TN Congressman: White House Needs to Lower Flag After Chattanooga Shooting

Republican Tennessee Congressman Scott DesJarlais said during a Fox Business interview that President Barack Obama needs to order the flag at half-mast following last week’s Chattanooga shooting, and that he couldn’t imagine why he hadn’t already.

DesJarlais, who represents some of the suburban areas surrounding Chattanooga, told Fox Business Network host Stuart Varney that a flag lowering “needs to happen, and it needs to happen soon… I don’t know why it wouldn’t.”

“We’ve lost five servicemen, and as you’ve said, the flag goes to half-mast for all types of other incidents around the country,” he continued. “Here we have five servicemen [who] lost their lives. I can’t imagine why it hasn’t been lowered.”

Varney wondered whether or not the president’s refusal to “acknowledge domestic Islamic terrorism” had to do with the flag remaining at full-staff. “He has a hard time with that concept for some reason,” DesJarlais agreed. “I mean, it’s here, it’s here to stay, and we saw an example of it in Chattanooga last Thursday.”

Earlier in the day, Fox News reporter John Roberts also reported that the Chattanoogans he spoke to were openly wondering why the White House’s flag was not ordered to half-staff.

Watch, via FBN:

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