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struggle4progress

(124,184 posts)
Thu Aug 21, 2025, 10:00 PM Aug 21

Hoagie Hero is decorated veteran

... the government’s latest overreach — bringing a federal felony assault charge against Sean Dunn for throwing a submarine sandwich at an immigration enforcement agent in Washington, D.C. — is beyond the pale ... Elevating the sandwich stunt into a federal crime belies Trump’s pretext for federalization, namely that the city is a hellscape of “crime, bloodshed, bedlam and squalor and worse” ...

... the politicization is occurring on the back of a decorated Air Force veteran who has dedicated his life to military and government service ...

What people don’t know about Dunn is his connection to other prominent Air Force veterans who have blown the whistle on government abuses. In 2014, he interviewed my client Brandon Bryant when Dunn worked at New Europe Studios, which provided video content for The New European, a weekly newspaper based in Britain that has since changed its name to The New World. Even more significantly, Dunn is one of my client Cian Westmoreland’s closest friends. Bryant and Westmoreland were among the first whistleblowers to disclose disturbing and legally questionable aspects of the United States’ nascent drone assassination program ...

... PTSD, however, would certainly help explain how Trump’s federalizing D.C.’s local police and calling in the National Guard could trigger someone like Dunn, who has dedicated his entire adult life to defending Americans, upholding the rule of law and keeping the country safe ...

https://www.salon.com/2025/08/21/dcs-hoagie-hero-is-a-decorated-veteran-trump-co-dont-care/

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