Florida Shooting Survivor David Hogg Strikes Back at Right-Wing Trolls: ‘I Am Not a Crisis Actor’
"The fact that @DonaldJTrumpJr liked that post is disgusting to me" — @davidhogg111 pic.twitter.com/G8z7m7FE0Q
— Jon Levine (@LevineJonathan) February 21, 2018
David Hogg, a survivor of last week’s massacre at Parkland, Florida’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School is hitting back at right-wing internet trolls attempting to discredit his increasingly sharp television commentary calling for gun control.
In a prime-time spot on CNN Tuesday evening, Hogg told Anderson Cooper that he felt sorry for the rumor-mongerers and explicitly denied conspiracy theories swirling around him and his father, former FBI agent Kevin Hogg.
“These people saying this is absolutely disturbing and I’m not an actor in any sense, way, shape or form,” said Hogg. “I was a witness to this. I am not a crisis actor. I am somebody that had to witness this and live through this and I continue to have to do that. It’s just unbelievable to me that these people are even saying this.”
In addition to being a “crisis actor,” some writers in the right-wing fevers swamps speculated that Hogg had received coaching from the media and that his commentary was suspect because his father used to work for the FBI.
“Immediately, these students-turned-activists threw up some red flags,” Gateway Pundit White House correspondent Lucian Wintrich wrote in a much-maligned piece.
“Why would the child of an FBI agent be used as a pawn for anti-Trump rhetoric and anti-gun legislation? Because the FBI is only looking to curb YOUR Constitutional rights and INCREASE their power. We’ve seen similar moves by them many times over. This is just another disgusting example of it.”
Hogg also took issue with Donald Trump Jr. The president’s son “liked” a post on Twitter Tuesday which made many of the same scurrilous claims against Hogg outlined above.
“The fact that Donald Trump Jr. liked that post is disgusting to me,” Hogg said before insisting that he was actually a defender of the Second Amendment.
“These people keep saying that I am anti-Second Amendment, I’m not.” Hogg told Cooper. “I do not want to take away the constitutional rights of American citizens.”
TheWrap reached David Hogg by phone shortly before his CNN appearance Tuesday, but he declined to offer any additional comment.
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The "White House correspondent" of Gateway Pundit, a revolting alt-right twerp named Lucian Wintrich,
is trying to besmirch the name of a 17 year old high school student who has become politically activist in the wake of seeing his friends and classmates killed.
If Trump had any decency he would revoke Wintrich's W.H. credentials. Don't hold your breath on that one though.
Lucian Wintrich is not the only one. The right wing fever swamp on NT is right along with him.
They are trying. It is a comedy of errors, as always.
BREAKING NEWS : Donald Trump has demanded to see David Hogg's birth certificate.
Brandon Minoff, a student from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida said on Sunday that he thinks the media is politicizing the recent shooting at his high school instead of focusing on the students who lost their lives.
Minoff said, referring to whom he believes is promoting the gun control narrative in response to the shooting. "They exploit everything to make it political. They’re more concerned about gun control at this moment rather than the fact that there were 17 people that were killed."
"It pains me to see that knowing that 17 of my classmates are dead and they just want to talk about gun control," he continued. "Students have opinions, they say stuff that they’re against guns, and that gun control is necessary, but they’re making it bigger than it needs to be at this moment."
When asked if lawmakers should aim to pass more legislation to try to prevent tragedies like this from occurring in the future, he said that if lawmakers do pass legislation it needs to be something that is effective and "helpful" at fixing the situation, but added, "I don’t know how effective that is."
"You can’t drink until you’re 21, but that doesn't stop kids from drinking," he noted. "I don’t know if there is a way to stop it. There is a way around anything."
Minoff said that he "definitely" thinks that schools should have armed security guards, a comment he made while discussing football coach and security guard Aaron Feis, who was killed as he shielded students from the shooter.
"If coach Feis would have had a gun or any of the other security guards would have had a gun it definitely would have been less fatal," he said. "[The shooter] and coach Feis were face-to-face and he just shielded kids instead of having the ability to kill the shooter."
https://www.dailywire.com/news/27296/parkland-high-school-student-media-politicizing-ryan-saavedra#