https://oec.world/en/profile/country/usa?selector343id=Export#bespoke-title-337

Yes it was. The short answer to your question is very obvious: because he can get away with it and it gives him a feeling of power to threaten people. It’s the why OP answered for you.

People writing such biased and one-sided bullshit are part of the problem, not part of the solution.

Actual hate (and other) crimes happen as part of protests. So does wrongful prosecution for made up infractions to suppress certain opinions.

As long as legitmate protestors and the media supporting them blindly fails to even acknowledge the possibiltyof actual criminals in their ranks and thus fails to distance themselves they are simply enabling their opposition.

As for every topic, whether it’s political, social or anything else: If you managed to let it devolve into tribalism you have already lost.

Also nowadays cars are updated constantly. So you better already collected your evidence as they simply won’t do it anymore now (until after the courts have ruled in their favor for a lack of evidence…)

That’ll teach me to comment before reading

That’s okay. Given people’s habit of just reading headlines and then commenting, your comment has a better chance to be read than the article… 😉

You are looking at this from the wrong perspective…

It’s “causing brain damage to get more voters”.