"Where is the liberal corporate media’s concern about that real violence? Additionally, none of what your question implies is accurate. It is more fake news and propaganda."

From the Republican Party of Texas, a "Statement Regarding ‘Biden Bus’ Incident." Full text:

Abby Livingston from The Texas Tribune reached out to the RPT today and asked a question about a Biden campaign bus in her attempt to portray conservatives as violent radicals, even though it is leftists from Antifa and BLM who have been assaulting, robbing, and looting fellow citizens and their property.

 

Below is Chairman Allen West’s response: 

Three Trump supporters have been executed, one in Portland, one in Denver, and one Milwaukee. A leftist mob attempted to storm the house of the McCloskeys, threatened to burn their house down, rape Mrs. McCloskey, and then kill them both. 

Where is the liberal corporate media’s concern about that real violence? Additionally, none of what your question implies is accurate. It is more fake news and propaganda. 

Prepare to lose…stop bothering me. Maybe Soros can cut y’all another check in 2022.

Do you know what the "'Biden Bus' Incident" is? Here's how the Texas Tribune ended up writing about it: "Biden camp cancels multiple Texas events after a 'Trump Train' surrounded a campaign bus/The highway skirmish came as Democrats close ground in a state that is polling competitively in the race for president. Recent polls indicate the presidential race in Texas between President Donald Trump and Joe Biden is tight, with some national prognosticators calling it a 'toss-up.'”

The Federal Bureau of Investigation is looking into a Friday incident in which a group of Trump supporters, driving trucks and waving Trump flags, surrounded and followed a Biden campaign bus as it drove up I-35 in Hays County, a law enforcement official confirmed to The Texas Tribune Saturday. 

The confrontation, captured on video, featured at least one minor collision and led to Texas Democrats canceling three scheduled campaign events on Friday. The campaign officials cited “safety concerns” for the cancellations.... 

Eric Cervini, a volunteer for the Biden campaign who grew up in Round Rock and flew in from Los Angeles, said he was driving on I-35 from San Antonio to the next event when he saw a long line of 40-50 vehicles along the side of the highway with Trump and American flags. 

Cervini told the Tribune that when he arrived in San Marcos, he started to hear from people on the bus that the Trump supporters had started following them closely, honking their horns and shouting. According to the Biden campaign, multiple trucks pulled in front of the bus and appeared to try to slow it down. The campaign canceled the event in San Marcos and proceeded directly to Austin where another event was scheduled at the AFL-CIO in downtown Austin....

Here's the Twitchy presentation, with lots of tweets from Cervini. 

I've watched the video and think the Biden people are exaggerating it but also that driving should be about driving, not political expression. It's one thing to have stickers and signs on your car, and it's okay to group your cars together in a "caravan" (like the way people drive from a funeral to a gravesite). But it's wrong to drive in a style that's meant to express negativity or opposition to other drivers, even if you maintain safe speeds and proper distance between the cars. You should not do things that make people in other cars (or in trucks and buses) feel that they are being challenged or recognized and hated. It's dangerous and it's not funny. 

Cervini was exaggerating — "These Trump supporters, many of whom were armed, surrounded the bus on the interstate and attempted to drive it off the road" — and perhaps he was not as afraid as he acted, but it was wrong to use the highway like that — even if the Trumpsters were operating in a spirit of good fun and merely trying to say We vastly outnumber you. 

I've seen the video that shows the accident, and I think it's pretty clear that both drivers are guilty of recklessness. The entire lead-up to the accident is not shows, but it looks like the Biden car starts it and creates an alarming escalation in a stupid effort to get between the Trump truck and the Biden bus, but the Trump truck takes on the challenge and plays chicken with the car by closing the gap behind the truck to an insanely small space. 

This is a traffic violation and attempted homicide. Why hasn’t anyone been arrested? pic.twitter.com/QnfF4vXMQn

— haunting student debt owners (@mcbyrne) October 31, 2020

The GOP statement is sassily phrased, but the argument is specious. Murder is worse than reckless driving, but murder is worse than a lot of things we're entitled to complain about to the police. 

And I do understand that this is another occasion to make quips about how the left talks about "defunding" the police, but there's no way to know whether the individuals operating and riding in that bus are anti-police. And, more importantly, even people who hate the police deserve police protection. Equal justice for all, even people who oppose justice.

ADDED: Here's the NYT story on the subject, adopting the running-them-off-the-road theory of what happened: "Vehicles flying Trump flags try to force a Biden-Harris campaign bus off a highway in Texas." 

It ends with a quote from Trump, spoken at his Montoursville rally last night: "Anybody see the picture of their crazy bus driving down the highway, they are surrounded by hundreds of cars, they are all Trump flags all over the place."