In the spring of 2017, just months after Trump was sworn in for his first term, a crazed gunman targeted Congressional Republicans at a baseball game and seriously injured House Whip Steve Scalise, among others, before being taken down by Capitol Police, who were only there because Scalise’s position required a security detail.
The shooter, James Hodgkinson, was described as a Bernie Sanders campaign volunteer and a Rachel Maddow “superfan” which explains why the story of the shooting completely disappeared from the media in a matter of days.
A new report from the House reveals that the FBI completely ‘butchered’ their probe of the shooting, downplaying the shooter’s anti-Republican motives.
This entire incident, from the moment it happened, was mishandled and misreported.
The New York Post reports:
FBI ‘butchered’ 2017 congressional baseball shooting probe, downplayed anti-GOP motives of gunman, blistering report concludes
The FBI botched its investigation of the 2017 congressional baseball shooting — downplaying the gunman’s anti-GOP motives despite having handwritten evidence, a blistering House report found.
The House Judiciary Committee, Intelligence Committee and Intelligence Subcommittee on Oversight & Investigation released the scathing, unclassified report on its findings Tuesday after combing through roughly 3,000 case file documents it was given last month on the attack that wounded six, including current House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La.), and led to the death of gunman James T. Hodgkinson…
Shortly after Hodgkinson’s June 14, 2017, attack on a Republican practice session for the congressional baseball game in suburban Alexandria, Va., the FBI wrote up an executive intelligence briefing that concluded he wanted to commit “suicide by cop.”
Four years later, in 2021, the FBI abruptly changed its determination — without new evidence, according to Tuesday’s report — to conclude that Hodgkinson’s attack was actually motivated by domestic violent extremism.
This just goes to show how badly a change in leadership was needed.
The FBI being corrupted by partisans who play politics with law enforcement to enable democrat messaging is the number one requirements for @FBIDirectorKash and @PamBondi to excise and prevent from ever happening again. https://t.co/JhH2A333gt
— Fusilli Spock (@awstar11) May 6, 2025
“The guy had a hit list in his pocket,” Jordan said. “[Former FBI director James] Comey, [former FBI deputy director Andrew] McCabe, [former FBI director Christopher] Wray, they all knew it was domestic terrorism, but that didn’t fit their narrative.” https://t.co/Kd97vW2mmV
— Mary Ladd (@Mary_Ladd_IL) May 6, 2025
Imagine if the shooter had been a conservative activist and Sean Hannity “superfan” who tried to kill Democrats. The media would have covered the story non-stop for years as proof of Republican ‘extremism.’
