O’Rourke: Trump a white nationalist whose rhetoric ‘encourages’ violence

Posted on AllSides August 4th, 2019
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Former Texas Congressman Beto O’Rourke said Sunday that the blame for a mass shooting in his hometown of El Paso the day before falls on President Donald Trump and his rhetoric about minorities, accusing the president of “encouraging” such acts of violence. In addition to shoring up gun control laws, the Democratic presidential candidate said in an interview on CNN’s “State of the Union”: “We have to acknowledge the hatred, the open racism that we're seeing," adding that "there is an environment of it in the United States.”

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