Acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney insisted Sunday that President Donald Trump 'is not a white supremacist.'
President Trump's Budget Director, Mick Mulvaney, is interviewed in Statuary Hall at the US Capitol before President Donald Trump's first State of the Union Address before a joint session of Congress on January 30, 2018 in Washington, DC.Acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney insisted Sunday that President Donald Trump"is not a white supremacist" and that his past rhetoric has no relation to the mass shooting that killed 50 at two New Zealand mosques last week.
The president's comments after the attack faced sharp criticism after he said he didn't see white nationalism as a growing threat, but rather a"small group of people," contrary to recent data. Host Chris Wallace referenced some parallels that lawmakers and members of media had drawn from Trump's rhetoric on Muslims and immigrants to the hateful attack, including a 2016 clip in which then-candidate Trump said he believes"Islam hates us," and Trump's comments fromMarch in which he described an influx of illegal immigrants as an"invasion."
"Let's take what happened in New Zealand yesterday for what it is: a terrible evil tragic act and figure out why those things are becoming more prevalent in the world," Mulvaney said."Is it Donald Trump? Absolutely not. Is there something else happening in our culture where people think 'I'm going to go on tv and live-stream me murdering other people,' that's what we should be talking about.
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