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A gunman opened fire at U.S. Congressmen and others who were gathered at a practice this morning for the Congressional Baseball Game. House Majority Whip Steve Scalise and at least four others were reportedly injured. The gunman, who has been identified by unnamed sources as James T. Hodgkinson III, was taken to a local hospital where he died from his injuries:
A gunman unleashed a barrage of gunfire Wednesday at a park in Alexandria, Va., as Republican members of Congress held a morning baseball practice, wounding at least five people, including House Majority Whip Steve Scalise (La.).
The suspected gunman is James T. Hodgkinson III, 66, from Illinois, according to multiple law enforcement sources. President Trump announced that the gunman, who was wounded in a shootout with officers, has died at an area hospital.
The wounded also included two Capitol Police officers and a congressional aide, according to one law enforcement official and witness accounts.
Congressman Scalise was shot in the hip and is in stable condition.
Hodgkinson's motive may have already been identified by the media:
A Facebook page belonging to a person with the same name includes pictures of Democratic presidential candidate, Bernie Sanders, and rhetoric against President Trump, including a post that reads: "Trump is a Traitor. Trump Has Destroyed Our Democracy. It's Time to Destroy Trump & Co."
Charles Orear, 50, a restaurant manager from St. Louis, said in an interview Wednesday that he became friendly with Hodgkinson during their work together in Iowa on Sanders's campaign. Orear said Hodgkinson was a passionate progressive and showed no signs of violence or malice toward others.
Also at LA Times, Reuters, The Atlantic, The Hill, and CNN.
(Score: 2) by edIII on Wednesday June 14 2017, @11:37PM (8 children)
You're right. All I have are the reports from the FBI and the U.S intelligence agencies. Not to mention a huge coverup over the current investigation with the person in charge being fired by the suspect being investigated. Just multiple high level people in the CIA and intelligence community telling us.
<sarcasm>No actual evidence, just mountains worth of smoke...........</sarcasm>
Technically, lunchtime is at any moment. It's just a wave function.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 14 2017, @11:57PM (4 children)
Mountains of smoke and you just act like it is true? Talk about cognitive dissonance pushing an agenda! We should only talk facts here. Like so many other narratives you're buying into this trope like a real rube. I bet you believe in the moon landings too...
But have you personally been to the moon? Its all a hoax! You have no proof we were there except easily doctored video!
Not to mention the earth is flat. Just look out your window, drive to the next state, still flat! Then there is the UN symbol, obviously showing a flat earth. And planes, hey all fly weird routes, but if you use the true flat shape of the earth then they are really just flying straight lines! Stop being a sheep.
And don't get me started on the lizard people.
(Score: 2) by edIII on Thursday June 15 2017, @01:48AM (3 children)
You're the rube that can't understand sarcasm tags, you stupid fuck.
As for evidence, you or I can't see it. We're not allowed. James Clapper, however, HAS SEEN THE FUCKING EVIDENCE.
I'm not pushing an agenda you fucking moron. I've waited for the FACTS, which are NATIONAL SECURITY and TOP SECRET at the moment. I would learn about it the same time you would, and that would be when the government is ready to disclose it. Reality Winner beat them to the punch by disclosing *some* of the evidence, but not all of it.
That's JAMES CLAPPER, a FORMER DIRECTOR OF NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE. Not some gone-full-retard AC on a niche website with less than 10,000 users. I don't agree with all of his positions (he's for backdoors in encryption), but the man has served his country with distinction. If you can easily dismiss his warnings, then you are a complete fucking moron. Dismissing mine, I can understand, but his? Utter stupidity.
You want more people? James Clapper isn't the only high level official crying foul, but one of many. All of them having security clearances. The people that have agendas are the ones conveniently ignoring the facts because they're not tired of "winning" yet.
Technically, lunchtime is at any moment. It's just a wave function.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 15 2017, @03:39AM (2 children)
Oh man you gotta chill. I was just messing with you a bit and tried to make it obvious with the conspiracy nonsense. I guess you could read that as saying your a conspiracy wacko... Sorry about that. But really, you need to meditate and stop letting people bait you emotionally. Gotta stay calm!
(Score: 2) by edIII on Thursday June 15 2017, @07:46PM (1 child)
Go fuck off and die in a fire. The only thing you make obvious with the conspiracy nonsense is that you may be an Infowars subscriber that believes Hillary is diddling little kids with a strap-on in the basement of a pizza parlor. Those fucking nuts are everywhere, and unsurprisingly, are Trumpanzees.
I'm not a conspiracy whacko when James Fucking Clapper and others in government are saying they've seen evidence and are raising the alarms. Only conspiracies I've ever talked about have been revealed to be true. All of those related to the NSA/FBI/CIA and their un-American activities.
Hard to be a conspiracy whacko when you keep getting proved right, and high level people in the government are leading the charge. Not somebody in a basement with tin foil on, as your characterization suggests.
Technically, lunchtime is at any moment. It's just a wave function.
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Thursday June 15 2017, @09:35PM
You mean the same James Clapper that lied to Congress (with impunity) about the existence of the NSA's police state surveillance system? Yeah, that guy's totally credible.
I'm glad you retain some faith in people in the federal government, but as for me I have practically none left. Even Elizabeth Warren, who had she run for President I would have bled for, has shown herself to be a farce after rolling over for Hillary.
Trump is an asshole, and everybody else in DC is an asshole, but at least with Trump we get to see the assholes really fighting each other. And with each wounding blow struck, we get to see the assholes suffer. The rest of the American people and the world have been suffering because of them for decades, so it's gratifying to see them join the party. I say we erect a barrier around the Beltway, throw running chainsaws in to them, and chant, "a million assholes enter, one asshole leave!"
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 15 2017, @12:30AM (2 children)
Except there was no investigation. You know this and yet you spread lies. I suspect you are a paid shill working to attempt to stir dissent.
You may be right about an upcoming civil war, but this time we won't lose.
(Score: 2) by edIII on Thursday June 15 2017, @01:54AM
Yes, there very much is an ongoing investigation, and I'm not spreading lies. If you want to get fucking cute about it, Comey said that Trump was not under criminal investigation, but that there also different kinds of investigations. He basically admitted that Trump could be an "unwitting accomplice", and that the FBI often investigates people in these contexts.
This isn't about investigating Trump as much as it is about investigating Russian interference in our election. At the moment it is centered on many individuals within the Trump campaign, but not Trump specifically at the moment.
That, and you have one hell of a logic failure. You can't fire somebody for investigating something if they aren't actually investigating something. Trump is on record as saying he fired Comey BECAUSE of the investigation.... but there is no investigation? Really? There are even reports he is considering firing Mueller, who is investigating it now. Is this one of those investigations, but not an investigation?
Technically, lunchtime is at any moment. It's just a wave function.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 15 2017, @03:42AM
The majority of US citizens are against you pal, not a chance of winning no matter how much toilet paper you've stockpiled