The Right has been fulminating about how the “radical leftwing assassin” was released after being arrested for assaulting Zeldin due to New York’s “soft on crime” laws. As usual, they are lying. Sorry about the source, but stopped clock and all.

Not even Zeldin is claiming that the attacker was some sort of “radical leftist.” Zeldin and the attacker are the same age and both served in Iraq at around the same time pic.twitter.com/ojD7eIA4MK

— Michael Tracey (@mtracey) July 22, 2022