11/3/25 CBS News covers trial of the government worker who used an assault sub sandwich on an ICE agent:
Julia Gatto, one of Dunn's lawyers, questioned why Mr. Trump's Justice Department is prosecuting Dunn after the Republican president issued pardons and ordered the dismissal of assault cases stemming from a mob's attack on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
"It's an obvious answer," Gatto said during a hearing last Thursday. "The answer is they have different politics. And that's selective prosecution."
Prosecutors countered that Dunn's political expressions don't make him immune from prosecution for assaulting the agent.
"The defendant is being prosecuted for the obvious reason that he was recorded throwing a sandwich at a federal officer at point-blank range," they wrote.
If breaking the law because of political upset justifies prosecution under a Democrat, the same is true under a Republican. You had a choice, Mr. Dunn, to Subway a federal officer or just shout. You chose poorly. (He also lost his job. Federal employees are prohibited from political activity. If he is correct that this is a politically motivated prosecution, he should ask if perhaps his overtly political action "at point-blank range" is a violation of the Hatch Act.)
Did the prosecutors have a good laugh with that phrase. What is battle zero for a submarine sandwich?
Gatto's demagoguery ignores the fact that Trump's pardons were rooted in the actions of the government. Trump really needs to release a bullet-pointed list of all the abuses that prompted the pardons. Off the top of my head...at least one non-violent protester (Chansley) was kept in solitary confinement. Many were held in pretrial detention for YEARS. Assault charges were filed selectively - against violent protesters only and not against the Capitol defenders who lobbed teargas wildly into the part of the crowd that wasn't bothering anybody (some of it captured in the linked video - language warning). Over 300 were falsely charged with violating a Sarbanes-Oxley statute.
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