Donald Trump will offer a statement on deadly shootings in the United States
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- Published: Monday, 05 August 2019 07:53
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Washington, Aug. 5 - The president of the United States, Donald Trump, will make a statement today about the two mass shootings that shocked the country over the weekend, which left 29 dead and 53 wounded.
In the afternoon of yesterday, when leaving his golf club in New Jersey and heading towards this capital, the president made his first public comments on the massacre that occurred on Saturday in El Paso, Texas, and in the early hours of Sunday in Dayton, Ohio.
Offering his condolences for what happened, the Republican ruler announced that he will address the issue on Monday at the White House at 10:00 local time, and said he spoke with the attorney general, William Barr; and the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Christopher Wray, on mass violence.
"Hate has no place in our nation and we will take care of that," he told reporters.
He also said, without mentioning measures to support that claim, that his Government has done much more than most previous administrations when it comes to addressing armed violence, but admitted that "perhaps more needs to be done."
In that appearance before journalists, the ruler ignored questions that shouted at him about whether the anti-immigrant manifesto linked to the author of the El Paso shooting shared similarities with his rhetoric.
Likewise, Trump avoided making any reference to white supremacism or the need for greater control of firearms and, as on previous occasions after other mass shootings, he argued that these facts are part of 'a problem of mental illness.'
The White House chief made those statements after presidential candidates and Democratic lawmakers linked his rhetoric against immigration and his lack of open condemnation to white supremacism with the shooting in El Paso.
Patrick Crusius, a 21-year-old white man identified as the suspect in that massacre that caused 20 deaths and injured 26 people, is considered the author of an online proclamation that criticizes Latinos and immigrants, and speaks of fears that Hispanics take power in the United States.
Former congressman and presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke told CNN yesterday that the president's racist rhetoric had created the climate that led to the attack. 'Let's be very clear about what is causing this and who is the president. He is a declared racist and encourages more racism in this country, 'he said.
All available evidence suggests that we have a president who is racist, who is xenophobic, who appeals and is trying to appeal to white nationalism, the independent senator and also a White House candidate Bernie Sanders said. (PL)
