A man walked on stage and grabbed Rep. Zeldin by the arm, trying to stab him during his speech in New York, according to his campaign.
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Zeldin’s campaign said a man tried to stab Zeldin but the Congressman from Long Island is safe and returned to the stage to speak. The event in Fairport was billed as his first stop on a four-day “Unite to Fire Hochul” bus tour.
Video posted online showed a brief but potentially dangerous encounter during his speech.
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the democrats are destroyig this country!!
Out already. Leftist Demons let their kind out free of charge to murder and kill and destroy…this is why this Zeldin is needed
It's a disgrace that the guy was not charged with attempted murder. If it had been a democrat, the guy would be in jail, in a basement somewhere, with no bail.
And if it was a democrat that was assaulted the person would be in prison for years.
@USA TODAY Your coverage is garbage and ideologically bias as displayed clearly in the on screen text. "Politicized". A Democrat supporter attempted to murder a running Republican and it was captured on video. If anyone is to be blamed for politicizing this incident it should be the Democrat party and Kathy Hochul.
In fact Hochul proved Zeldin claims as the attempted murderer was released on bail for a lesser charge of attempted 2nd assault. Democrats are turning your country in to garbage and if you don't change it, you will end up like Australia or Canada.
Point proven democrat hell hole
Is the guy still in custody?
Obviously USA Today is fake news, I'll have to go to FOX to get the story.
USA Today is as bad or worse than the other mainstream media outlets.
And can u believe he's already out without bail walking the streets and the non violent protesters of Jan 6 are still locked up w out bail!!!!!!!! Wtf!!!!!!!! It's good to be a Democrat…geesh
The guy was on the street a few hours later.
Already released without bail
Ridiculous! He should be in jail but the NYC judge released the man. What kind of the bad judge is.
Such a joke
God bless that Marine for saving his life.
Lee Zeldin is the jussie Smollett of republicans lol
The attacker is NOT in custody; he was RELEASED without bail.
corporate media lies!!!
I think that there's a current vacuum of leadership that causes weak-minded people to feel emboldened to behave in this way. The Democratic party leadership encourages this sort of thing with what they say, and what the fail to say. They are not the leaders that we need.
Yeah, it was so much “politicized” that the perpetrator has already been RELEASED ON THE STREETS thanks to New York’s idiotic bail reform!!
USA Today, you aren’t even good for toilet paper!
He’s not in custody, he’s bAck on the streets within hours, ny is F’d
It doesn't say he was released same day with no bail. Why does it leave that out? Also that was a really weak go with the knife, this may have been staged.
“Radical right wing white nazi violently attempts to stab …”
We all know this would have been the headline.
This is what happens when you are brainwashed by the leftist media. He literally looks like a zombie attacking Zeldin.
Had this been a democrat the suspect would not have been released and we’d have another volley of hearings on ‘Trump violence’. There is a two-tiered politicised justice system indeed
I'm surprised President Biden didn't condemn this act on this congressman
USA TODAY another main stream media liberal rag. 👎
GRABBED HIS ARM?????
NO, ZELDIN GRABBED THE BOZOS ARM, WHEN HE REACHED FOR ZELDINS MICROPHONE.
NO ATTACK.
If this happened to AOC, the USA today would of gave it 24-7 coverage for thr rest of the year
Leftist democrat terrorists are the largest threat to freedom our world faces. Never forget they Align with Hitler, Stalin, Castro and the KK etc. and will literally kill any opinion that doesn't align with their dangerous ideology. I left the democrat party after I realized I had been lie to repeatedly, wake up America, The democrat party is a criminal party that calls you a useful idiot and wants nothing but power and control making a country of corruption for financial gains.
Meh, zelden prob paid him to do it for sympathy.
😂He tried to stab him with one of those my kitty self defense key chains for women, lmfao wtf!?
I find it amazing how we are digging so deep into Jan 6 but we have zero accountability for political figures who are selling people that people like zeldin are far right extremists, racist, fascist and need to be stopped. No one should put a political opponent in danger just to get an edge in an election.
What the hell? Let's do a better job of protecting our GOP heroes: First combover Trump was threatened with a vegetable missile…now someone went after Zeldin with a keychain. Damn those Democrats.
Lee Zeldin is gonna fix the issue with releasing criminals back out to quickly . New Yorkers don’t fumble this ball, his policies are long overdue for us and we need him. Vote Lee Zeldin this November 😤
Zeldin has my vote 🙏 glad he’s ok
Israel and all the Jews of the world must help Ukraine militarily and financially, and when Ukraine wins, Israel and all the Jews must move to Ukraine and establish a state in Ukraine
A green European state instead of Palestine, all of them are endless problems in the first place, the Jews lived in Ukraine historically, not in Palestine
Media would be freaking out if a conservative tried to kill pelosi, or biden. Not even mentioned on msnbc, cnn, or the view.
Just like the planned Kavanaugh assassination. It it was Sotomayor it would of been 24/7 for 6 months.
People are waking up to this fraud that is mainstream media. They ignore facts, while pushing the democrat party agenda.
The Weapon looked like a Letter Opener.
This is what happens when the current Governor of the State. Puts a statement where this man is and calls for violence.
Maybe acting Governor Huchol can keep us even safer then we are now by outlawing knives.
The far left cults second assassination attempt on a conservative political figure in a couple months . Vote wisely in the coming months
Seriously? Can liberals do anything right?
support for Zeldins attacker is support for your children's attacker.
Ive been saying for years…we need to pass common sense knife laws