Trump criticised after brutal mass shootings linked to white nationalism and anti-immigrant hate rhetoric leave 29 dead.

Donald Trump faced a barrage of criticism on Sunday as the US reeled from a brutal mass shooting in the border city of El Paso, Texas, on Saturday, linked to white nationalism and anti-immigrant hate rhetoric.
A total of 20 people were killed in the majority Latino city, nestled in western Texas on the US-Mexico border, as federal authorities investigated a potential hate crime and local prosecutors charged a 21-year-old white man, Patrick Crusius, with murder and said they would pursue the death penalty.
Related: El Paso shooting at Walmart leaves 20 people dead
The suspect was from the town of Allen 650 miles from the site of the shooting, at a busy Walmart in the city.
Less than 13 hours later another mass shooting took place in the city of Dayton, Ohio, leaving nine dead there and bringing the total injured from both shootings to at least 52.
Authorities in Dayton named the shooter as 24 year-old Connor Betts and listed the names of the nine people killed, which included the shooter’s 22-year-old sister Megan Betts.
Police in El Paso were examining a hate-riddled message on the website 8chan, posted around 20 minutes before Saturday’s attack, in which the author expressed sympathy for a white nationalist massacre at mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, a few months ago, and which stated: “This attack is a response to the Hispanic invasion of Texas.”
People hold their mobile phones with flash on during a vigil in Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua state, on August 03, 2019, after a mass shooting which left 20 people dead in El Paso, Texas.View photosPeople hold their mobile phones with flash on during a vigil in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua state, on Saturday after a mass shooting which left 20 people dead in El Paso, Texas. Photograph: Hérika Martínez/AFP/Getty ImagesMoreBy Sunday afternoon , the US president, who is spending the weekend at his golf resort in Bedminster, New Jersey, had not addressed the nation in person, with a proclamation from the White House saying: “Our Nation mourns with those whose loved ones were murdered in the tragic shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, and we share in the pain and suffering of all those who were injured in these two senseless attacks. We condemn these hateful and cowardly acts.”
Trump, who was seen in social media posts posing with wedding guests at his resort on Saturday evening, directed flags to be flown at half-mast to mark the massacres.
With over 24 hours passing since the shooting, the president’s daughter and adviser, Ivanka Trump tweeted: “White supremacy, like all other forms of terrorism, is an evil that must be destroyed.”
But leading Democrats in the field for the 2020 presidential nomination rounded on the president, linking the anti-immigrant rhetoric that characterized both his 2016 campaign and his tenure as president to the potential hate crime.
The former Democratic congressman from El Paso, Beto O’Rourke, labelled Trump a white nationalist and accused the president of encouraging attacks like those in El Paso.
“We have to acknowledge the hatred, the open racism that we’re seeing,” O’Rourke told CNN, adding: “There is an environment of it in the United States.” He also decried the wide availability of high-powered firearms.
Meanwhile, US senator from New Jersey and rival Democratic 2020 presidential candidate, Cory Booker, told the news channel: “He [Trump] is responsible for what is going on and is doing nothing to stop the carnage and chaos.” Booker added: “This is a moral moment and he is failing this nation.”
Julián Castro, the former mayor of San Antonio in Texas and another 2020 runner, said: “There is no question that this president is setting a tone of division and fanning the flames of bigotry and hate. It’s not making it any better. It’s making it worse.”
Some state officials in Texas have been quick to link the attack in El Paso to acts of domestic terrorism. The state’s land commissioner, George P Bush, grandson of president George HW Bush, said in a statement: “There have now been multiple attacks from self-declared white terrorists here in the US in the last several months. This is a real and present threat that we must all denounce and defeat.”
Officials from the US justice department on the ground in El Paso announced on late on Sunday morning they were investigating the shooting as a domestic terror and hate crime offense. The GuardianINFORMATION IS POWER!-Thank you for the support. Please email all your articles, photos and breaking news, to newzimbabwe.vision@yahoo.com ,linkedin.com/in/sibusiso-ngwenya-563a572b or whatsapp to Mr Sibusiso Ngwenya 0044 79 3 9100534 for publication on the constantly growing online groups, currently standing as follows1) Global News 4us all 210,939 members2) Democratic Prosperous Future 32,287 Members3) Climate, Green Energy, Pollution 18,676 members4) Newzimbabwevision.com website 22,970 likes22,969 followers.Manages NewzimbabwevisionFollowed by 12,413 people ‘Trump criticised after two mass shootings linked to white nationalism and anti-immigrant hate rhetoric leave 29 dead’ Donald Trump faced a barrage of criticism on Sunday as the US reeled from a brutal mass shooting in the border city of El Paso, Texas, on Saturday, linked to white nationalism and anti-immigrant hate rhetoric.
