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39. It's deeply engrained "bully" behavior and protocol for handling it

A bully always throws the first punch and when the recipient of the throttling attempts to defend against it, in comes the "teacher/adult/bystander" to say "it takes two to tango", "both are guilty", and other such things...

Some of it may be an extension of Christian teaching of "turn the other cheek" (paraphrased) and it seems to expect one to wait for karma to take out the bully eventually. However there are times when this sort of behavior relies on a different type of response, one that I think Obama actually deployed throughout his time in office - let the aggressor use his own momentum to not only fail to deliver the blow, but injure himself instead after you execute careful maneuvers (basically martial arts).

In fact even now, I expect Obama (as well as Loretta Lynch) knows pretty much the entire story behind all of this. But for now, they are going to let it play out - let the momentum of the punches carry the punchers over the ledge. But doing this requires superb skill to know the what, how, and when to make the moves. You see Cummings using those tactics as well...