Matthew VanDyke

Matthew VanDyke @Matt_VanDyke

@Cindiluuwhoo A convicted pedophile (released from a mental hospital that morning and who had been threatening people and yelling the n-word), tried to grab Rittenhouse’s gun and kill him with it. The kid defended himself. Two others, both with weapons (one a gun), then attacked the kid. — PolitiTweet.org

Matthew VanDyke @Matt_VanDyke

@Cindiluuwhoo He wasn’t in a protest to stop protesters. He was putting out fires and providing first aid to rioters after the protests. He has said he supports BLM. There is so much you have wrong about this case. If you read up on it, you’ll feel completely differently. — PolitiTweet.org

Matthew VanDyke @Matt_VanDyke

@Cindiluuwhoo His mother didn’t buy him an AR-15 and she didn’t drive him across state lines. None of that is true, This is why you need to watch the trial. This case was lied about more than any in history, which you’ll see when the kid is awarded millions in defamation lawsuit settlements. — PolitiTweet.org

Matthew VanDyke @Matt_VanDyke

@Cindiluuwhoo The kid’s life matters also. One of those he shot pointed a gun at the kid’s face. Another he shot tried to grab the kid’s gun to kill him with it. The other one he shot tried to bludgeon him to death. All were violent, convicted criminals trying to kill a teenager. — PolitiTweet.org

Matthew VanDyke @Matt_VanDyke

@GeneMThompson None of them. — PolitiTweet.org

Matthew VanDyke @Matt_VanDyke

@KeithGoode13 Of course they would, and that would be improper, unethical, and dishonest also. — PolitiTweet.org

Matthew VanDyke @Matt_VanDyke

@MikeYngblood It sure looks like intentional murders, and likely is. Doesn’t look like a hate crime. How can you assume everyone at a Christmas parade is white? That’s a highly offensive and racist assumption to make. — PolitiTweet.org

Matthew VanDyke @Matt_VanDyke

@VargasGray If you have proof of his political motive for his crime and proof that only white people were targeted, you need to turn that evidence over to the police. — PolitiTweet.org

Matthew VanDyke @Matt_VanDyke

@mavenair I’m not defending murders. As a terrorism analyst, I am disagreeing that this meets the definition of terrorism in the absence of any motive that would qualify this as terrorism. — PolitiTweet.org

Matthew VanDyke @Matt_VanDyke

@kmw2go Do you know why he was wearing medical gloves? — PolitiTweet.org

Matthew VanDyke @Matt_VanDyke

@DiddlyMcGhee He wasn’t part of any militia, as he has clearly stated, and that wasn’t even alleged in court. He fired that lawyer. He was legally able to carry the weapon, which is why that charge was dropped. And he never executed anyone. Clearly, you didn’t watch the trial. — PolitiTweet.org

Matthew VanDyke @Matt_VanDyke

@DiddlyMcGhee He wasn’t part of any militia, as he has clearly stated, and that wasn’t even alleged in court. He was legally able to carry that weapon, which is why that charge was dropped. And he never hunted anyone, quite the opposite. Clearly, you didn’t watch the trial. — PolitiTweet.org

Matthew VanDyke @Matt_VanDyke

@Phil_MacRevis I understand, indeed they are. Thank you. I appreciate it. — PolitiTweet.org

Matthew VanDyke @Matt_VanDyke

@firstcontactnow I’m not defending his actions, his actions are repulsive. But there is zero evidence of a racial or political motive that would make this terrorism instead of a mass killing. This was a Christmas parade, not a St. Patrick’s Day parade. It was a mixed race event. — PolitiTweet.org

Matthew VanDyke @Matt_VanDyke

@Cindiluuwhoo Clearly, you didn’t watch the trial. Nobody alleged such nonsense, not even the prosecutor who crossed so many lines he nearly caused a mistrial. Rittenhouse also said in an interview after the trial that he supports BLM, an admission that will only hurt him with his fans. — PolitiTweet.org

