re: #166 Charles

The bullet was apparently found less than a foot from the window, the window was not broke. It would have been pretty obvious that it was not fired directly into the window.

The story you quoted at the top of this post says it DID break the windowpane.

re: #174 Charles

I did not write anything like that.

I think it is implied that he lied in your saying that it “turned out to be completely false”. At least, many people reading will infer it.

Also, it seems to me like there is an expectation that he had seen it/gotten the information first hand — I could well be wrong, but my understanding is he probably got a call from a staffer at that office, which is not in DC, and was told of the incident.

re: #184 LudwigVanQuixote

MY supposition is that if someone shot at my window, I would want to know the facts immediately. I would consider it minimal responsibility as a public official to make certain that any statement I made on the topic was factual - and hence get the facts first, if only for that reason. Hell, I might even look at the window myself!

There is only so much a person can do in a day. He’s got to rely on his staffers for information to a large extent. I think, especially in this climate, to expect him to drive down from DC to Richmond to look at it himself is unreasonable.

Clearly, not many here are willing to give him the benefit of the doubt, and instead jump to the opposite conclusion.
I’m done for now. I can see I am well out-numbered.