Rep. Bergman to Newsmax: Surprise Attacks Shouldn’t Repeat

Incidents such as the New Year’s Day attack in New Orleans or the explosion outside a Trump-owned hotel in Las Vegas are often pulled off due to the element of surprise, but once something has happened, that surprise shouldn’t happen again, Rep. Jack Bergman said on Newsmax Saturday. 

“You should only be surprised once, no matter what the situation is security-wise, especially whether it’s a place like New Orleans or a place like Las Vegas, any office building, whatever it happens to be, go back to Oklahoma city a long time ago,” the Michigan Republican, a retired three-star U.S. Marine Corps lieutenant general, told Newsmax’s “Saturday Report.” 

“Bad things happen,” Bergman added, “because in a very small percentage of the cases, the perpetrators are doing something that hasn’t been done before.”

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