Rand Paul rips FBI’s ‘suicide by cop’ classification of baseball park shooting

Fox News ^ | April 24 | By Ronn Blitzer

[RandFan]

Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., pushed back against the notion that the 2017 shooting at a congressional baseball practice was merely a case of "suicide by cop," after Rep. Brad Wenstrup, R-Ohio, revealed at a hearing this was exactly how the FBI characterized it at the time.

Paul was there at the time of the incident, during which Rep. Steve Scalise, R-La., suffered a gunshot wound that resulted in serious injury and was nearly fatal. In a statement to Fox News, Paul rejected the idea that the attack was not politically motivated.

"I was present at the baseball practice where a Bernie Sanders supporter nearly killed Rep. Steve Scalise," Paul said. "It would seem that his goal was to kill individual members of Congress since he had a list of targets in his pocket. He also was heard to yell, 'this is for healthcare!' To argue that this assassination attempt was suicide by cop is unsupported by the facts."

The gunman, James Hodgkinson, fired well over 100 rounds at congressmen, their aides, and others present on the ball field.

He had asked whether the ballplayers were Democrats or Republicans before opening fire and was carrying a list of GOP lawmakers and their physical descriptions. The Republicans were on the field that day in preparation for an annual charity ball game.

[Diogenesis]

everyone now KNOWS the FIB was behind the attack(s)
on Congress, on the President, & on the American People
from Boston, to Florida to California, everywhere.

it is what they do - when not arresting innocent
conservatives or forcing their pregnant wives to lose
their children.

[Erik Latranyi]

Nidal Hasan’s Murders Termed ‘Workplace Violence’ by U.S.

If you do not understand that the left is totally in control now, you are fooling yourself.

[BlackAdderess]

Yeah no, that was clearly domestic terrorism. By that definition suicide bombers are simply suicides.

[Candor7]

It was far worse than what happened on 6th January 2021.

Yet when Republicans were fred upon by a Bernie Sanders nut, they did not shut down the capitol and put a fence around it.

REPUBLICAN LIVES MATTER

I think Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer should come out and play a little baseball.

[hardspunned]

Trump’s FBI. To illustrate the abject failure Trump was at picking his cabinet and administration, the Uniparty (D) communists are letting Trump’s man, Wray, continue as fascist interior chief.

[Guenevere]

Bttt

[Bratch]

FBI labeled Steve Scalise and GOP Assassination Attempt as ‘suicide by cop’ Not Domestic Terrorism or Political Violence

April 21, 2021 | Sundance 

Remember all those Democrat demands for the FBI to enhance their statistics and record-keeping to quantify threats?  Remember FBI Director Chris Wray using those FBI compiled statistics to say that “white nationalists” are the greatest threat?   Put those two issues together and consider….

….What value are statistical records when those who compile the records are politically motivated to mislabel the true origin of any attack?

Think about it.

Cue the visual demonstration:

WASHINGTON – A congressman who was on the baseball field during the 2017 shooting that nearly killed GOP Whip Steve Scalise says the FBI privately informed lawmakers it ruled the attack a “suicide by cop,” a designation he said downplayed the shooter’s apparently political motivation.

Rep. Brad Wenstrup (R-Ohio) revealed the previously undisclosed determination during a hearing of the House Intelligence Committee on Thursday, upbraiding FBI Director Christopher Wray and prompting several colleagues of both parties to pile on. He said FBI agents privately briefed the baseball team on Nov. 16, 2017 to deliver the controversial determination. (read more)

It doesn’t take much more than common sense to see the motives and agenda of a politically intent FBI at work here. A politically aligned bureaucratic system within the institution can downplay, and label things they do not like to see discussed, according to their own agenda.

It facilitates the leftist political agenda and objectives of the narrative engineers to downplay actual violence against their opposition.  Conversely, the statistical manipulation assists in advancing narratives that are based on overly exaggerated false claims.   Who benefits?… the real threats.

Real threats are downplayed because the institutions are structurally chasing priorities that don’t exist.  They are creating a false impression of risks and the result is the institution expends resources to… well, NASCAR racetracks where 13 FBI agents are dispatched to investigate a garage pull-down rope.

The FBI chases the invisible ghosts of ‘white supremists’ on NASCAR tracks; meanwhile, actual threats from Islamic extremists and Antifa are ignored because the manipulated statistics quantify the threat as “low risk”.

See how that works?

[RoosterRedux]

It's pretty hard to find people for government positions who are willing to stand up against the Woke Establishment.

Who would you have chosen?

[RandFan]

Trump should have cleaned house but a friend on twitter tells me that if he did they would have removed him one way or another.

It’s a theory anyway.

[Carl Vehse]

By their coverup classification (and its implicit warning to conservative politicians of how far the FBI is willing to go), the FBI has demonstrated themselves to be part of the conspiracy to assassinate GOP congressmen. The FBI is no longer to be trusted by Americans.

[teevolt]

The biggest disappointment’s of Trump admin were the DOJ and FBI. If he would’ve gotten those right, he’s still President.

[RandFan]

Should have fired Fauci too..

But i’m led to believe some people are untouchable

[Fester Chugabrew]

The FBI is clearly partisan. Big fat fed paychecks for a big fat bureaucracy are a thing to cherish and protect against the proponents of simple justice and limited government. We’ve known this for decades.

[bert]

Trump refused to fight, even for his political life. Trump believed that his superior ability to deal, to negotiate would allow him to win without fighting.

He was wrong. He lost

Historical analysis by a full blown trump supporter

[bray]

Time to defund the FBI.

[Lurker]

“Trust Wray.” Said the Qballs.

L

[RandFan]

Sigh... Many people were taken in by that.

[Lurker]

“Sigh... Many people were taken in by that.”

Many here still are taken in. What’s worse some are knowingly continuing the deception.

Qballs never give up the con.

L

[stockpirate]

The FBI and DOJ as other government institutions are completely and totally corrupt, totally