Thursday, June 15, 2017

Why was the Alexandria shooter such a POS. Did his beliefs coincide with Leftism.

GOP baseball shooter’s wife says she’s a victim too

BELLEVILLE, Ill. — The wife of lefty lunatic gunman James Hodgkinson played the victim following her husband’s shooting at a Congressional baseball practice — saying Thursday she’s a victim, too.
“I just wish this would all go away I don’t deserve this, my daughters don’t deserve this… I’m sorry that he did this, but there’s nothing I can do about it,” Suzanne Hodgkinson told a scrum of reporters near her home.
The wife wouldn’t answer questions about her hubby’s extreme political views and instead tried to blame the pressures of family life, claiming her adopted daughter Tasha Knepper had just moved home with her two and half year old grandson and Hodgkinson “just wanted a break” when he went to D.C. in April to begin planning the attack.
“Tasha assumed it was because of them living there…. when your daughter returns home things kind of flip upside down, [the Hodgkinsons] were retired,” explained Knepper’s mother-in-law, Victoria Knepper, from her home in Saint Libory, Illinois, about 30 minutes east of Belleville.
Shortly after Tasha returned home with her son, Eli, Hodgkinson “just left” and went to Alexandria, Virginia where he lived in a van for two months before embarking on his manic shootout, Knepper said.
She added relations between Tasha and her father had always been strained and the two “did not have a good relationship” since she was adopted as a teenager.
“She just said she didn’t think he liked her,” Knepper said.
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“He was very to himself, very aloof… he didn’t show a lot of emotion to Eli… you’d think when your grandson is hugging you [you’d show some some emotion],” Knepper said.
News reports surfaced Thursday that a previous foster child of the Hodgkinson’s had committed suicide by self-immolation and another child had been abused by Hodgkinson and taken away from him.
There were other signs that something was off with Hodkinson before he left — Suzanne said her husband of thirty years “made preparations” and “sold everything he owned” to get ready for his trip.
Still, she did not realize anything was wrong.
“I was shocked,” she said.

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