Rep. Dave Taylor, R-Ohio, said that upon " learning of this matter, I immediately directed a thorough investigation alongside Capitol Police, which remains ongoing."
So it doesn’t seem like it was his flag but that of one of his staffers. I can say there is a non-negligible chance someone at my work could have something like this and I wouldn’t notice. Now I’m not saying he should be praised for meeting the bare minimum requirement for condemning that flag, but unless there’s more to the story proving something more insidious, I don’t feel like ragging on him is the best course of action.
Sure, there is room for reasonable doubt. It may have been a staffer who put it up, or even a visitor to the office who pinned it up as a grim prank or to frame the congressman. But this guy’s party is currently championing mass arrest, imprisonment, and deportation of thousands of people with no due process, so my willingness to give him any benefit of the doubt is long gone.
A picture of the flag, from Politico:
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It wasn’t exactly hidden.
So it doesn’t seem like it was his flag but that of one of his staffers. I can say there is a non-negligible chance someone at my work could have something like this and I wouldn’t notice. Now I’m not saying he should be praised for meeting the bare minimum requirement for condemning that flag, but unless there’s more to the story proving something more insidious, I don’t feel like ragging on him is the best course of action.
Sure, there is room for reasonable doubt. It may have been a staffer who put it up, or even a visitor to the office who pinned it up as a grim prank or to frame the congressman. But this guy’s party is currently championing mass arrest, imprisonment, and deportation of thousands of people with no due process, so my willingness to give him any benefit of the doubt is long gone.
Well that’s not subtle at all. Yikes.