GOP Rep.: Obama Reaped ‘What He Has Sowed’ In Dallas Shooting (AUDIO)

UNITED STATES - MAY 19: Rep. Robert Hurt, R-Va., leaves the House Republican Conference meeting at the Capitol Hill Club in Washington on Tuesday, May 19, 2015. (Photo By Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call) (CQ Roll Call via AP Images)
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A Republican congressman from Virginia said Tuesday that President Barack Obama has reaped “what he has sowed” in the slayings of five police officers during a peaceful protest last week in Dallas.

In an interview on “The John Fredericks Show” first flagged by Right Wing Watch, Rep. Robert Hurt (R-VA) said that Obama’s support of the Black Lives Matter movement was just “Chicago-style politics.” Hurt went on to say that Obama was using racial discrimination to divide the country and that he feels that the Dallas shooting was Obama getting what he had coming to him.

“He has drawn this narrative for political purposes and now we’re seeing him reap what he has sowed,” Hurt said.

“He has sown this racial —he has fanned these flames, I think he has in many ways highlighted these things in ways that I don’t think are fair or right, and now we’re seeing the fruit of this,” he added.

The congressman, who is not running for re-election, then referenced Obama’s scheduled appearance at a memorial service for the five officers who were killed. He suggested that in light of Obama’s comments on race and the police, families of the slain officers may not want to see him speak at the memorial.

“You know, I’m glad he’s going to Dallas,” Hurt said. “I hope that he’s of some comfort to the families, I kind of wonder how well he will be received, considering he, I think, in many ways is responsible for fanning the flames of this anti-police feeling. And I know if I were a family member, I’m not sure I would want to be spending a lot of time with him.”

Hurt’s comments mark the second time a GOPer has used the same biblical reference in the wake of recent violence. Following the Orlando nightclub massacre, Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick tweeted and quickly deleted a tweet including a Bible verse that read man “reaps what he sows.”

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  1. Virginia Goopers are still pissed about the Civil War. That’s not hyperbole.

  2. Obama is still alive and well, unlike the Dallas police officers. So, I fail to see what this numbnut is talking about.

  3. I’m so sick of these motherfuckers. Seven years of unbridled, across the board racist bullshit, and they keep blaming Obama. A man who, by the way, has never given a public retort of any kind, showing himself to be the only Christian in the room.

    Since they love picking what they like from the bible so much, here’s one: “And the devil will be loosed for a little while.” Well guess, you putrid fucks: that devil is you. Your bile, your lies, your filth. It just never ends, like pea-green soup from Linda Blair’s mouth.

  4. “The congressman, who is not running for re-election…”

    'nuff said

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