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Video: Loretta Lynch reveals that the Orlando shooter didn’t mention gays to the FBI
Hot Air.com ^ | June 18, 2016 | JAZZ SHAW

Posted on 06/19/2016 4:50:11 PM PDT by Kaslin

As part of the Sunday morning roundup, Attorney General Loretta Lynch made the rounds of the cable news shows to preview a report that the Justice Department will be releasing tomorrow regarding the Orlando terror attack. As with most of the coverage of the story we’ve seen over the past week, there was a rush to find out if the attacker was some sort of racist or homophobe and if that’s what led to all the carnage we saw. One of Lynch’s first stops was with Dana Bash, who was filling in for Jake Tapper on CNN’s State of the Union. The Attorney General first wanted to make sure everyone knows that the FBI did the best they could. (The Hill)

“At the time, the FBI did everything it could to see if he was about to carry out anything.”

The FBI had said they previously interviewed Mateen about possible connections to terrorism, but determined he wasn’t a threat. Evidence shows he may have been radicalized and inspired by extremist ideology.

Mateen, who died in a shootout with police, allegedly praised the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria and other terrorist groups during the killings.

Lynch is promising that the report tomorrow will not be a full transcript of the shooter’s conversations with law enforcement, but that they will seek to let people know “what motivated this killer” while mentioning his pledges of allegiance to this terror group. But Bash jumped right into the topic of chief interest to the media. Was he screaming about gay men kissing or any related subject? This part of the interview begins right around the 1:30 mark in the clip.

FULL Loretta Lynch INTERVIEW ON CNN "State of the Union" with Dana Bash (19/6/2016)

Attorney General Loretta Lynch: It will contain the substance of his conversations. And there were three conversations between this killer and negotiators.

Dana Bash: He was, of course, in a gay nightclub. Did he talk about his feelings about gay Americans?

Lynch: You know, he didn’t get into that. So we’re still exploring why he chose this particular place to attack. We’re asking people who have information to come forward… We are trying to learn everything we can about this individuals motivations. As you note, he was in a gay nightclub. This was an act of terror and an act of hate targeted against a community, the LGBT community, the Latino community, and of course the LGBT community is so far too often the victims of these types of crimes.

To her credit, Bash asks the question which Social Justice Warriors have been desperately seeking a positive, reinforcing answer on. Did he attack the nightclub patrons because he was going after gays? Keep in mind that the standoff between law enforcement and the terrorist lasted for roughly three hours and, as Lynch reminds us, there were three extensive conversations between them. They obviously asked him why he was doing it as part of their negotiating tactics and he talked about US policy and his dedication to ISIS. With that much time on his hands, if he was some hate filled, right wingnut American (though a registered Democrat) who was making a statement along those lines, don’t you suppose it might have come up?

But notice how seamlessly our Attorney General glides from providing a factual answer to Bash’s question into the administration’s preferred narrative, as well as that of most of the media. Did he talk about gay Americans? No, “he didn’t get into that.” But she then immediately pivots to talking about what progressives want to make this into, despite the fact that she’s already admitted that the terrorist didn’t even suggest such a thing when prompted to discuss his motives.

Lynch showed up on Face the Nation shortly after this and recited the same lines. John Dickerson prompted her by saying he “mentioned ISIS” and asked “what else” he talked about. Did he mention LGBT? She said, yet again, he didn’t bring it up “in that conversation” but then jumped right into the LGBT and Hispanic angle.

Is it any wonder that a recent Gllup poll showed that only 29% of Democrats labeled the shooting as an act of Islamic terror? But 60% described it as an act of “domestic gun violence.” What planet are we living on where one party in this country can ring up those sorts of numbers? How many more blows with the clue bat do you need? A pledge of support to ISIS… trips overseas… a father who supports the Taliban and remains active in Afghanistan politics… an attack during Ramadan. And yet the Democrats are trying to turn this into an election issue over repealing the Second Amendment and how conservatives must want to kill gays and lesbians.

They’re getting the job done, though. I just finished reading a recent piece from Jonathan Capehart where he goes on at length comparing the Orlando killer and his father to a gay themed scene from the movie American Beauty. No… seriously. I’m not making that up. Go read it for yourself. It’s as if we’ve shown up at the wrong garden party and followed Alice down the rabbit hole.



TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Government; US: Florida; US: New York
KEYWORDS: 2016election; attorneygeneral; cnn; danabash; demagogicparty; doj; election2016; fbi; gaykkk; hezbollah; homosexualagenda; isis; kenyanbornmuzzie; libertarians; lorettalynch; medicalmarijuana; memebuilding; newyork; omarmateen; orlando; orlandoterrorattacks; partisanmediashill; partisanmediashills; trump; underthebuswithyou
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To: Kaslin

The gay angle is a red herring the way the video was a red herring in Benghazi.

He was scoping out the place with his visits. He was looking to terrorize Disney World.


21 posted on 06/19/2016 5:17:53 PM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard the Third: With my own people alone I should like to drive away the Muslims)
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To: csvset
Absolutely. 49 people were killed, whether they were straight, gay or somewhere in between is immaterial. What really matters is that the gunman was a Muslim. Yet another Islamic terror incident in America on Obama’s watch.

