- President Donald Trump visited El Paso, Texas, on Wednesday in the wake of a mass shooting that left 22 dead.
- "We had an amazing day," the president said after visiting with law enforcement and victims of the shooting at a hospital. "We were there a lot longer than we were anticipated to be. We met with also the doctors, nurses, the medical staff. They have done an incredible job."
- Trump's visit to El Paso was marred with controversy given that the suspected shooter posted a racist manifesto online before carrying out the massacre. It echoed some of Trump's own rhetoric and characterized Hispanic immigration to the US as an "invasion."
- Earlier Wednesday, Trump visited a hospital in Dayton, Ohio, the site of a second mass shooting to happen over the weekend.
- He was widely criticized for attacking Sen. Sherrod Brown of Ohio and Dayton Mayor Nan Whaley after leaving the city, and he continued his attacks against them in El Paso.
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President Donald Trump visited El Paso, Texas, on Wednesday in the wake of a mass shooting at a Walmart on Saturday that left 22 dead.
"We had an amazing day," Trump said after visiting with victims of the shooting and law enforcement at a hospital. "As you know we left Ohio, and the love, the respect for the office of the presidency, it was — I wish you could there to see it."
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See Also:
- While Trump visited Dayton, the city's mayor said the president's 'divisive' rhetoric is 'last thing we need' after a mass shooting
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- FBI Agents Association urges Congress to make domestic terrorism a federal crime in the wake of Dayton and El Paso mass shootings
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