OBAMA ADMINISTRATION’S CULTURE OF DENIAL: Friend Who Told FBI About Orlando Shooter Omar Mateen Saw a ‘Red Flag’

In 2014, American-born Mateen was remarried to a second wife and had a new son — and his friend, Mohammad Malik, had never heard him express extremist views or say anything homophobic.

But after a young man who went to their Florida mosque was killed in a suicide bombing in Syria that year, one thing did trouble Malik: Mateen said he was listening to recordings of Anwar al-Awlaki, the radical Islamic cleric killed by a U.S. drone strike in Yemen three years earlier. The suicide bomber, Moner Mohammad Abu-Salha, had said in videos before he was killed that al-Awlaki inspired him.

So Mateen wasn’t radicalized by Donald Trump rallies or Bible classes after all?