Rep. Steve King (R-IA) blamed President Obama for George Zimmerman being brought to trial during an interview on Fox News Sunday, yesterday.
WALLACE: Congressman King, let me start with you. Should George Zimmerman ever have been prosecuted?
KING: From what I have seen of the evidence, I would say no. My sympathy goes out also to the Martin family and the Zimmerman family for this ordeal that they’ve been through. The evidence didn’t support prosecution and the Justice Department engaged in this, the President engaged in this and turned it into a political issue that should have been handled exclusively with law and order. I regret that this all happened. I’m sorry that it was turned into a race issue by the media. Otherwise, it would have been tried or not tried depending on the laws that were there. This is unfortunate. [emphasis added]
This flies in the face of the known facts of the case as the President did not weigh in on the case until 3 days after the Florida state attorney sent the state case to a grand jury on March 20th of this year at which time he stated:
“I can only imagine what these parents are going through. And when I think about this boy, I think about my own kids.
“You know, if I had a son, he’d look like Trayvon. And, you know, I think they are right to expect that all of us, as Americans, are going to take this with the seriousness it deserves and that we’re going to get to the bottom of exactly what happened.”
You can watch the interview below:
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