‘The 99 percent are getting pushed around’: Congress baseball gunman John Hodgkinson fumes about the ‘one per cent’ in newly unearthed TV interview from 2011
James Hodgkinson opened fire on GOP lawmakers in Virginia on Wednesday
He injured four, including whip Steve Scalise, before being shot dead
In archive footage he complains about the ‘1%’ pushing around the ‘99%’
The footage was filmed at a 2011 Occupy St Louis protest in Illinois
Hodgkinson had long been angry about income inequality and conservatism
He also had a history of violence, including punching a female neighbor
By JAMES WILKINSON
DAILYMAIL.COM
15 June 2017
James Hodgkinson, the shooter who critically injured Majority House Whip Steve Scalise at a Virginia ballpark on Wednesday, spoke to the media about his anger at rich elites, it has emerged.
Video footage from an Occupy event in downtown St Louis, Illinois, in 2011 shows Hodgkinson complaining about being oppressed by the wealthy.
‘The 99 per cent are getting pushed around and the one per cent don’t give a damn. So, we got to speak up for the whole country,’ Hodgkinson told Fox 2 News.
Hodgkinson, a rabid anti-Trump campaigner, moved from St Louis to Virginia two months ago, and had been living out of his car before the shooting.
His Facebook account was filled with furious invective about right-wing politicians, and messages hailing left-wing heroes Bernie Sanders and Rachel Maddow. He had also helped with Sanders’ 2016 presidential bid.
His posts included remarks such as ‘Trump is guilty and should go to prison’ and ‘Trump is a traitor. Trump has destroyed our Democracy. It’s time to destroy Trump & Co.’
Family members said he was distraught after Trump’s victory in the election, and had been living out of gym bags in Alexandria after he left St Louis.
But even before the election he had been expressing dissent about income inequality and the direction of America in local newspapers and online.
In 2011, he praised Occupy protesters in New York and Boston who he said ‘are tired of our do-nothing Congress doing nothing while our country is going down the tubes.’
And in 2012, he wrote: ‘I have never said “life sucks,” only the policies of the Republicans.’
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