At a June 14 congressional oversight hearing on the Department of Homeland Security’s terrorism-prevention grant program, American University assistant public communications professor Kurt Braddock defended his previous statements accusing Fox News host Tucker Carlson of “stochastic terrorism.”
Braddock, who said he has received more than $550,000 in grants from the DHS for a number of his research projects, also applied the stochastic terrorist label to Donald Trump and Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.), adding that Rep. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) could be one, too.
The communications professor was responding to questions from Rep. Dan Bishop (R-N.C.), who asked about Braddock’s May 16 Tweets blaming Carlson for the Buffalo mass shooting two days before. Though Braddock didn’t specify what Carlson said to allegedly provoke the shooter, his Tweets accuse Carlson of stochastic terrorism, defining the term as “a form of incitement, where the speaker uses coded language, dog whistles, and other subtext to justify, promote, or advocate the use of violence without providing overt directives to do so.”…