“The Intel On This Wasn’t 100 Percent”

Jim Burroway

December 8th, 2016

Pizzagate Shooter

Gee. Ya think?

Mr. Welch, the father of two daughters, said he woke up Sunday morning and told his family he had some things to do. He left “Smallsbury,” a nickname for his hometown, for the 350-mile drive to Washington with the intention of giving the restaurant a “closer look” and then returning home. He wanted to “shine some light on it.” As he made his way to Washington, he felt his “heart breaking over the thought of innocent people suffering.” Once he got to the pizzeria, there was an abrupt change of plans. Mr. Welch would not say why he took a military-style assault rifle inside the restaurant and fired it. According to court documents, Mr. Welch said he had come armed to help rescue the children.

“The intel on this wasn’t 100 percent,” he said. However, he refused to dismiss outright the claims in the online articles, conceding only that there were no children “inside that dwelling.”

The New York Times says that while Welch had at one time registered as a Republican, he said that he didn’t vote for either Trump or Clinton He did say that he was praying that Trump would take the country in “the right direction.” CBS News has more on his background:

Friends and family say he is a well-meaning father of two girls who wanted to be a firefighter. But he also unnerved some with his religious fervor and sometimes had trouble detaching himself from the internet.

In the weeks before his Washington arrest, there were other signs of turbulence. In late October, Welch struck a teenage pedestrian with his car in his hometown, requiring the boy to be airlifted to a hospital, according to a police report that said he wasn’t immediately charged. More recently, days before he drove to Washington, he was dropped from the rolls of a volunteer fire department.

eddie

December 9th, 2016

and there you have it – yet another crazy who talks to god and no doubt knows his son – personally.

SharonB

December 9th, 2016

Suspected mental illness. Hope they eval him and glad no one was hurt.

Joyce

December 9th, 2016

Sharon B – I think that’s the way this story needs to be told, and one of the dangers of the current political/social climate.

Lucrece

December 9th, 2016

Mental illness exists regardless of social/political climate.

Don’t give politicians such a hilariously inflated role in the errors of biological processes.

Chrissypoo

December 16th, 2016

Please don’t call this mental illness. It’s not.

It’s brain washing. By listening to right wing radio, conspiracy websites and by limiting his contact with opposing views, he basically would believe anything.

And he’s also another Trump supporter that won’t admit that he supported Trump. Right, you didn’t vote for either one. Is that what you are telling yourself now.

Ben in Oakland

December 17th, 2016

The idiot pled not guilty. Perhaps his defense will be, “but I heard it on the internet!”

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