Dobbs: Shot Fired Outside My House Due To My Immigration Stance

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CNN’s Lou Dobbs said on his nationally syndicated radio show on Monday that a gunshot was fired at his home in New Jersey on Oct. 5 — and that he believes the incident is a result of his views on immigration.

Blaming “the lies of the ethnocentric interest groups” who are “all attacking me,” Dobbs said a shot was fired at his home — with his wife standing by a car 15 feet away.

“They want to destroy me, so they’re taking their best shot at it,” Dobbs said, adding that “a shot was fired at my house, where I live.”

Dobbs said he routinely receives threatening phone calls over his stance on immigration — “It’s become part of a way of life, all the anger, the hate, the vitriol” — but that the shooting ushers in “a different tone.”

We are engaged in nothing less, Dobbs said, than “a battle for the soul of this country.”

No one was injured and an investigation is reportedly underway.

Here’s the audio:

Editor’s Note: This post has been revised and added to since it was first published.

Late Update: Was the gunshot just an errant hunter’s bullet? Maybe.

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