How deep does this go?
As Front Page Magazine already documented, Elias Rodriguez, the D.C. shooter, was part of a network of radical leftist and anti-Israel groups some of which have publicly come out in support of his crimes.
One of those groups had ties Rep. Rashida Tlaib. But now it turns out that the shooter’s family also had ties to another radical member of Congress who hates Israel and America almost as much as she does.
The father of the terror suspect accused of gunning down two soon-to-be-engaged Israeli Embassy staffers at the Capital Jewish Museum was honored by a far-left member of Congress with an invitation to President Trump’s joint address this past March, The Post has exclusively learned.
“Eric Rodriguez was our guest during the President’s Joint Speech to Congress, but we don’t know his family,” a spokesperson for Rep. Jesús “Chuy” García (D-Ill.) told The Post Thursday night.
Rodriguez also appeared in a Service Employees International Union video that same day, and said he was an Iraq War vet and an employee with the Veterans Affairs Department, the New York Times reported.’
SEIU is a radical leftist union. It’s also anti-Israel and had demanded that Israel stop attacking Hamas.
Even stranger…
A worker at a shop near Eric Rodriguez’s Chicago home confirmed he approached the clerk, asking for a translation of an Arabic-language article about his son and the shooting on Thursday.
… that one sends off all sorts of red flags.
But back to Rep. Chuy Garcia who is for BDS, against Israel, for an arms embargo on Israel, accused the Jewish State of atrocities and demanded a ‘Palestinian’ speaker at the DNC. After the murders, Garcia put out a statement condemning the attack, but if a right-wing congressman had invited the father of a white supremacist mass shooter to an event, the media would be asking questions. It’s not going to do that here, but we ought to. Maybe this is a coincidence, but maybe it reflects another network, one that is embedded in a somewhat more ‘mainstream’ Left.
somehistory says
As far as I have been able to ascertain by reading the *news,* the father has said nothing about the horror his son has caused. No “I’m sorry” or anything similar.
And “chuy” may be far more *connected* to terror than he would like the public….and those who voted for him….to know.
rick says
to some history: A simple observation about no apologies from the father but a meaningful one that I haven’t observed on any reporting about these murders. And this was a guy chosen by a democrat congressman to be the honored and invited guest to a Trump speech before congress. That congressman who invited him, Rep. Chuy Garcia, should be questioned by the FBI as well. Too coincidental.
somehistory says
Thank you, Rick.
The murderer was a known member of blm, so that should have raised some flags, some questions, etc. before the father was invited to the speech. And it probably would have had he been invited by a ‘friend’ of Israel, instead of the ‘chuy’ ….an enemy.
It’s really no wonder that the dems remained seated when Mr. Trump was speaking about the victims of terrorism and crimes by illegals.
And I agree. The FBI should be questioning the family and the political connections, esp “chuy.” Put them all on the grill.
rick says
Unless you get e-mails from pro-Israel networks you will never learn these facts. Inviting the father of a terrorist murderer and a pro-Hamas radical to a Trump speech to Congress is not a small item to be ignored. When shooters attack schools or other venues in the US, there is always an indepth investigation of the immediate family of the shooter. But when an American terrorist kills Jewish or Christian pro-Israel people at a Jewish museum event, that seems not be done. Will there be an FBI investigation of the immediate family of the murderous shooter? We’ll see.
Bret says
His own father obviously radicalized the son, especially seeing his father receive 5 minutes of fame from the radical left. Hopefully his fame will be a conviction, a short time in prison ending with an execution !!
James Lincoln says
We will all likely find out that the apple does not fall far from the tree…
Eve of War says
THIS INCIDENT should be THE red line in the sand … a high-level murder, in DC’s cultural district, which was, WITHOUT QUESTION, a TARGETED KILLING (to the event from whence the murder victims were exiting and location, at least), a premeditated/obviously part of a political network (shooter’s family, associates, etc.) with no reticence about supporting/funding/inciting murderous violence.
This attack is part of a CLEAR TREND, now. The Left and the Islamists have stopped talking.
They now choose what they have done in the rest of the world when they want to get their way… they shoot first and “talk” later. Or, maybe no talking just a continuation of the violence and threats of violence.
The Us is far down the road headed to where Europe has been for a l-o-n-g time.
The FBI is worthless on the issue of the Islamic networks (has been worthless since Obama administration purged all the good counter-terrorism with specific knowledge on Islamic networks…like Phil Haney, etc.) Pam Bondi, Ed Martin at the DOJ need to quickly prioritze *locating the members of this network this network, *question/gather evidence, *arrest, *indict, *try in court (NOT WITH A LEFTIST JUDGE, *sentence AND PUNISH!
Time is up for playing “nice nice” no matter who you are (like a member of Congress or some crony friend with money and bad ideology) !
Arrest. Prosecute. Incarcerate/ or death penalty (for direct sentence of First degree Murder).