Beto O’Rourke said Sunday that the blame for a mass shooting in his hometown of El Paso the day before falls on Trump
in his hometown of El Paso the day before falls on President Donald Trump and his rhetoric about minorities, accusing the president of “encouraging” such acts of violence.
On Saturday afternoon, a gunman opened fire outside of a WalMart in a busy shopping center in El Paso, which sits just across the border from Mexico and has a large Latino population. Police say that the attack killed at least 20 and wounded two dozen others. The suspect, identified as 21-year-old Patrick Crusius, is in custody.
“He is encouraging this. He doesn't just tolerate it, he encourages it, calling immigrants rapists and criminals and seeking to ban all people of one religion,” O’Rourke told host Jake Tapper. Castro, another presidential candidate from Texas, echoed some of O’Rourke‘s statements. Castro said that while the shooter was “responsible directly for that shooting in El Paso,” the president has created an environment making the shooting possible.
He also said he was convinced it was indeed a hate crime. “You can see Mexico — literally see Mexico from the parking lot of this WalMart. So this shooter must have known what he was doing,” he told Jonathan Karl. O’Rourke outlined a litany of instances by the president in which he has derided minorities or immigrants, including Trump’s call to ban Muslims from entering the U.S. during the 2016 presidential campaign, his assertion that there were “very fine people” on both sides of a 2017 neo-Nazi rally in Charlottesville, Va., that turned violent and Trump’s more recent attacks on lawmakers of color.
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