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NBC analyst demands Tucker Carlson, Lauren Boebert face 'consequences' for Club Q massacre
NBC News analyst Frank Figliuzzi demanded on Monday that Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) and Fox News host Tucker Carlson be held partially responsible for the attack at Club Q, an LGBT nightclub in Colorado Springs.
Wait, what?
Speaking on MSNBC, Figliuzzi encouraged the families of the Club Q victims to take action against people like Boebert and Carlson, whom Figliuzzi suggested are partially responsible for the tragedy.
"Prosecutors and police, they found quickly what they needed. That means they know this was a biased crime," Figliuzzi said. "This is likely since we've heard reports that the subject isn't cooperative with police, that means they likely found clear and convincing evidence on his devices."
Authorities have charged the suspected perpetrator with hate crimes, but accusations, of course, are not declarations of guilt. That is something that Figliuzzi, a trained lawyer and career FBI official, should know, yet he declared the crime "biased" anyway.
"If he's a consumer of the people we just rattled of — from Lauren Boebert to Tucker Carlson — let's get it out. Let's get it out at trial, let's expose it for what it is, name it, and shame it," Figliuzzi continued.
"He's a consumer of these people and those people should face civil consequences from the victims," he declared.
There is no evidence, in fact, that the perpetrator is a "consumer" of Boebert and Carlson.
\u201cMSNBC analyst Frank Figliuzzi calls for @LaurenBoebert, #Tucker Carlson, @FoxNews, and others to face charges in civil court for causing the mass shooting at the Colorado Springs gay nightclub.\n\nHe adds teaching "young children" about sex will "put a stop to hate."\u201d— Curtis Houck (@Curtis Houck) 1669067618
What about the law?
While Figliuzzi did not clarify what those "civil consequences" should be, the First Amendment protects Boebert, Carlson, and others who share their views about the LGBT agenda.
At any rate, neither of them have called for violence against the LGBT community.
And despite what progressive activists claim, disagreeing with the LGBT agenda is not the same thing as calling for violence against the LGBT community or directly inciting violence, which is unlawful.
Ironically, the same free speech principles that protect Boebert and Carlson also allow Figliuzzi to claim that the solution "to put a stop to hate" is to teach "young children in school" the LGBT agenda.
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Given all this evidence of partisan corruption at the Bureau, I was naturally apprehensive about my interview.MSNBC contributor says 'bipartsian commission' needed to vet presidential candidates, stop another Trump from winning
An MSNBC contributor on Thursday called for a "bipartisan commission" to vet presidential candidates and prevent someone like President Donald Trump from winning the White House ever again.
NBC News National Security Contributor Frank Figliuzzi, the former assistant director of the FBI, said Trump's tax returns as reported by the New York Times show he is "the most vulnerable president in our history" to compromise by foreign governments and is a national security threat. He believes the media and the 60 million people who voted for Trump in 2016 failed to properly vet him before he became president and the remedy is to have a bipartisan committee vet presidential candidates instead of the American people.
"He is the most vulnerable president in our history in terms of compromise and potential exposure to those who want to help him dig out of his financial pit in return for a price," Figliuzzi said of Trump in a segment discussing the president's tax returns.
Figliuzzi claimed the tax returns show how foreign governments could pressure Trump into making policy decisions that benefit their interests instead of the interests of the United States. He did not provide an example of a policy the president implemented that's benefitted foreign governments and harmed the United States.
"There's also another layer to this which is that when you're this entangled with Russia and the former Soviet bloc you're going to run smack into organized crime figures," Figliuzzi added.
"So there's too many gaps in the tax returns. There's too many questions. Why is this president paying more to foreign nations in taxes than he is to the United States? How does he cover his debt? Who's doing that for him? What's the Deutsche Bank connection? Why are there so many golf courses losing so much money and why the continued purchase of those properties?"
But President Trump is not "paying more to foreign nations in taxes than he is to the United States."
Berkeley professor Robert Reich recently made a similar claim, suggesting that the New York Times report on Trump's taxes shows he only paid $750 in federal taxes in 2017 but nearly $300,000 in taxes to foreign governments that same year.
In 2017, Trump paid $750 in federal taxes, but paid—$15,598 in Panama—$145,400 in India—$156,824 in the Philip… https://t.co/G0HWTsK4i5— Robert Reich (@Robert Reich)1601246734.0
The New York Times report does not show that. The Times, in fact, reported that Trump paid the U.S. Treasury $1 million in 2016 and $4.2 million for income taxes that he might owe in 2017. This does not account for property taxes, payroll taxes, real estate taxes, or any other non-income taxes that Trump and his businesses paid to the United States in the years the New York Times reported.
On the basis of the unproven claim that Trump's finances have made him vulnerable to foreign governments and a national security threat, Figluzzi suggested radical electoral reform is needed to make sure a candidate like Trump is never elected again.
"We've got to have a national discussion about how we vet a presidential candidate," Figliuzzi said. "We screwed this up. Whether it's the media not digging deeply enough, whether it's a time to have a discussion about a bipartisan committee that demands tax returns, make that a requirement, or exposes financial pictures for candidates."
"We got this wrong and this can't happen again," he concluded.
Watch:
MSNBC’s @FrankFigliuzzi1 proposes creating a "bipartisan commission" to vet presidential candidates to prevent anot… https://t.co/BS3englCGA— Tom Elliott (@Tom Elliott)1601560652.0
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