mateenhillary

There was just something about Hillary that made this monster feel like she was someone he could support. I wonder what that is?

If the scumbag was a Trump supporter it would have been a nonstop headline from now until the election. And the only reason we know is because his friend at the mosque who reported him to the FBI wrote about it in his important op/ed for the Washington Post. The conservative blogs and news sources did a good job covering the news, but as for the legacy media: crickets.

There’s some Trump bashing in the WaPo piece, which is what they were probably excited about, but imagine their chagrin when they saw his little gem about Mateen supporting Hillary and realized how bad it would be if they asked him to remove it, or edited it out? Yeah, I would have been fun to see that existential moment amongst WaPos snot-nosed “journalists.”

Via WaPo.

…I was the one who told the FBI about Omar Mateen…

Immediately after Moner’s attack, news reports said that American officials didn’t know anything about him; I read that they were looking for people to give them some background. So I called the FBI and offered to tell investigators a bit about the young man. It wasn’t much – we hadn’t been close – but I’m an American Muslim, and I wanted to do my part. I didn’t want another act like that to happen. I didn’t want more innocent people to die. Agents asked me if there were any other local kids who might resort to violence in the name of Islam. No names sprang to mind.

After my talk with the FBI, I spoke to people in the Islamic community, including Omar, about Moner’s attack. I wondered how he could have radicalized. Both Omar and I attended the same mosque as Moner, and the imam never taught hate or radicalism. That’s when Omar told me he had been watching videos of Awlaki, too, which immediately raised red flags for me. He told me the videos were very powerful…

After speaking with Omar, I contacted the FBI again to let them know that Omar had been watching Awlaki’s tapes. He hadn’t committed any acts of violence and wasn’t planning any, as far as I knew. And I thought he probably wouldn’t, because he didn’t fit the profile: He already had a second wife and a son. But it was something agents should keep their eyes on. I never heard from them about Omar again, but apparently they did their job: They looked into him and, finding nothing to go on, they closed the file.

Omar and I continued to have infrequent conversations over the next few years. I last saw him at a dinner at his father’s house in January. We talked about the presidential election and debated our views of the candidates that were running – he liked Hillary Clinton and I liked Bernie Sanders. This banter continued through texts and phone calls for several months.

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