Thank you for reading. At the very last of the article, there is a paragraph: On Saturday, people were donating funds online to cover the teenager’s legal fees, the ABC reported, and to help him buy “more eggs.”
I am wondering why the author put "ABC reported" before "to help him buy more eggs. What did the author intend with this word order?
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/16/world/austra...

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@Kairozu Thank you. But, my point is why the author did not write it as: On Saturday, people were donating funds online to cover the teenager’s legal fees, and to help him buy “more eggs.” the ABC reported.

I think the sentence you suggested sounds very natural. I thought that something was intended so the author delibelatery used that word order in the paragraph.

@Kairozu Sorry that I'm still sticking to this silly question :) Yes, as you said, they might not want to end the article with "the ABC reported" because the article belongs to NYtimes. But this morning I got a possible reason which is that the author might want to end the article with the humor, that might not be the fact from the source, that might be the author's idea and he added it there and closed the article with the humorous sentence.

Thank you. Your first idea is very convincing. I was inclined to agree with you. Then I visited ABC news page and found a sentence like this: A fundraising page set up to collect donations to cover the teenager's legal fees and to buy "more eggs" had raised almost $20,000 by 12:00 pm on Sunday. So, now I think your second idea is more possible. By the way, In my opinion, that 17 years old boy was wrong. I mean, he did it in a wrong way. He should have smashed an egg from the position two steps back so that he was able to smash the second one onto his face when the senator turned to the boy without having punched :) I do not mean to say he did the right thing though.

@Kairozu Yes. He is the type of person who throws a fit easily. I thought he has even punched the boy after he recognized that it was an egg thrown by a skinny young boy. I do not think that that kind of person should be in any important positions.
And, I was almost about to forget what my question was, and apparently, the answer is still a bit ambiguous. However, I was able to learn a lot from the exchanging with you. Thank you very much for being nice to me, in spite of clumsy English writing.