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The headline’s kinda misleading if you read the articles. He said the attacker should be bailed out so he could be questioned. He also said the attack was “awful” and “not right”.
No, not to "be questioned," but to "ask him some questions." I think there's a subtle distinction with the former heavily implying guilt, and the latter implying interest or intrigue.
He wanted to pick his brain, not interrogate him.
Yeah I focused on this, too. Verbally I feel like he carefully dances a line here. It's not clear in this context why exactly he was saying this. At the same time that shit eating grin as he says it seems to show a darker side, along with other examples or him generally being a shit.
It's kind of like how Alex Jones likes to describe the gruesome violence he wants done to the people he doesn't like... "politically". It's not that hard to understand what's actually being said.
Edit: Found a supercut someone else made of Alex Jones threatening violence "politically". It even includes the dates he says it, which is pretty cool https://fight.fudgie.org/search/videos/?video=alex-jones-politically