If Donald Trump's New Hampshire outreach efforts begin to look a little spottier in coming weeks, don't blame him. His New Hampshire Veterans for Trump co-chair has skedaddled off to join the snackless Bundy-led militia "takeover" of an Oregon wildlife refuge.
[Jerry DeLemus] apparently arrived with a videographer Wednesday night in Oregon, where he plans to meet with militants and help them sort out rumors circulating about various participants.
Our ragtag bunch of heroes, you see, suspects that there might be a federal informant among their ranks. They haven't even used up the canned soup yet and are already going Lord of the Flies on one another.
DeLemus is a key figure in the Bundy saga; it was he who claimed he had turned away Jerad and Amanda Miller from joining the original Bundy Ranch standoff, after which the pair traveled to Las Vegas and murdered two police officers in an attempt to start a supposed anti-government revolution on their own. He was the Bundy's "security chief," at the time; more recently he has been appearing on your television as the supposedly not-insane voice of Donald Trump supporters, with nary a mention of his history as a lead organizer for the nice men who were prepared to execute federal agents if those officers attempted to round up illegally grazing cattle. He is, in other words, a crap-pile.
In other news, the militia members have now procured themselves a horse. This will come in handy for posing themselves majestically on a horse during photo-ops, but the tactical military value of the horse remains unclear.
So they're up one horse and one ass. Still a bit light in the snacks department, though.