Media have launched into identifying the underlying threat that causes mass shootings. They quickly focused onto two: lack of gun control, and white nationalism—then blamed the president of the United States for both.
“Tech companies are willing to work more closely with law enforcement to fight white nationalist terrorism, but the industry is skeptical of the White House’s seriousness on the issue.,”
Source: Axios
“El Paso Shooting Suspect’s Manifesto Echoes Trump’s Language.”
Source: New York Times
The Washington Post blamed President Donald Trump’s use of “us-against-them language about immigrants.”
Source: Washington Post
Former President Barack Obama identified the underlying threat as “gun laws,” “racist ideologies,” “white supremacy” and “language coming out of the mouths of any of our leaders that feeds a climate of fear and hatred and normalizes racist sentiments ….”
Source: Barack Obama
One would be lead to believe that the big threat in America today is white nationalism cultivated by President Trump. Why does the Left insist on this racist smear?
The 21-year-old El Paso murderer is not a conservative or even a Trump follower.
A 2300 word manifesto written by the shooter was discovered and the writer appears to have posted that he views Hispanic immigrants as a threat to the United States, not because they are racially inferior but because their numbers will jeopardise free universal health care, universal basic income and the environment:
It read, “If we can get rid of enough people, then our way of life can become more sustainable.”
Source: New York Times
If the content in the manifesto is conclusively linked to the El Paso shooter, the federal authorities may treat the attack as a hate crime or an incident of domestic terrorism.
Next time you watch television and see Trump attackers asked to produce evidence of his racism, they normally default to two topics: Charlottesville and the Border. Regarding the tragic incidents of Charlottesville in 2017, President Trump never called neo-Nazis “very fine people” and, in reality, he “totally condemned” the supremacists who attended.
On the topic of the Border, when Trump said it was a crisis, the left said it was a manufactured fake crisis. When it was proven that the border control was actually in crisis, the left pointed the finger at Trump.
A Democratic dominated Congress would rather spend the last 2 years+ on a Russian Collusion claim that turned out to be false. The same Congress who prevented additional funds being appropriated to improving the border conditions for immigrants, but then they blamed Trump for the over crowded conditions.