The president condemned white supremacy and floated vague fixes, but failed to recognize himself as part of the problem
He seemed at first glance Monday to open the door to some movement on strengthening background checks — a reform gun control advocates have sought in the wake of high profile shootings, including the recent tragedies in Dayton, El Paso, and a week earlier in Gilroy, California. But it immediately became clear that the proposal was made in highly questionable faith, as the president quickly floated tying the sensible gun measure to unnamed immigration reform — coming close to blaming the victim.
. Holding DREAMers hostage to his border crackdown was cruel enough, but his appeals to gun control as leverage for his anti-immigration fantasies is particularly crass here, considering alleged El Paso shooterThat this is the precise language Trump himself uses to describe Mexican and Central American migrants, of course, intensified scrutiny on the president, who has stoked rabid anti-immigrant anger among his supporters.
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