Matthew VanDyke @Matt_VanDyke

@GeneMThompson In the interest of accuracy, they weren’t unarmed. One was trying to arm himself by taking Rittenhouse’s rifle and likely kill him with it. Another tried to beat him to death with a skateboard. The third pointed a Glock right at Rittenhouse’s face before Rittenhouse shot him. — PolitiTweet.org

Matthew VanDyke @Matt_VanDyke

@qbengrl Yes, but even in the extremely unlikely case that Waukesha was an act of terrorism, nobody should be weaponizing for political purposes that remote possibility before a motive is known (or weaponizing the tragedy at all, ever). — PolitiTweet.org

Matthew VanDyke @Matt_VanDyke

@firstcontactnow Yes, but correlation does not imply causation. — PolitiTweet.org

Matthew VanDyke @Matt_VanDyke

@qbengrl @RickJoh44846997 Actions that I never once cried about, and which I openly take full responsibility for, am proud of, and would do again without hesitation. — PolitiTweet.org

Matthew VanDyke @Matt_VanDyke

@qbengrl @RickJoh44846997 No, but am an international security and terrorism analyst, in addition to having been openly accused of terrorism by the Assad regime in Syria, and was a POW in Libya for actions that the Gaddafi regime considered terrorism (combat against the regime). — PolitiTweet.org

Matthew VanDyke @Matt_VanDyke

@DiddlyMcGhee Deaths, not murders. And how did it? A white kid shot three white men who attacked him, and there is zero evidence that the kid is a white supremacist (Rittenhouse has said he supports BLM). — PolitiTweet.org

Matthew VanDyke @Matt_VanDyke

@RickJoh44846997 He was sobbing in court. Extremely unlikely that he was making a statement (and what statement would that be since not everyone there was white) and then crying about making a statement. Terrorists tend to own their statements and actions, that's the point of the terrorism. — PolitiTweet.org

Matthew VanDyke @Matt_VanDyke

@qbengrl Videos which showed no evidence of white supremacy, black supremacy, or terrorism as a motive. — PolitiTweet.org

Matthew VanDyke @Matt_VanDyke

@firstcontactnow Are you saying that only white people march in Christmas parades? That he could tell the race of people wearing winter clothes and masks as he drove towards them? That he weaved around non-white people at high speed to target only white people? Ridiculous. — PolitiTweet.org

Matthew VanDyke @Matt_VanDyke

@Phil_MacRevis If I was running for political office or planned on having my follower count etched on my tombstone, then I might care. — PolitiTweet.org

Matthew VanDyke @Matt_VanDyke

@PaigeSully88 I don't know why the Las Vegas shooting would be considered domestic terrorism, since the motive of the shooter has never been discovered and to this day remains a complete mystery. — PolitiTweet.org

Matthew VanDyke @Matt_VanDyke

@CellarSinger Depends on the motive. For example, the FBI definition of terrorism: Violent, criminal acts committed by individuals and/or groups to further ideological goals stemming from domestic influences, such as those of a political, religious, social, racial, or environmental nature. — PolitiTweet.org

Matthew VanDyke @Matt_VanDyke

Appropriating and exploiting tragedies for your own political causes is repulsive. #Rittenhouse wasn't a mass shooting by a white supremacist. #Waukesha wasn't terrorism by a #BLM supporter. Stop splashing around in the tears of mourning people as you weaponize their grief. — PolitiTweet.org

Matthew VanDyke @Matt_VanDyke

Kyle Rittenhouse worked as a janitor during high school to help support his family. Now Republicans in Congress want applause for offering the kid unpaid internships. They're not just trying to exploit #Rittenhouse, they're trying to do it on the cheap. #Boebert #Gaetz #Gosar — PolitiTweet.org

Matthew VanDyke @Matt_VanDyke

A couple of weeks before my friend James Foley was kidnapped, we took this photo together in #Syria. He was held by #ISIS for nearly 2 years before they executed him on video. His life may have ended, but his legacy is immortal, and lives on in the hearts of those he inspired. https://t.co/J4c48WkbV4 — PolitiTweet.org