CAL THOMAS COMMENTARY MAY 8, 2025
DON’T LET ANYONE FOOL YOU. IN WASHINGTON, AS IN MOST PLACES, IDEOLOGY, OR WORLD VIEW, PLAYS A PART IN ALMOST EVERY DECISION.
REMEMBER THE BASEBALL FIELD SHOOTING IN IN ALEXANDRIA, VIRGINIA 2017 THAT NEARLY TOOK THE LIFE OF CONGRESSMAN STEVE SCALISE. THE FBI CLAIMED THE SHOOTER, JAMES HODGKINSON, 66, WHO DIED IN A SHOOTOUT WITH POLICE, HAD BEEN TRYING TO COMMIT “SUICIDE BY COP.”
BUT A SCATHING REPORT BY A HOUSE COMMITTEE SAYS IDEOLOGY, MEANING HATRED OF REPUBLICANS, MOTIVATED THE SHOOTER, WHO HAD A LIST OF SIX REPUBLICANS HE INTENDED TO MURDER THAT DAY AS MEMBERS PRACTICED FOR AN ANNUAL CHARITY GAME WITH DEMOCRATS.
THE REPORT SAYS THE FBI “PREDETERMINED” THAT HODGKINSON’S MOTIVES WERE “SUICIDE BY COP” RATHER THAN A “PREMEDITATED ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT ON REPUBLICAN CONGRESSMEN BY A RADICAL, LEFT-WING POLITICAL EXTREMIST.”
THE WASHINGTON TIMES REPORTED ON THE REPORT, BUT NOT THE WASHINGTON POST OR OTHER MEDIA BECAUSE OF THEIR WORLD VIEW.
COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN RICK CRAWFORD, AN ARKANSAS REPUBLICAN, SAID THE FBI ACTED WITH “A COMPLETE DISREGARD AND LACK OF INVESTIGATIVE INTEGRITY.” WHOEVER HEARD OF SUCH THINGS IN WASHINGTON? I’M CAL THOMAS.
