Jesus christ almighty these fucking Republicans:
Knowing that Scalise and several others were wounded, but not knowing much else about the shooting, Collins went on WBEN radio and rhetorically took aim at Democrats.
“I can only hope that the Democrats do tone down the rhetoric,” Collins said on the radio station. “The rhetoric has been outrageous – the finger-pointing, just the tone and the angst and the anger directed at Donald Trump, his supporters. Really, then, you know, some people react to things like that. They get angry as well. And then you fuel the fires.”
Saying that political rhetoric was becoming too heated, Collins added: “Maybe this is a wake-up call. I’m not saying it will be. But let’s hope we could disagree on a more polite, conversational basis and not do things like what they did at my office a couple weeks ago.”
Collins then noted that protesters held a “die-in” at his office to show their opposition to the House Republican health bill.
The last thirty years never fucking happened and history started on 20 January 2017. We just dreamed this shit:
Rep. Chris Collins (R-NY), the first House Republican to endorse Trump, told MSNBC’s Steve Kornacki that he didn’t agree with Sen. John McCain’s (R-AZ) condmenation of Trump’s comments. Rather, Collins said he felt Clinton was using the Khan family for political gain.
“At this point, 12 years later, Mr. Khan has decided to enter the fray, attack Mr. Trump in a very inappropriate way when, in fact, it’s Hillary Clinton that ignores the First, Second and Tenth Amendments,” he said. “At that point, I can’t blame Mr. Trump for saying, I’m going to defend my integrity and my understanding of the Constitution.”
Collins went on to point out that Clinton supported the Iraq War, a position Trump repeatedly attacked her for. He then cast Khan as an “attack dog” for Clinton and said that he uses his late son as a “shield” from criticism.
“He’s become Hillary’s attack dog, and every time Donald Trump will say something, he puts up the shield, if you will, of the loss of his son,” he said.
“Mr. Khan is saying I’m immune from anyone criticizing me because my son died in a very heroic loss to the family and also in service of the country,” he continued. “But today he’s taken on a political role as an attack dog for Hillary Clinton, and I think, in that regard, he’s got to take what comes back at him.”
Chris Collins was the first member of congress to endorse Trump.