[PA Engineer]

Well it’s also silly to call her contact assault outside of making a rhetorical point about how silly she is being. Nor even battery (which I just learned is the correct term for physical contact that is violent or sexually aggressive...while assault means threatening battery)

What would have happened to you or I if we forced away into a Secret Service cordon?

[AndyTheBear]

Not sure. Not really anxious to test that theory. My vocabulary is improving today though...just looked up cordon.

I will grant she had no right to try to push past the cordon. But I am not sure how many reporters do typically. So I am not really ready to fault her for it. Its the making the story about herself over a load of crap charge I fault her for.