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TexasTowelie

(112,405 posts)
Sun Aug 4, 2019, 02:34 PM Aug 2019

Booker says Trump is 'sowing seeds of hatred' after 2 mass shootings hit the U.S.

WASHINGTON — Following two mass shootings within 13 hours, U.S. Sen. Cory Booker said President Donald Trump deserved part of the blame.

“This harvest of hate violence that we’re seeing right now lies at his feet,” Booker said Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”

Booker, a candidate for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, has made gun safety a major plank of his campaign platform, calling for licensing gun owners and banning assault-style weapons. A 10-year ban on such weapons was part of the 1994 crime bill that Booker has slammed former Vice President Joe Biden for supporting.

Responding to the deaths of 20 people in El Paso on Saturday and nine more in Dayton, Ohio, on Sunday, Booker said Trump’s rhetoric contributed to the carnage.

The president has singled out for criticism five Democratic Congress members of color, described Haiti and some African nations as “shithole countries,” and described migrants seeking asylum in the U.S. as an “invasion.”

Read more: https://www.nj.com/politics/2019/08/booker-says-trump-is-sewing-seeds-of-hatred-after-2-mass-shootings-hit-the-us.html

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The son of a Klansman is a lifelong racist dalton99a Aug 2019 #2
 

duforsure

(11,885 posts)
1. This is red Donnie's
Sun Aug 4, 2019, 03:08 PM
Aug 2019

Idea of making America great again. Mass murderers, child abuse, child sex trafficking, taking away health care, giving the wealthy huge tax cuts, cuts to Social Security and Medicare and Medicaid. Barr a loyalist turning the justice system into his personal weapon. Conspiring with Putin to get into office and the list is growing daily with the promotion of hate, fear, and lies.

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dalton99a

(81,570 posts)
2. The son of a Klansman is a lifelong racist
Sun Aug 4, 2019, 03:09 PM
Aug 2019

And Republicans proudly nominated him to be president


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