Ex-congressman Joe Walsh stands by ‘Watch out Obama’ tweet

Former Illinois Rep. Joe Walsh told President Obama and Black Lives Matter protesters to “watch out” in a later-deleted tweet. “That’s insane and stupid and wrong”.

This is now war.

A former IL congressman said Friday he’s standing by a Twitter post he sent after the fatal shooting of police officers in Dallas in which he said President Barack Obama should “Watch out” and “Real America is coming after you”.

Twitter temporarily suspended Walsh’s account, until such time as the original tweet was deleted, something that Walsh claims he did not do, but the tweet was deleted nonetheless.

And to Charles’s point where he says, I think, Charles, you’re exhausted sometimes from trying to educate people or pull people up or show them why they may have biases or whatever.

Granted, we are going through some hard times as America tries to cope with the Dallas police shootings, but now is not the time to start pointing fingers and playing the blame game.

Five officers were killed and seven others were wounded during a sniper’s Thursday night rampage in Dallas.

Singer John Legend called for Walsh to be arrested for threatening the president.

Regardless of his attempted clarification, Walsh’s comments to protect our police by declaring violence against the president and silencing the Black Lives Matter movement are completely unproductive. Time for America – white, black & brown – to stand up to the Cop haters.

The retired congressman is now a conservative radio talk show host. “It just means all lives matter….”

But when I press him on the particulars of Obama’s inflammatory rhetoric, Walsh falters.

In a separate interview with the Chicago Tribune, Walsh said Twitter had locked his account for violating the platform’s policies on threats of violence.

“4 Dallas Cops assassinated tonight”. Walsh has said that he wasn’t making threats against Obama, and he wasn’t, at least not directly.

“I don’t believe we go kill people”, he told the AP.

The Black Lives Matter movement held a peaceful rally last Thursday in Dallas in response to recent police shootings that killed two separate African-American men the week prior.