Former Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein backed up Texas Land Commissioner George P. Bush‘s statement that “white terrorism” is “a real and present threat” in the United States.
“George is right,” Rosenstein tweeted Sunday.
“Killing random civilians to spread a political message is terrorism,” he said. “FBI classifies it as domestic terrorism, but ‘white terrorism’ is more precise. Many of the killers are lone-wolf losers indoctrinated to hate through the internet, just like Islamic terrorists.”
The FBI has opened a investigation into the mass shooting Saturday in El Paso, Texas, as a possible hate crime.
An online manifesto showed the suspect was allegedly motivated by hatred of immigrants and Hispanics.
Bush, in his statement, focused on the alleged racist nature behind the attack.
“I proudly served in Afghanistan as a Naval officer where our mission was to fight and kill terrorists,” he wrote on Saturday.
“I believe fighting terrorism remains a national priority. And that should include standing firm against white terrorism here in the US. There have now been multiple attacks from self-declared white terrorists here in the US in the last several months. This is a real and present threat that we must all denounce and defeat.”
In statistics tweeted out by Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., mass shooting attacks are piling up in the United States, much more so than any where else, the website Law&Crime noted.
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