Gohmert: FBI’s Refusal to Label Scalise Shooting Terrorism Suggests DOJ Compromised by Obama Holdovers
Chris Menahan
InformationLiberation
Jun. 22, 2017
Texas Republican Rep Louie Gohmert said the FBI’s refusal to label James Hodgkinson’s attempted mass assassination of Republican congressman as terrorism indicates “there are too many officials from the previous administration in the DOJ,” The Daily Caller reports.
From The Daily Caller:
Texas Republican Rep. Louie Gohmert unloaded on the media and Obama-era holdovers at the Department of Justice on Wednesday after the FBI announced that it was treating last week’s attempted mass assassination of Republican congressmen as “assault” rather than terrorism.
Gohmert said that the FBI’s refusal to label the attack as terrorism indicates that there are too many officials from the previous administration in the DOJ and charged that the left-wing shooter, James T. Hodgkinson, was conditioned by “hate-filled propaganda” from the media and some Democrats.
“It is absurd to state that the shooting in Alexandria last week was, at a minimum, a hate-filled attempt at murder. This horrendous crime was clearly a premeditated, attempted multiple or mass murder,” Gohmert said in a written statement to The Daily Caller. “Sadly, the shooter was a product of the relentless conditioning of hate-filled propaganda pushed by the so-called mainstream media and certain supporters of the Democratic party.”
“This vicious rhetoric encourages followers to incite violence, which in and of itself is a crime. It sounds like there are still far too many holdovers in the Department of Justice from the Obama years, who detest Republicans,” Gohmert added.
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