According to his Facebook page, Hodgkinson was a fervent supporter of Sanders, the feisty independent who nearly defeated Hillary Clinton previous year in a tough fight for the Democratic White House nomination.
A Facebook page belonging to a James T. Hodgkinson shows him as politically active, with several photos of former presidential candidate Bernie Sanders and President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Lawmaker Jeff Duncan said he was leaving the practice when he was approached by a man he later learned was the shooter, who asked if the team was Republican or Democrat before heading toward the field. "He was just a very calm, rational person, I thought", he said.
He says that "violence of any kind is unacceptable in our society and I condemn this action in the strongest possible terms".
The gunman's brother told The New York Times that the man was upset about Trump's election and recently went to Washington to protest, but Michael Hodgkinson said he didn't know why the man stayed in the area.
Sue Hodgkinson spoke to reporters Thursday outside her IL home. He had run out of money, his wife told reporters.
House Speaker Paul Ryan addressed lawmakers today.
"Let's let this tragedy bring us together as Americans and realize that the political rhetoric and the rhetorical hate speech we see in the news media and we see it on social media... has to stop", Doyle said.
None of that stopped some conservatives from concluding that Hodgkinson was aiming to injure Republicans specifically, and that he was driven by a liberal culture that glorifies violence against GOPers.
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Hill's reference is to a controversial production of Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar" by the Delacorte Theater in Central Park. But Slater said authorities were still working to determine a motive and had no indication Hodgkinson knew about the baseball practice ahead of time. "(Bernie Sanders & Democratic Socialism)", tweeted Ann Coulter.
"Trump is a Traitor", he wrote on Facebook pushing a Change.org petition for an independent investigation. He joined a series of Facebook groups that spread biting political cartoons and nasty memes and frequently attacked the president from behind the keyboard.
James Thomas Hodgkinson, the 66-year-old home inspector from Bellville, Illinois, who was killed Wednesday after firing on Republican congressmen practicing for a charity baseball event, appears to have channeled a lifetime of family trauma and personal failure into political rage.
Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe, a Democrat, echoed Davis' sentiment.
"I am sickened by this despicable act", he said. "He was more on the really progressive side of things".
But McAuliffe also mentioned that "there are too many guns on the streets", a common theme for gun control advocates in the wake of attacks like these involving guns.
"While the president would like to attend the game and show his support for all of these courageous public servants", he said, "he has been advised that there is not enough time to follow Secret Service protocols". "What we just saw here is one of the bad side effects of someone not exercising those rights properly".
Cramer's comments echoed others by House members of both parties Thursday. That Hodgkinson was an outspoken critic of Trump makes it even harder to keep away from politics.
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