page, what a worthless sack of excrement she is...
She likes Pocahontas too.
Is her name Russian?
I read something written by a lefty who was embarrassed/horrified. He said the left was acting like high school children throwing milkshakes instead of being able to articulate their opinions and appeal to the public via their reasoning. Then I read about lefties in the UK mowing an image of a penis in a field next to the airport so that it would be “in Trump’s face” as he landed for his visit. They were IMPRESSED with themselves! THAT is the best they’ve got, people!
As their violence escalates, sooner rather than later, the leftists are going to need to be introduced to our Second Amendment rights
WTF kind d of name is THAT??? Never see. That kind of spelling? RUSSIAN?
Where does “allegedly” fit?
Either he was hit or he wasn’t.
SPELLING? FAUXChohontas!
Are Democrats UGLY because they Re Democrats, or are they UGLY because they are Democrats?
...and Twitter encourages such assaults by allowing the video to remain up.
She’s everything I expected her to be... a self-loathing bitch who hates the world.
Yep. They love this.
They have an infantile obsession with throwing things at people to simulate blood, feces, or semen when it isn’t actually blood, feces, or semen.
It will eventually be something worse than milk.
Should be jail time for that putrid Leftist scum.
Not Congressman...? No bias in the writing! /S
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