According to Reuters (edited lightly for brevity):
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - The elder son of former Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin has been charged with assault and burglary in a violent confrontation with his father in which the two men struggled over a handgun at his parents’ Alaska home, court records showed on Monday.
According to the criminal complaint and supporting documents, Track Palin, 28, broke through a window of the house in Wasilla, Alaska, and scuffled with his father, Todd Palin, on Saturday night in a clash that stemmed from a family dispute over a truck.According to the LA Times, Track also insulted the cops responding to Sarah's 911 call:
Track Palin, who is now barred by court order from further contact with his parents and two younger siblings who live with them, remained jailed on Monday in lieu of $5,000 bail.
He was charged with a felony count of burglary with attempted injury and a misdemeanor assault count, according to court records.
It was Sarah Palin who called police to report that her elder son was assaulting his father and “freaking out and was on some type of medication,” the police affidavit stated.
Todd Palin later recounted the conflict started when his son called to say he was coming to the house to get a truck, and the father objected, prompting the son to threaten that he was en route “anyway to beat his ass,” the affidavit said.
The father armed himself with a pistol as he waited for his son to arrive, but ultimately, the affidavit said, “Todd decided he was not going to shoot his son” and was disarmed by the younger Palin as the two struggled.
Track Palin told police after his arrest, according to the affidavit, that his father had pointed the gun at him, and that the son goaded his father to shoot him. It said he admitted to drinking a few beers earlier that night.
Police confronted Track Palin in the residence. He called them "peasants" and told them to lay down their weapons, according to the documents. Eventually, Palin left the house and was placed in handcuffs.This is the thing about guns: they provide zero protection unless you are willing to kill someone first. Todd Palin made the typical mistake of thinking that pointing a gun at someone will stop them. But it doesn't: if they don't think you'll shoot, or think that you're a bad shot and you'll miss, or they just don't care if you shoot, they will come and take that gun away from you. And now you've armed a maniac or a criminal.
Since 2008, Sarah Palin has been the face of the Republican base. She and her family are prototypical Trump voters: smug, right-wing, arrogant, drunken, ignorant, angry, hate-filled, gun-crazed, drug-addled, premarital fornicating and pregnant (remember Bristol?), immoral, violent and completely apathetic about what happens to people who aren't exactly like them. They are, in a word, losers.
The Sarah Palin Republicans voted en masse for child molester Roy Moore and sexual predator Donald Trump.
When John McCain picked Sarah Palin for his vice president, it was obvious to all that she was stupid and unqualified. He lost in no small part because he chose Palin. But in doing so, McCain opened the door for any idiot to run for president.
And an idiot did: Donald Trump. And the idiot Sarah Palin Republican base voted for him. Now, as McCain stares down death from a malignant brain tumor, he sees his legacy as a war hero and maverick senator dissolve into the man who normalized idiocy and made Trump possible.
For decades Republicans have ridiculed the personal tragedies of blacks and Hispanics, characterizing them as welfare queens and wetbacks. Now Donald Trump, Roy Moore, the Palin family, Trent Franks, Blake Farenthold and all the rest have by their own actions iconified the Republican base as a rabble of losers, teen moms, drunks, rapists, gropers, trailer trash and idiots.
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