MSNBC host Lawrence O’Donnell argued that U.S. military personnel, and not illegal immigrants, are a greater threat to America as instigators of domestic terrorism in a segment Thursday.
“The simple fact is, this country has suffered more deadly terrorism at the hands of American-born citizens who are veterans of the United States military than people who have crossed into this country at the southern border,” O’Donnell said. “It is very clear from the evidence that if you want to worry about terrorism in this country, the United States Army is a much bigger problem than the southern border.”
O’Donnell used examples of military veterans, including Timothy McVeigh, the domestic terrorist behind the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995, to argue that American veterans have perpetuated more violence than immigrants have in U.S. history.
“Timothy McVeigh parked a truck outside that building loaded with explosives in an act of homegrown American terrorism,” O’Donnell said. “Timothy McVeigh’s hatred of the American government was not tamed in any way by his service in the American military. So, too, with America’s latest terrorist attack in New Orleans on New Year’s Eve, with an American military veteran driving a pickup truck through a crowd to murder 14 people.”
“But when Donald Trump sees the type of terrorist attack that occurred in New Orleans, he doesn’t remember Timothy McVeigh and, instead, he blames the criminals that he imagines are crossing the southern border,” the MSNBC host continued.
“No one who has ever crossed the southern border, in the history of the existence of the southern border, has killed more people in this country than Timothy McVeigh, who was born in Lockport, New York, the northwest part of the state, into a White Roman Catholic American family with roots in this country that go back farther than Donald Trump’s roots in this country,” O’Donnell said. “The New Orleans terrorist, like Timothy McVeigh, reached the rank of sergeant in the United States Army.”
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O’Donnell’s disturbing comments came a day after 42-year-old Shamsud-Din Jabbar, a U.S. citizen who had converted to Islam, killed at least 14 people In New Orleans and wounded dozens more when he mowed down his victims with a truck that he rented. He then got out and opened fire with a rifle before being shot and killed by police.
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So I surmise from his latest diatribe er um well reasoned conclusion (insert eyeroll) the army should be disbanded.
It’s a wonder MSNBC hasn’t been shut down forever. It and its “stars” are completely irrelevant and always wrong, snide and disgusting!
O’Donnell wouldn’t dare to say so, but the greatest threat to our security is Islam. Remember all the Americans murdered by Muslims on 9/11 and the marines killed in the Beirut barracks bombing, to mention a couple.
“No one who has ever crossed the southern border, in the history of the existence of the southern border, has killed more people in this country than Timothy McVeigh, who was born in Lockport, New York, the northwest part of the state, into a White Roman Catholic American family with roots in this country that go back farther than Donald Trump’s roots in this country,” O’Donnell said. “The New Orleans terrorist, like Timothy McVeigh, reached the rank of sergeant in the United States Army.”4
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If you don’t think it’s coming then you are naive. Anyone who believes that many terrorists haven’t crossed into our country through the southern border is even more naive. They are merely waiting for their time to start their attacks. Lawrence O’Donnell should be fired for this tripe journalism, sorry, activism.
Wow, a whopping 3 instances of American soldiers spanning almost 30 years, but can’t take into account what illegals have done to this country in the last 50!