Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) wasn't comforted by President Trump's remarks on Monday in response to the mass shootings over the weekend in El Paso and Dayton, which left 31 people dead.
The El Paso shooting suspect is believed to have posted a screed online saying the massacre was "a response to the Hispanic invasion of Texas." Trump, who has used the word "invasion" to refer to immigrants arriving at the southern border, said the U.S. has to "condemn racism, bigotry, and white supremacy." Schiff told ABC 7 Los Angeles that "to hear the president talk today about we all need to be united — well he's the biggest part of this problem in terms of using this incendiary language, this dehumanizing language about people coming to this country being invaders. This is the same stuff the El Paso shooter was talking about in his manifesto."
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