Trump says ‘hate has no place in our country’
BRIDGEWATER, N.J. — President Donald Trump on Sunday denounced the two mass shootings in Ohio and Texas, saying “hate has no place in our country.”
Addressing reporters in Morristown, New Jersey, Trump said Sunday that “we’re going to take care” of the problem. He said he’s been speaking to the attorney general, FBI director and members of Congress and will be making an additional statement Monday.
Trump pointed to a mental illness problem in the U.S., calling the shooters “really very seriously mentally ill.”
He said the problem of shootings has been going on “for years and years” and “we have to get it stopped.”
The shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, over the weekend left at least 29 people dead.
IVANKA: REJECT WHITE SUPREMACY
Presidential daughter Ivanka Trump tweeted her support for the eradication of white supremacy Sunday, calling it a “form of terrorism” after two mass shootings in fewer than 14 hours.
“As our nation mourns the senseless loss of life in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, and prays for the victims and their loved ones, we must also raise our voices in rejection of these heinous and cowardly acts of hate, terror and violence,” she said on Twitter. “White supremacy, like all other forms of terrorism, is an evil that must be destroyed.”
The comments came after a shooting Saturday morning in El Paso that left 20 people dead and 26 wounded, followed by another in Dayton, Ohio, in which nine people were killed and at least 27 wounded.
SCHUMER WANTS TO END RECESS
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer is willing to forego his summer vacation to work on gun control legislation if freshly injured Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell — injured Sunday during a fall in his Louisville, K.Y., home — will join him in Washington.
The 66-year-old Brooklyn native made his demand Sunday.
“El Paso, Dayton, one awful event after another,” Schumer tweeted. “[Sen. McConnell] must call the Senate back for an emergency session to put the House-passed universal background checks legislation on the Senate floor for debate and a vote immediately,” he wrote.
The NRA gives McConnell an A-rating for his opposition to gun control while Schumer gets an F.
The Senate is in recess through September so representatives can get out of Washington, D.C., for a few weeks.