Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) seems to think President Trump's words sound familiar.
After a weekend of mass shootings in El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio, the House Judiciary Committee chair appeared Monday on MSNBC's Morning Joe to discuss ties between Trump's rhetoric and the shooters' apparent motives. Nadler said the shootings were "clearly, at least in part, a result of [Trump's] racist rhetoric," and then went on to suggest Trump's proposed background checks were just an extension of the president's prejudice.
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