WASHINGTON – The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) today set the record straight on Columbia University riots ringleader Mohsen Mahdawi. In recent days, misleading and lazy reporting painted the leader of pro-terrorist demonstrations as a “peacemaker” court records alleging that Mahdawi told a gun shop owner that he used firearms to “kill jews.”
In a brief filed by the Department of Justice (DOJ) on April 28 in the United States District Court for the District of Vermont, Mohsen Mahdawi (pictured at top) was cited as admitting to being involved in and supporting pro-terrorist acts of violence. Mahdawi also allegedly admitted to familiarity with firearms per a police report. The federal filing reveals:
Mahdawi supposedly told a gun shop owner “that he had considerable firearm experience” and used guns to “kill Jews while he was in Palestine.”
Mahadawi was cited as having experience building firearms, including modified 9mm submachine guns.
Another member of the community recalled Mahdawi stating “I like to kill Jews.”
In a police report, a concerned individual reported that Mahdawi requested to purchase a sniper rifle and a machine gun. He also claimed that he said he used to make guns for Hezbollah.
Below is an excerpt of the DOJ’s brief:
DOJ Brief
This week, Mahdawi also accused the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) of staging a citizenship interview as a trap in order to arrest him. Many in the media failed to report the real story here, which is that this terrorist sympathizer allegedly bragged to a gun shop owner that he had considerable firearms experience as he used to “kill Jews while he was in Palestine.”
Statement Attributable to Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin:
“As the media works overtime to glorify a ringleader of the Columbia pro-terrorist riots, court documents show Mahdawi allegedly told a gun shop owner that he had considerable firearms experience and he ‘used to kill Jews.’ The media tried to paint Mohsen Mahdawi as a martyr for free speech. The truth is he is a terrorist sympathizer and national security threat who does not belong in this country. Why does the media continue to defend terrorist sympathizers?”
Below are just a handful of examples of misleading headlines.
This is part of a media blitz by the administration, ICE, and Homeland Security are doing because the American public doesn’t like the methods they are using to arrest, detain and imprison people. It goes against our Constitution and most Americans’ better judgement.
Read this answer before…must be a left wing talking point, rinse, repeat until people believe it
No, that is the MAGA talking point in addition to ‘tell the lie often and we will believe it.’
Learned it from the dems/libs
You have learned it well.
Thank you for teaching me how to lie and make people believe…….
I think you learned how to lie a long time ago.
From you
Luckily for me, I don’t know you and don’t care to do so. You are also learning impaired and it would not be something I would try to fix.