Acting White House Chief of Staff Mulvaney says the New Zealand mosque massacre, where a white supremacist allegedly killed 50 people, had nothing to do with President Trump's rhetoric and that the president 'is not a white supremacist.'
Director of the Office of Management and Budget Mick Mulvaney speaks to reporters outside the West Wing of the White House in Washington on Jan 19, 2018.Get breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings.
"You've seen the president stand up for religious liberty, individual liberty," Mulvaney said."The president is not a white supremacist. I'm not sure how many times we have to say that.
There have been several white nationalist or white supremacist attacks in the U.S. over the past few years, including the massacre of 11 worshippers at a Pittsburgh synagogue last fall and the murder of nine black churchgoers at a congregation in Charleston, South Carolina, in 2015.
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