NYTimes: In El Paso Shooting Suspect's Manifesto, an Echo of Trump's Language

[spanone]

President Trump’s sometimes false, fear-stoking language has left him ill equipped to provide the kind of unifying, healing force that other presidents projected in times of national tragedy.

At campaign rallies before last year’s midterm elections, President Trump repeatedly warned that America was under attack by immigrants heading for the border. “You look at what is marching up, that is an invasion!” he declared at one rally. “That is an invasion!”

Nine months later, a 21-year-old white man is accused of opening fire in a Walmart in El Paso, killing 20 people and injuring dozens more after writing a manifesto railing against immigration and announcing that “this attack is a response to the Hispanic invasion of Texas.”

The suspect wrote that his views “predate Trump,” as if anticipating the political debate that would follow the blood bath. But if Mr. Trump did not originally inspire the gunman, he has brought into the mainstream polarizing ideas and people once consigned to the fringes of American society.

While other leaders have expressed concern about border security and the costs of illegal immigration, Mr. Trump has filled his public speeches and Twitter feed with sometimes false, fear-stoking language even as he welcomed to the White House a corps of hard-liners, demonizers and conspiracy theorists shunned by past presidents of both parties. Because of this, Mr. Trump is ill equipped to provide the kind of unifying, healing force that other presidents projected in times of national tragedy.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/04/us/politics/trump-mass-shootings.html?action=click&module=Spotlight&pgtype=Homepage

[Hoyt]

1. Grounds for Impeachment, IMO.

[madaboutharry]

2. Trump is a racist and white nationalist.

He is also a pathological liar. His credibility is zero.

[spanone]

4. No doubt. Unfit to be president.

[marybourg]

3. The hispanic invasion of Texas???

Don’t they teach Texas history in Texas classrooms?

[MustLoveBeagles]

5. trump isn't fit to lead

and that's the nicest thing I can say about him.

[PSPS]

6. The media always waters it down. This time, it's "sometimes false, fear-stoking language"

[procon]

7. They laid the crown of racism on Trump's head.

Good on the NY times for saying what needed to be said to the illegitimate president. Of course, Trump will wear that charge like a shiny badge of honor. It will impress his whitewing voters, even at the expense of the weary nation and the waning body politic.

[rockfordfile]

8. GOP is a domestic terrorist group

[Blue_true]

9. Yes it was. nt

[Salviati]

10. "Echoes of trump's language"? Heck, I bet trump had to be talked out of suing for royalties...