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By John Wojcik and Mark Gruenberg
Even after a speech today in which President Trump said hate has to end, calls to impeach him and statements identifying him as responsible for a mass shooting carried out by a white supremacist in El Paso, Texas, this weekend continued.
The day after two mass shootings, the first in El Paso and the second in Dayton, Ohio, in which at least 29 people died, Democratic New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker became the first presidential candidate speaking on nationwide media to blame GOP President Donald Trump for the mass murder in El Paso. Booker charged Trump with “sowing seeds of hatred in our country” and castigated him for not condemning white supremacy.
The first mass shooting in El Paso on August 3 was followed 10 hours later, just after midnight, by a second mass shooting in Dayton. Between the two at least 29 people were gunned down and at least 50 other people were injured.
The director of the FBI, Christopher Ray, said yesterday for the first time, after years of deadly attacks by domestic terrorists, that white supremacist domestic terrorism is now the greatest threat to the safety of the American people. Other non-partisan groups, notably the Southern Poverty Law Center, reached that conclusion long before.
“We have moral bonds and fabric of our country. We have a president of the United States who is particularly responsible,” Booker declared on MSNBC. “My faith has this idea that ‘You reap what you sow,’ and he (Trump) is sowing seeds of hatred in our country. This harvest of hate violence that we’re seeing now lies at his feet,” the Democratic presidential candidate declared.
“When you have the president from the highest moral office in our land talking about ‘invasions’ and ‘infestations’ and ‘shithole countries’... Read More »
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