Acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney on Sunday defended President Trump’s record in the wake of two mass shootings in which dozens of people were killed in less than 24 hours.
“This is a serious problem, no question about it, but these are sick, sick people and the president knows it,” Mulvaney said on ABC’s “This Week.” “But I don’t think it’s fair to lay this at the feet of the president.”
Democratic presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke, a former Texas congressman, said Sunday that President Trump’s racist rhetoric is in part to blame for the mass shooting in O’Rourke’s hometown of El Paso.
Democratic presidential candidate Julian Castro on Sunday said President Trump created the environment that led to the shooting in El Paso, Texas, that killed 20 people and left two dozen more wounded.
Presidential candidate and South Bend, Ind. Mayor Pete Buttigieg (D) said in the wake of a mass shooting that killed 20 people in El Paso, Texas that white nationalism “is condoned at the highest levels.”
Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) said in the wake of a mass shooting early Sunday that claimed the lives of nine people in Dayton, Ohio that the U.S. is better than President Trump’s “racist, divisive” language.
“We wake up to grief and sadness about these victims and these families but it pretty quickly turns to anger that our government hasn’t done anything,” he said.
Rep. Veronica Escobar (D-Texas), whose district includes the El Paso Walmart where 20 people were shot and killed Saturday, said it “was not accidental” that the store – where many Hispanic Americans and Mexicans shop – was targeted.
Rep. Will Hurd (R-Texas), who recently announced his retirement, said on CBS’s “Face the Nation” that the public should report social media threats of mass violence to law enforcement in the wake of a mass shooting in El Paso, Texas that killed 20 on Saturday.
The mayor of Dayton, Ohio said Sunday that her city could have had “hundreds of lost lives” if police were slower in responding to a mass shooting earlier that morning.
“State of the Union” host Jake Tapper on Sunday called out a group of Republican lawmakers that he said declined to appear on the CNN show to discuss two deadly mass shootings in Texas and Ohio.
Presidential candidate and South Bend, Ind. Mayor Pete Buttigieg (D) on Sunday addressed his low support among African Americans and the recent police shooting of an unarmed black man in the city.
White House trade adviser Peter Navarro on Sunday identified what he called the “seven deadly sins” that China must stop doing before the ongoing trade war with the U.S. will come to an end.
