Virginia Shooting Suspect Was Distraught Over Trumps Election, Brother Says.

[elleng]

'The man suspected of opening fire on Republican members of the congressional baseball team early Wednesday morning was distraught over the election of President Trump and traveled to Washington in recent weeks to protest, his brother said on Wednesday.

The suspect, James Thomas Hodgkinson, 66, of Belleville, Ill., died in a Washington hospital after a shootout with the police.

“I know he wasn’t happy with the way things were going, the election results and stuff,” his brother, Michael Hodgkinson, said in a telephone interview shortly after he received the news on Wednesday. He added that he was not close to his brother and had not been aware why he remained in Washington.

“Totally out of the blue,” he added, saying that his brother was engaged in politics but otherwise led a normal life.'>>>

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/14/us/politics/virginia-shooting-suspect-james-hodgkinson.html?

[exboyfil]

1. And your idiot brother just made the situation worse

[JI7]

2. and yet he encouraged people to vote against clinton and for stein

Which pretty much meant more support for trump.

Fuck him. He should have killed himself.

[angstlessk]

4. He basically did kill himself...but not soon enough

[FarPoint]

15. Hahaha...

Well, that is one way to look at it.. I understand.

[Gothmog]

26. A vote for Jill Stein was a vote for trump

[hamsterjill]

3. Why do people say shit like this?

Good grief! Can the brother just keep quiet long enough to let the investigation conclude? Is he SO interested in a moment in the spotlight that he can't just say "no comment".

The best advice for anyone contacted by a media outlet when a situation has occurred is to say "no comment". You can always say more at a later time, but you can NEVER retract what you have already said.

[angstlessk]

5. The guy was a lone insane gunman the reight will try to make hay

but the sun ain't shinning...it's the GUNS, STUPID!

[DemocratSinceBirth]

7. It's get worse or better depending on your viewpoint.

His friend just said on CNN he did it because he was fed up with politics.

[Blue_true]

13. The view that is being pushed that all politicians are corrupt and on the take lead to bad ends.

It gives to people that are anti social a cause. And if those people are unbalanced, that cause typically lead to violence.

[still_one]

8. He was interviewed and he said what he thought. This was an individual act, by a lone gunman, and

anyone with half a brain, and minimum critical thinking skills knows that the perpetrator had a distorted irrational perspective

Whether someone should comment or not to the press, that is a personal decision

[hamsterjill]

11. Yes, it is a personal decision, but the question always is, "Is it a wise decision".

n/t

[onenote]

14. what made it an unwise decision in this instance?

[still_one]

16. I don't think it matters in the whole scheme of things. It was an individual act

[mythology]

17. For the same reason people here speculate

People need to assign a neat easy reason as soon as they can.

[hamsterjill]

19. I think you've hit the nail on the head.

The brother also probably felt a need to say "I'm not like him".

As we both know - there is NO neat easy reason to these things.

[FSogol]

27. The sitcom-ization of America. Everything should be wrapped up neatly at the end of the half hour.

I don't get it either.

[Igel]

18. Think of it as a disclosure

by a less-than-anonymous source in the interests of openness and transparency.

For those who hate secrecy when an investigation is being conducted. There are a lot of those sorts out there these days. People who divulge information that is sensationalistic because "no comment" is so boring, and those who feed off of it and think "no comment" must mean a government cover-up.

[jmg257]

21. Maybe he felt it was the truth? His bother is dead what is there to hide?

[TNLib]

6. So why the hell did he vote for Stein

but I see these types all over my fb. Friends and family that constantly post anti trump anti gop but hated Hillary and voted third party or just didn't vote.

Makes me sick

[still_one]

12. The actions the shooter did would not be viewed by most people as normal, and most would question

his mental stability

With that perspective in mind when you ask the question why did he vote for Stein? I think the perpetrators ability to think critically, and rationally was impaired.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

9. Lots of us were distraught. We marched and called our congresspeople.

[geek tragedy]

10. he also beat up his girlfriend about a decade ago.

this man had a proclivity to violence that he indulged.

Millions were distraught when Tr*mp won. We didn't become terrorists.

[get the red out]

20. So are a lot of us

But we aren't losing it and shooting people.

[tblue37]

22. If he didn't want Trump elected, he should have voted for Hillary. nt

[Blue_Tires]

23. We all were distraught, some probably moreso than he was...

We still managed to NOT SHOOT PEOPLE...

[BainsBane]

25. Exactly

[BainsBane]

24. When people don't vote for the Democrat

the Republican gets elected. That's how it works. What did he suppose would happen when he spread his never Hillary stuff?

[MFM008]

28. look alot of us are

furious and despondent and disgusted and crazed about maggots election.
Our family was damn near suicidal.
I got a stomach ulcer for Gods sake.
You want to deal with it through the ballot box (despite Russian interference).
You want your congress person to stand up for what you believe in.
But you want rosebuds not bullets.

[LittleBlue]

29. At this point I'm afraid to know if he posted on DU

[WePurrsevere]

30. If he had he probably would have been booted as a troll...

He didn't like Obama and was outspoken about how much he hated the DNC and Hillary. Those factors would have come out quickly here and not exactly earned him a key to DU.