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(86,005 posts) Sun Aug 11, 2019, 07:58 AM Aug 2019

Kamala: "Trump didn't pull the trigger, but he's certainly been tweeting out the ammunition"

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Sen. Kamala Harris slammed Trump's rhetoric at an @Everytown for Gun Safety forum in Iowa, linking his bigotry to the El Paso shooting. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/kamala-harris-trump-tweeting-ammunition-el-paso-shooter_n_5d4f1c11e4b0fc06ace89690?ncid=engmodushpmg00000004&guccounter=1… via @HuffPostPol

Kamala Harris Saturday at the Moms Demand Gun Sense Forum

____“People say to me, ‘Did Donald Trump cause those folks to be killed?’ Well, no, of course he didn’t pull the trigger, but he’s certainly been tweeting out the ammunition,” the 2020 hopeful said at the Presidential Gun Sense Forum hosted by Everytown for Gun Safety in Des Moines, Iowa.

Harris told the audience at the gun control event that it is high time that Trump ― who has in recent weeks used Twitter to attack a handful of lawmakers of color ― use his platform responsibly.

“We need a president of the United States who ... understands that one of her greatest powers is to use the microphone in a way that is about not beating people down, but lifting people up,” she said.

Harris went on to call Trump’s remarks following the El Paso shooting “empty gestures,” arguing that he threw away an opportunity to seriously address gun violence and use his party’s dominance in the Senate to pass much needed reform.

“I say put your money where your mouth is for all these people,” she said, demanding an end to the “thoughts and prayers” offered by politicians after mass shootings and instead calling upon them to “act on it.”

read: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/kamala-harris-trump-tweeting-ammunition-el-paso-shooter_n_5d4f1c11e4b0fc06ace89690?ncid=engmodushpmg00000004

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