Pelosi: Orlando attack a ‘hate crime’

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House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi downplayed the role Islamic terrorism may have played in the shooting death of 49 people in Orlando on Sunday, instead emphasizing the killer’s anti-LGBT sentiment.

“Clearly a hate crime,” Pelosi, D-Calif., said, describing Omar Mateen’s attack on a gay nightclub in Orlando, Fla., which also injured 53 people. “How much was a hate crime and how much was inspired by or justified by ISIS or whatever, I don’t know. But, we do know it was a hate crime and we know it was horrible.”

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