Seems our junior senator, Chris Coons, took an Amtrak train recently, where he had a run-in with a “far-left reporter” who got the encounter on video.
Aaron Mate, who reports for something called Grayzone, was seated across from Coons. He apologized for putting the senator “on the spot” and demanded to know why he hasn’t called for a cease-fire in Gaza.
“Who are you?” a confused-looking Coons asks. After Mate identifies himself as a reporter, Coons tells him, “This is a quiet car and you’re not supposed to be talking to me.”
Coons scolds the reporter –”You’re breaking the basic rules of how we operate on Amtrak” – and, when that doesn’t shush him up, eventually spells out his carefully crafted position on the conflict in Gaza: “I’m not going to call for a cease-fire. I strongly support humanitarian pauses. I’ve urged the Israeli government to target their campaign against Hamas.” Coons leaves his seat after about 3 minutes of this.
Mate was evicted from the train at its next stop. Thus ever to breakers of silence on the Quiet Car.