Trump didn’t fire a gun but blood is on his hands...

ONCE again, a piece of America was turned into a war zone. Again, the victims were innocent people, mostly elderly people practising their religion.

The brutal murder of 11 people at a Pittsburgh synagogue marked a week of extraordinary violence.

For the most part, the country was left on edge as an alleged white supremacist sent 14 pipe bombs to two former presidents, celebrities and anyone else they felt opposed Donald Trump.

Elsewhere, a man killed two black people at a grocery store in Kentucky after he tried to enter a black church minutes before the fatal shooting.

It’s alleged Gregory Bush spared one man’s life by telling him: “Whites don’t kill whites.”

While Trump will have you believe the threat to the US come from those abroad, the danger it now faces has nothing to do with Central Americans currently walking north.

Americans have good reason to be fearful as the danger comes from those in their midst showing just how tattered the country’s identity has become in the last few years.

As Trump rails against foreigners and refugees, it’s important to remember serial bombing suspect Cesar Sayoc is not a foreign terrorist.

Nor is Robert Bowers, who allegedly shouted “all Jews must die” after the Pittsburgh slaughter.

None are either Mexican, Muslim or refugees – they are Americans who grew to hate anyone who doesn’t think as they do.

No one will know whether the events would have happened without President Trump’s rhetoric over the last two years.

It’s true political violence is nothing new.

But the fact is, Trump’s aggression is without equal in American politics making it a reasonable question to ask whether he has brought about the division not been seen in the States since the 1960s.

It is why many Jewish leaders in Pittsburgh said the president was not welcome in their city as he visited those affected by the massacre.

Shortly after law enforcement arrested Sayoc, Trump stood in front of a group of young, black conservatives and sniggered at the phrase “lock him up” about George Soros, the billionaire targeted with a mail bomb. He then said he has no plans to tone down his rhetoric before noting the alleged bomber “was a person that preferred me over others”.

Then immediately after the mass murder in Pittsburgh, Trump went to Indianapolis to give a speech to the Future Farmers of America where he said he nearly called off the rally as he was having “bad hair day”. According to the Anti-defamation League, there was a 57% increase in anti-semitic incidents in 2017.

That same year, President Trump infamously said there were some “fine people” among the white supremacists and neonazis marching in Charlottesville, one of whom drove into and killed a young woman protesting against them.

Nobody wins from such unrestrained vitriol.

It serves, as has been shown, only to put people’s lives at risk.

It’s very hard to think of a leader in American history who has been as aggressively divisive as this one and who has shown essentially no moral leadership.

Trump isn’t making America great again, he’s making it hate again.

Trump’s agression is without equal in American history