{"id":215109,"date":"2026-06-10T00:28:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T00:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/215109\/"},"modified":"2026-06-10T00:28:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T00:28:11","slug":"machete-cognetti-abandons-scranton-as-armed-lunatics-terrorize-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/215109\/","title":{"rendered":"Machete Cognetti Abandons Scranton as Armed Lunatics Terrorize City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>June 9, 2026<\/p>\n<p>Last week, two armed maniacs were\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fus.list-manage.com%2F8PXTyLxptFf%3Fe%3D2a9705ae19%26c2id%3Dc8aacf869c3b90729a74413942d0888f&amp;data=05%7C02%7Crrichardson%40nrcc.org%7C87a1927a601541998b5908dec61657f0%7Caedd1d67fa1049bea792b853edaad485%7C0%7C0%7C639165996454435008%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=7Bt2fIJ1kFOZFT31GB4psPiME99ut7uY6nKoZKdkP%2Bc%3D&amp;reserved=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">terrorizing<\/a>\u00a0Scranton, threatening everyone they met with a handgun and a machete. Where was Paige \u201cMachete\u201d Cognetti during this? In Chicago, schmoozing with liberal elites.<\/p>\n<p>Cognetti has completely dropped the mask and stopped pretending to care about her city.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"116\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Headline-2-1024x116.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-88584\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Are you having trouble keeping up with all of the bad news about the Cognetti crime wave? Us too. That\u2019s why we decided to put it all in one place:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fus.list-manage.com%2FI53KqXDbpq2%3Fe%3D2a9705ae19%26c2id%3Dc8aacf869c3b90729a74413942d0888f&amp;data=05%7C02%7Crrichardson%40nrcc.org%7C87a1927a601541998b5908dec61657f0%7Caedd1d67fa1049bea792b853edaad485%7C0%7C0%7C639165996454947979%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=qogihK6pASXw3Dtv%2FR61tEXGlY5KyH%2BFfmcYYuTlw1I%3D&amp;reserved=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">machetecognetti.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cScranton is descending into violent madness, and Paige \u2018Machete\u2019 Cognetti is busy schmoozing with liberal elites in faraway cities. Cognetti has completely abandoned Pennsylvanians, which is why they\u2019ll abandon her at the ballot box this November.\u201d\u00a0\u2013 NRCC Spokesman Reilly Richardson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"June 9, 2026 Last week, two armed maniacs were\u00a0terrorizing\u00a0Scranton, threatening everyone they met with a handgun and a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":148647,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[55284,178,180,179],"class_list":["post-215109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-pa-08","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215109\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}