A total of 20 people were killed in the majority Latino city, nestled in western Texas on the US-Mexico border, as federal authorities investigated a potential hate crime and local prosecutors charged a 21-year-old white man, Patrick Crusius, with murder and said they would pursue the death penalty.
Related: El Paso shooting at Walmart leaves 20 people dead
The suspect was from the town of Allen 650 miles from the site of the shooting, at a busy Walmart in the city.
Less than 13 hours later another mass shooting took place in the city of Dayton, Ohio, leaving nine dead there and bringing the total injured from both shootings to at least 52.
Authorities in Dayton named the shooter as 24 year-old Connor Betts and listed the names of the nine people killed, which included the shooter’s 22-year-old sister Megan Betts.
Police in El Paso were examining a hate-riddled message on the website 8chan, posted around 20 minutes before Saturday’s attack, in which the author expressed sympathy for a white nationalist massacre at mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, a few months ago, and which stated: “This attack is a response to the Hispanic invasion of Texas.”
People hold their mobile phones with flash on during a vigil in Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua state, on August 03, 2019, after a mass shooting which left 20 people dead in El Paso, Texas.View photosPeople hold their mobile phones with flash on during a vigil in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua state, on Saturday after a mass shooting which left 20 people dead in El Paso, Texas. Photograph: Hérika Martínez/AFP/Getty ImagesMoreBy Sunday afternoon , the US president, who is spending the weekend at his golf resort in Bedminster, New Jersey, had not addressed the nation in person, with a proclamation from the White House saying: “Our Nation mourns with those whose loved ones were murdered in the tragic shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, and we share in the pain and suffering of all those who were injured in these two senseless attacks. We condemn these hateful and cowardly acts.”
Trump, who was seen in social media posts posing with wedding guests at his resort on Saturday evening, directed flags to be flown at half-mast to mark the massacres.
With over 24 hours passing since the shooting, the president’s daughter and adviser, Ivanka Trump tweeted: “White supremacy, like all other forms of terrorism, is an evil that must be destroyed.”
But leading Democrats in the field for the 2020 presidential nomination rounded on the president, linking the anti-immigrant rhetoric that characterized both his 2016 campaign and his tenure as president to the potential hate crime.
The former Democratic congressman from El Paso, Beto O’Rourke, labelled Trump a white nationalist and accused the president of encouraging attacks like those in El Paso.
“We have to acknowledge the hatred, the open racism that we’re seeing,” O’Rourke told CNN, adding: “There is an environment of it in the United States.” He also decried the wide availability of high-powered firearms.
Meanwhile, US senator from New Jersey and rival Democratic 2020 presidential candidate, Cory Booker, told the news channel: “He [Trump] is responsible for what is going on and is doing nothing to stop the carnage and chaos.” Booker added: “This is a moral moment and he is failing this nation.”
Julián Castro, the former mayor of San Antonio in Texas and another 2020 runner, said: “There is no question that this president is setting a tone of division and fanning the flames of bigotry and hate. It’s not making it any better. It’s making it worse.”
Some state officials in Texas have been quick to link the attack in El Paso to acts of domestic terrorism. The state’s land commissioner, George P Bush, grandson of president George HW Bush, said in a statement: “There have now been multiple attacks from self-declared white terrorists here in the US in the last several months. This is a real and present threat that we must all denounce and defeat.”
Officials from the US justice department on the ground in El Paso announced on late on Sunday morning they were investigating the shooting as a domestic terror and hate crime offense. The GuardianINFORMATION IS POWER!-Thank you for the support. Please email all your articles, photos and breaking news, to newzimbabwe.vision@yahoo.com ,linkedin.com/in/sibusiso-ngwenya-563a572b or whatsapp to Mr Sibusiso Ngwenya 0044 79 3 9100534 for publication on the constantly growing online groups, currently standing as follows1) Global News 4us all 210,939 members2) Democratic Prosperous Future 32,287 Members3) Climate, Green Energy, Pollution 18,676 members4) Newzimbabwevision.com website 22,970 likes22,969 followers.Manages NewzimbabwevisionFollowed by 12,413 people