Newt Gingrich, Donald Trump Jr. rush to blame Kathy Griffin and "the left" for baseball shooting

[DonViejo]

WEDNESDAY, JUN 14, 2017 12:36 PM EDT

Newt Gingrich, Donald Trump Jr. rush to blame Kathy Griffin and “the left” for baseball shooting

Republican Rep. Steve King traveled to the crime scene to cast blame for the shooting: "It’s coming from the left"

CHARLIE MAY

It didn’t take long for the tragic shooting at a Republican Congressional baseball practice on Wednesday morning to turn into a partisan blame game. Before the details of the incident were fully clear notable Republicans were quick to jump to conclusions that satisfied their partisan views.

Nearly an hour before local police provided their first official statement, White House senior counselor Kellyanne Conway retweeted an unverified account citing claims that the shooter had asked if those playing baseball were Republicans or Democrats.

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President Donald Trump’s son, Don Trump Jr., took his outrage to Twitter as well and blamed so-called New York elites who have glorified the assassination of the president.



Right-wing Iowa Republican Rep. Steve King did not attend Wednesday’s practice but traveled to the baseball field after the shooting to tell the gathered media that “the violence is appearing in the streets, and it’s coming from the left.”

On Fox News Rep. Rodney Davis R-Ill., said “political terrorism” in “24-hour news cycle” and “on Twitter” was partially to blame for the tragic incident.

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[Initech]

1. God damn them to hell.

[Eliot Rosewater]

5. Trump and Putin are going to profit tremendously if we start shooting each other.

It is their plan.

Putin will actually roll on in and take over at that point, could be before the end of summer.

GOP is on record wanting to put poor people in the streets and to die in many cases, this is their goal.


As to legendary pieces of SHIT like the asses mentioned in this story, they LIVE for this, they cant WAIT to see liberals and brown people dead in the streets.

[Zoonart]

6. X100000000

Like all of the images of Obama lynched? Like leading rallies with Lock her up and not intervening when the chant became kill her?
Like calling for second amendment solutions?

[pangaia]

2. Tell a lie and repeat and repeat and repeat

and repeat and repeat and repeat and repeat and repeat and repeat and repeat and repeat..

and then it becomes accepted truth...

I have NO IDEA how to fight this and win....

[chelsea0011]

3. They all really suck for pushing blame especially unfounded blame....

[pangaia]

4. Could this be the 2017 Gulf of Tonkin non-event ?

[Vinca]

7. There might not be such an event if there weren't 3 guns for every citizen in this country.

IMO, Congressional Republicans just learned what average Americans live with every day. You can't go to the grocery store or a restaurant with total confidence a nut with a gun won't appear.

[angstlessk]

8. Where was the shooters sword to decapitate herr trump?...and MORESO...

trump playing baseball???? Not even likely!

[underpants]

9. Limbaugh was full on this today

All the hatred from the left and the vile language used about Trump and Republicans this was bound to happen.

[JHB]

10. Does this mean Newt and Rush are taking responsibility...

...for Tim McVeigh?

Bill O'Reilly taking responsibility for that guy who shot up a Unitarian church because they were liberals?

Sean Hannity taking responsibility for that pair of Bundy Ranch stand-offers who killed police officers?

Naaaah. They don't "do" consistency.

[Fatemah2774]

11. I don't mean to offend...

Violence to anyone is tragic. The sadness for the victims, their families and loved ones is one of deep hurt and pain. However, blaming others who were not affiliated with that tragedy brings on lynch mobs, and is a gross miscarriage of justice.

I regret Scalise being shot. I do not regret that his views differ from mine as a transgender woman of color. He may receive my sympathy, but he does not receive my support of his politics. The shooter is wrong to use a gun to achieve his ends. That also is not my way. As a Muslim during Ramadhan, we are not allowed to kill or harm others during this month.

I can express sympathy to the victim, and outrage against the shooter whose political inclinations may be closer to mine.

In this way, I am a human being. And, although my country loves violence, the best of us choose another way.