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Democrats blame Trump’s unguarded rhetoric for wave of shootings
Scores of Democrats have blamed President Donald Trump for the recent wave of deadly shooting that have rocked the United States of America of late.
A number of Democratic presidential candidates say his language against minorities and migrants promotes racial division and violence across the country.
“Donald Trump is responsible for this. He is responsible because he is stoking fears and hatred and bigotry,” Senator Cory Booker, a 2020 Democratic presidential candidate, said on CNN’s State of the Union.
In the same vein, Beto O’Rourke, a former congressman from El Paso, said he believed Trump was a white nationalist whose anti-immigrant rhetoric stoked divisions.
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“Let’s be very clear about what is causing this and who the president is,” O’Rourke said on CNN. “He is an open avowed racist and is encouraging more racism in this country.”
Similarly, US Senator Bernie Sanders also took Trump to task. “We must come together as a nation to reject this dangerous and growing culture of bigotry espoused by Trump and his allies,” he said late on Saturday.
The criticism follows a deadly incident in Texas when a 21-year old gunman opened fire at a packed shopping area in El Paso, killing at least 20 people and wounding 26 others on Saturday.
That shooting was followed by another bloody incident when a second gunman dressed in body armour opened fire in a central district of Dayton, Ohio, early on Sunday, killing nine people and wounding at least 27 others.
The suspected attacker was however shot dead by responding police officers.
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