Ex-GOP Rep Warns Obama, BLM To ‘Watch Out’ After Dallas Shootings

Rep.-elect Joe Walsh, R-Ill. speaks to the media during a news conference at the GOP headquarters on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Nov. 17, 2010. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
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A former Tea Party congressman from Illinois sent a series of tweets on Thursday night blaming the fatal police shootings in Dallas on President Barack Obama and declaring a war on “black lives matter punks.”

Former Rep. Joe Walsh (R-IL), who now hosts a nationally syndicated far-right radio show, posted a tweet warning that “Real America” was coming after Obama and Black Lives Matter activists at around midnight.

The post has since been deleted, and Walsh posted another tweet shortly later insisting he wasn’t “calling for violence,” just for people to “defend our cops.”

As of Friday morning, his Twitter feed was still overflowing with posts blaming the president’s “words” and “BLM’s deeds” for the attack on law enforcement at the end of a Dallas Black Lives Matter protest. The attack killed five officers and wounded seven others. Two civilians were also injured in the attack.

Walsh blamed “2 uneducated black thugs” for the shootings, though no identifying information about who the suspects were or how many were involved has yet been made public.

He also said that liberals “did this” and that the media “fans the meme of bad, racist Cops.”

As Mic editor Slade Sohmer pointed out, Donald Trump’s eldest son followed Walsh on Twitter as he sent out this flood of posts. Donald Trump Jr. even retweeted one of Walsh’s posts linking to an article on conservative site Hypeline headlined “Minutes after Dallas shooting #BLM radicals call for death of cops on Twitter.”

The protest in Dallas was organized to protest the fatal police shootings of two black men this week.

This post has been updated.

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