Conservatives are seething because Joe Biden mocked Josh Hawley’s Nashville shooting theory

President Joe Biden cracked a joke about Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO), and the right is outraged.

Since Nashville chief of police John Drake revealed that investigators believe the Nashville school shooter was transgender, many on the right have been trying to paint the shooting as proof that LGBTQ+ people, and particularly transgender people, have declared an existential war against Christians.

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In statements that have been criticized for potentially inciting violence against trans people, Fox News host Tucker Carlson said on his show last night that “one side is likely to draw blood before the other side,” referring to the supposed coming war between trans people and Christians.

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Hawley is trying to make people believe that the shooting was an anti-Chrsitian hate crime, despite the fact that there isn’t evidence of that. Even though the shooting took place at a Christian school – the Presbyterian Covenant School – the shooter would have had to have targeted Christians as a class for the shooting to be a hate crime. The shooter was a former student of the school and may have had an issue with the school itself, though.

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Hawley was the only senator, Democratic or Republican, to vote against a hate crimes bill two years ago when it was Asian Americans being targeted for hate crimes.

Biden was asked yesterday outside the White House if he thinks that “Christians were targeted” in the shooting.

“I have no idea,” Biden responded.

“Josh Hawley believes they were. What do you say to that?” the reporter insisted.

“Well, I probably don’t then,” Biden replied. “No, I’m joking. No, I have no idea.”

“Biden was asked about Christians being targeted and slaughtered by the mentally-ill trans community,” Benny Johnson of the far-right organization Turning Point USA tweeted. “Biden makes a despicable partisan joke and cracks up laughing.”

“Sick. Scumbag. Demonic.”

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Biden, like every other president in the history of the country, is a Christian.

Biden asked about Christians being targeted and slaughtered by the mentally-ill trans community.

Biden makes a despicable partisan joke and cracks up laughing: “I’m just joking.”

Sick. Scumbag. Demonic. pic.twitter.com/p1ctxRW8Z4

— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) March 29, 2023

#Biden jokes he doesn’t believe Christians were targeted in Nashville shooting if Sen. Hawley does. https://t.co/kkNezshyPg pic.twitter.com/MdeP5azSps

— New York Post (@nypost) March 29, 2023

When asked whether or not he believes Christians were target in the #CovenantChristianSchool shooting…

The pathetic Biden jokes around and claims to have no idea!!#DemocratsAreEvil pic.twitter.com/KtYJmjQgkl

— Millennial Conservative ™️ (@Milennial_con) March 29, 2023

I lived near that school and I have hardly slept since Monday. Seeing Joe Biden celebrate with ice cream jokes was really disturbing. Then that tweet was unbelievable. I am fearful, being a white Christian, because we are being targeted by the left.

— LifeWantsToLive (@LifeWants2Live) March 29, 2023

Joe Biden Jokes About Christians Being Targeted in Nashville School Shooting. He is a Pathetic Jackass.

— victor bonsignore (@victorbonsigno2) March 29, 2023

This moment comes two days after Biden joked around with an audience full of kids at the White House on Monday, talking about ice cream and how smart his little sister is, trying to put his young audience at ease. He delivered a short statement about the Nashville shooting after his banter, which led to outrage from the right.

“This is single handedly the most offensive thing I have ever witnessed from the office of the president,” the conservative Daily Wire writer Tim Meads huffed.

This is single handedly the most offensive thing I have ever witnessed from the office of the president.

Biden jokes as the audience laughs about ice cream, good looking kids, and his sister for more than two minutes before addressing the Nashville shooting. pic.twitter.com/2L3L90Hl2I

— Tim Meads (@TimMeadsUSA) March 27, 2023

“Biden’s crass joke about eating Ice Cream just before a statement on the Nashville shooter is no surprise…,” said the far-right Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage. He didn’t explain how he came to the conclusion that Biden saying he has a fridge full of ice cream at the White House is a “crass joke.” “His mental faculties suggest he is wholly unfit to hold public office.”

Biden’s crass joke about eating Ice Cream just before a statement on the Nashville shooter is no surprise…

His mental faculties suggest he is wholly unfit to hold public office. pic.twitter.com/lUiK2Q3gkr

— Nigel Farage (@Nigel_Farage) March 28, 2023 AdBridg.cmd.push(function() { AdBridg.display("div-gpt-ad-outstreamplayer"); });