ANTI-SEMITISM/MASS SHOOTINGS/TERRORISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump will visit Pittsburgh on Tuesday [10-30-18] as the community mourns the victims of a mass shooting at a synagogue, the White House announced Monday [10-29-18]. Press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said during a press briefing that Trump and first lady Melania Trump will “express the support of the American people and grieve with the Pittsburgh community’…Robert Bowers, who made a number of anti-Semitic statements and expressed his desire to kill Jewish people, allegedly killed 11 Jewish people at Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh on Saturday[10-27-18]. Bowers has been charged with 29 federal crimes, including 11 counts of obstructing the exercise of religious beliefs resulting in death, and 11 counts of use of a firearm to commit murder…Some Jewish leaders wrote in a letter following the mass shooting that they do not want the president to visit Pittsburgh until he denounces white nationalism.”
–Rebecca Morin, “Trump to visit Pittsburgh in response to synagogue shooting,” Politico, October 29, 2018 3:06 pm