Well, the government now controls history. They guy was a right-wing gun-nut who targeted gays because of Trump's hate speech.

22 posted on 06/19/2016 5:19:13 PM PDT by Cementjungle
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To: dp0622
He wasn’t necessarily gay if that’s the case.

Bah. He was gay. He apparently had been in that club socially before, he knew the layout and he knew it was a soft target. No further explanation required.

23 posted on 06/19/2016 5:19:34 PM PDT by pepsi_junkie (ui)
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To: WyCoKsRepublican
Lynch is a tool, a POS hack.

I doubt that Loretta Lynch has any idea of what is going on. Someone just hands her talking points and she just goes with that. The same thing with Susan Rice.
24 posted on 06/19/2016 5:35:57 PM PDT by Ticonderoga34
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

I don’t trust a word from this administration.


25 posted on 06/19/2016 5:39:54 PM PDT by BipolarBob (I'm so open minded that you should only think like me.)
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To: Kaslin
nor was he ask at his security background check to work for DHS either... tight???
26 posted on 06/19/2016 5:40:02 PM PDT by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -w- NO Pity for the LAZY - Luke, 22:36)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...
She fits right in with the rest of the White House cadre. Thanks Kaslin.

27 posted on 06/19/2016 5:44:17 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (I'll tell you what's wrong with society -- no one drinks from the skulls of their enemies anymore.)
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To: Kaslin

Lynch is the MALE CLONE of Obama....SMOOTH yet DUMB as a Box of Rocks!!


28 posted on 06/19/2016 5:46:22 PM PDT by Ann Archy (ABORTION....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: BipolarBob

Trust them.

She said she was going to have it edited, and it was.

And no one will do anything t stop her.


29 posted on 06/19/2016 5:48:42 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (Gear Up)
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To: Kaslin
But 60% described it as an act of “domestic gun violence.”

I talked with a liberal today. Unfortunately I have taken the time to answer the phone and help him with his two-person chores a couple times a year, Even though he is decrepit, it is stupid of me. His position today was we need an assault weapons ban. I said that the only way we could do that is to ban all semiautomatics. and that his rifle would be banned. His answer was "I have mine."

30 posted on 06/19/2016 5:55:31 PM PDT by palmer (Net "neutrality" = Obama turning the internet over to foreign enemies)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

I read this story on the aol homepage. They ALWAYS have a comments section at the end of the stories. Apparently they didn’t want anyone to comment on this propaganda.

http://www.aol.com/article/2016/06/19/fbi-to-release-transcript-of-orlando-killers-calls-with-police/21398143/


31 posted on 06/19/2016 6:05:28 PM PDT by shelterguy
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To: Kaslin

With the Obama administration covering for the terrorist we will see more of this.


32 posted on 06/19/2016 6:06:21 PM PDT by just me (GOD BLESS AMERICA Amen)
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To: shelterguy

AOL has always toed the line with their liberal masters.


33 posted on 06/19/2016 6:08:34 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (Gear Up)
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To: Kaslin

Why hide motive?


34 posted on 06/19/2016 6:12:23 PM PDT by combat_boots (The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spiritui Sancto!)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo
"She had it edited out."

The Ministry of Truth is going to amend the facts of the Orlando Shooter incident so as to better reflect the desired reality of the Inner Party.

(Your calendar may indicate 2016 but we are living in "1984"...!)

35 posted on 06/19/2016 6:15:42 PM PDT by Mad Dawgg (If you're going to deny my 1st Amendment rights then I must proceed to the 2nd one...)
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To: Kaslin

There is a massive cover up underway


36 posted on 06/19/2016 6:16:33 PM PDT by Williams (Dear God please save us from the democrats. And the republicans.)
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To: All

Nowhere have I seen a statement from the shooter, “Die phags die!” - probably because one doesn’t exist. It is an inference drawn from the same lamestream media that lies and distorts everything else that the shooter targeted that club because of its homo clientele.

Because the authorities have not released any sort of victim list there is no way of knowing who was shot, who was killed, and what their sexual orientation was.

The one indisputable truth is that the shooter professed his allegiance to islamic terrorism. Not to anti-homo terrorism. Not even to anti-American terrorism. To the enemies of islam - which essentially is everything that is NOT controlled by islam.

Ironic how that’s the one thing the Ødungo regime cannot allow to see the light of day.


37 posted on 06/19/2016 6:19:45 PM PDT by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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To: Kaslin
"...We are trying to learn everything we can about this individuals motivations. As you note, he was in a gay nightclub..."

Suppose the autopsy finds that he had AIDS?

38 posted on 06/19/2016 6:22:17 PM PDT by Does so (Vote for Hillary...Stay Home...==8-O)
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To: palmer

Hillary Clinton: “Weapons of war have no place on our streets.”

Laz A. Mataz: “Muslims are weapons of war.”


39 posted on 06/19/2016 6:25:41 PM PDT by Lazamataz (Hillary: "Weapons of war have no place on our streets."... Laz: "Muslims are weapons of war.")
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To: Kaslin

“I will have the most TRANSPARENT administration IN US HISTORY.”


40 posted on 06/19/2016 6:43:31 PM PDT by gaijin
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