It was just a shove, but when you read what the guy who did it says about the congressman, it sounds frighteningly similar to the militant anti-abortion activists (and that Pizzagate moron who thought there were children being held captive under that pizza parlor by Hillary Clinton), the "saving the children" rhetoric that inflames gun nuts.
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Pan, a Democrat from Sacramento, was pushed from behind by Kenneth Austin Bennett, who challenged the senator in the 2018 primary but did not qualify for the general election. Bennett filed a recall petition against Pan earlier this year alleging the senator was committing treason by authoring bills to increase vaccination rates in the state.
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Bennett posted the video with the caption: “yes, I pushed Richard Pan for lying, laughing at us and for treason.” He added in the video that if Pan “Got what he deserved he would be hanged for treason for assaulting children, for misrepresenting the truth.”