She was kneeling in her front yard, pulling weeds from around a peach tree, when the police and federal agents arrived. Four men, she remembers, with a question. “Are you Barbara Wien?”
By that balmy afternoon in early October, she sensed that her protest campaign against one of President Donald Trump’s most powerful aides might stir trouble. A few weeks prior, she’d seen two strangers lingering outside her Arlington home. Law enforcement, she had surmised. Shaken, she spent a couple of nights in a neighbor’s basement.
