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California Democrat Eric Swalwell appeared to compare fellow Republican Rep. Lauren Bobert of Colorado with the suspect in Monday’s mass shooting in Highland Park, Illinois, that left six dead and dozens injured.
Swawell posted the tweet Tuesday, appearing to compare the Highland Park, Illinois, gunman who killed six people and wounded more than 30 at a Fourth of July parade to Bobert.
“Let’s start drawing straight lines,” Swawell wrote on his Congressional Twitter account, posting photo by Boebert holding an AR-15 rifle placed next to a photo of suspect Robert Crimo III.
HIGHLAND PARK MAYOR: ROBERT CRIMO III’S GUN IS ‘ADDED LEGALLY’
Swalwell’s tweet may also suggest that the alleged shooter was inspired by Boebert. The publication came the day after the massacre.
Bobert told Fox News Digital that he understands that “Eric Swalwell is no fan of our constitutional rights and is desperate to distract from repeated policy failures, but the only straight line that needs to be drawn is from Eric Swalwell to Fang Fang to the Chinese Communist Party’.
“I’ll make sure that line is drawn when we get the House back,” Bobert continued. “Law-abiding gun owners will not be greased and disarmed every time a failed California presidential candidate rolls out of bed with a Chinese spy and tries to blame us for the behavior of others.”
Rep. Lauren Bobert pushed back on Rep. Eric Swawell’s tweet comparing her to the suspect in Monday’s mass shooting in Highland Park, Illinois, saying law-abiding gun owners like her “will not be vilified.” (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)
The nation witnessed horror on Monday after gunfire erupted at the Highland Park Independence Day parade, sending attendees running for their lives.
Highland Park Mayor Nancy Rotering told NBC’s “Today” show that the gun suspected Robert Crimo III used in the fatal shooting at the Fourth of July parade was “legally acquired” — and now the U.S. needs to review gun laws after this.
The Illinois mayor said he was waiting Tuesday for prosecutors to file charges against the 22-year-old man accused of killing at least six people and injuring more than 30 in Monday’s attack.
California Democrat Eric Swwell appeared to compare fellow Republican Lauren Bobert of Colorado to the suspect in Monday’s mass shooting in Highland Park (Kevin Dietsch-Pool/Getty Images)
“This tragedy should never have arrived on our doorstep, and as a small town, everyone knows someone who has been directly affected by this,” Rothering said.
The mayor added that she was Crimo’s Cub Scout leader as a child, describing him as “just a little boy.”
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“It’s one of those things where you step back and say, ‘What happened?'” Rothering said. “How did someone become so angry, so hateful, then take it out on innocent people?”
Swalwell Communications Director Jessica Gale falsely claimed in an email to FOX News Digital that the network did not cover shootings in America and wrote that if you “weren’t killed or traumatized by a mass shooting” over the holiday weekend, “chances are should I go to a public event.”
“We are a country of unlimited guns, where the most dangerous people have access to the most dangerous weapons,” Gale argued. “No elected leader in America fetishizes a dangerous person’s access to military-style weapons more than Representative Bobert.”
“And we won’t stop calling her and her co-murderers out,” she continued.
Greg Norman of FOX News Digital contributed reporting.
Houston Keane is a political reporter for Fox News Digital. Story tips can be sent to Houston.Keene@Fox.com and on Twitter: @HoustonKeene
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