Here are the facts about this weekend's firebombing of a Republican Party office in North Carolina.
A bottle filled with a flammable substance was thrown through the window of the party's Orange County headquarters in the town of Hillsborough on Saturday night or Sunday morning. Hillsborough is 12 miles north of Chapel Hill. The damage was fairly substantial, while the words "Nazi Republicans get out of town or else" were spray-painted on an adjacent building:
Spray painted on the side of the OCGOP when it was fire bombed "Nazi Republicans leave town or else" pic.twitter.com/gvduwIpjMw
— NCGOP (@NCGOP) October 16, 2016
The act of arson is being investigated by local police and state and federal authorities. No suspects have yet been identified.
Here's how the incident has played out in the context of our terrible election.
Donald Trump blamed Hillary Clinton.
Animals representing Hillary Clinton and Dems in North Carolina just firebombed our office in Orange County because we are winning @NCGOP
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 16, 2016
(Clinton condemned the attack.)
A group of Democrats raised $13,000 online to go toward repairs in what they billed as an act of bipartisan civil decency.
Other non-Republicans* condemned the Democrats who'd raised the money for being traitors to the various groups that the North Carolina Republican Party's policies have ill effects on.
donating to the NC GOP is no act of charity; it's giving money to organization hellbent on making the lives of trans ppl unbearable.
— eve peyser (@evepeyser) October 17, 2016
if you're a democrat who gave money to rebuild the NC Trump office, you're a HUGE cuck
— eve peyser (@evepeyser) October 17, 2016
It's a fun election and a fun time for everybody.
*Correction, 1:40 p.m.: Eve Peyser attests that she is a leftist, not a Democrat.