MASS SHOOTINGS/OBAMA/RACISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump on Tuesday [8-6-19] attacked former President Barack Obama over the latter’s statement on the weekend’s mass shootings in Texas and Ohio, tweeting edited quotes from Fox News hosts to make his point and again claiming he is ‘the least racist person’ in the world…Obama on Monday afternoon lamented the violence that transpired Saturday morning in El Paso, Texas, and early Sunday morning in Dayton, Ohio, which left at least 31 people dead and dozens more injured. In his statement, Obama called on Americans to ‘soundly reject language coming out of the mouths of any of our leaders that feeds a climate of fear and hatred or normalizes racist sentiments.’ The former president did not mention Trump or any other politician by name. The 21-year-old white man accused of carrying out the El Paso shooting is suspected of authoring a racist, anti-Hispanic manifesto before the rampage, and many high-profile Democrats have partly blamed the president’s history of incendiary immigration rhetoric for the attack.”
–Quint Forgey, “Trump attacks Obama for statement on shootings,” Politico, August 6, 2019 8:12 am