Posted on 04/24/2021 4:24:39 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Rep. Brad Wenstrup (R-Ohio) is asking the FBI to reassess their decision to classify the June 14, 2017 baseball field shooting outside of Washington as “suicide by cop” rather than a domestic terrorism case.
Wenstrup was present when the Republican legislators were targeted by left-wing extremist James Hodgkinson, who fired over 100 rounds at them and other staff, severely injuring House Minority Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.), who was hit on the hip and recovered after many surgeries.
The letter, (pdf) which protests and asks for a reassessment, was addressed to FBI Director Christopher Wray last week and made available to reporters on Wednesday.
The shooter is known to have posted angry messages about then-president Donald Trump and other Republicans. He was wounded during gunfire exchange with Capitol Police and later died at the scene.
“According to FBI Special Agents, the attacker’s motivation was ‘suicide by cop,'” Wenstrup wrote.
“This conclusion defies logic and contradicts the publicly known facts about the perpetrator and the attack. The shooter had an extensive social media record highlighting his hatred of President Trump and Republicans. He had a list of names—including Republican Members of Congress—in his possession. Before carrying out his attack, he asked if the Members at the baseball field were Republicans or Democrats,” Wenstrup wrote.
“He was heavily armed, sought cover during the shooting, well over 100 rounds were fired, and the attacker could not have known that then-Majority Whip Steve Scalise’s security detail was present given that they were in an undercover vehicle and in plain clothes. All these facts are inconsistent with a designation of ‘suicide by cop.’”
He then expresses his frustration, saying that the FBI didn’t conduct thorough interviews at the outset of the investigation, claiming that neither he nor his colleagues were interviewed as witnesses.
(Excerpt) Read more at theepochtimes.com ...
9/11 was suicide by airplane.
How can it be suicide by cop when he shot up a bunch of unarmed Republican senators on an unguarded baseball field?
Yeah, they will get right on it.
Note to the Epoch Times - Scalise was shot in the abdomen and nearly bled out before getting the the trauma unit. His survival was miraculous.
What a load of crap, worthy of Commies , Russkies rewriting history.
Embarrassing.
I despise these scumbags.
If Wenstrop believes that the FBI wants to get to the truth, he is an idiot.
Just when I think my contempt for the corrupt FBI can’t sink lower.
Worse than that a fool. We passed the idiot stage. We are now at the fool stage.
Exactly the way to expose Babbitt’s shooter. At least there are some GOP staff with the guts to lead their guy to the truth...
I don’t get it – – what’s the benefit of this?
(PS— I did not pay to read the entire article)
“9/11 was suicide by plane”
...and ruled a tax by Justice John Roberts
...victims families sued but were told they had no standing
The fbi is hopelessly corrupt
The benefit is the FBI acknowledges the attack on sitting Republican senators was a Left-wing domestic terrorist act, which it was.
But the narrative is only right-wingers can be domestic terrorists, which is why BLM/Antifa can burn cities to the ground with impunity and Trump supporters get arrested as domestic terrorist when all most of them did was show up in DC to support Trump.
In the year 2525?
The shooter, James T. Hodgkinson, was a rabidly anti-Trump activist and Bernie Sanders supporting socialist. He was unaware that officers were even present, did not call the police, and was actively shooting at Republican Representatives. His intentions were CLEARLY to kill Republican Representatives. The fact that he was willing to die to accomplish that goal does not make this a “suicide by cop”, it makes it a terrorist attack. That the FBI would characterize it this way is no surprise, as knowingly or not, James T. Hodgkinson was doing exactly what the FBI was hoping for. If not for his social media activism, the FBI would have painted him as a white nationalist.
“According to FBI Special Agents, the attacker’s motivation was ‘suicide by cop,’”
But, but..Hannity assures us the field guys are cool.
MY STUPID Pubbie, VERN BUCHANAN ONLY CARES ABOUT ANIMALS....NOT TAXPAYERS!
WE NEED NEW, STRONG BLOOD!
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