Trump was pictured kicking back at his New Jersey golf club over the weekend in the midst of mass shooting fallout

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As lawmakers and group leaders reeled after a mass shootings claimed 20 in El Paso, President Donald Trump was once pictured playing his weekend holiday.

Trump arrived at Trump Nationwide Golfing Membership on Friday night time, in keeping with White Space pool experiences. Hours after 20 other folks have been killed and 26 injured after a gunman opened hearth in an El Paso Walmart, Trump was pictured greeting visitors at a wedding in the membership.

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The shooter in El Paso was arrested, and authorities are investigating whether an anti-immigrant manifesto that was posted online prior to the taking pictures was once written by means of the shooter. 

Trump denounced the El Paso attack, pronouncing in a tweet Saturday that it "was not just tragic, it was once an act of cowardice. He brought: "i know that I stand with everyone in this Us Of A to condemn modern day hateful act. There are no reasons or excuses that will ever justify killing blameless folks."

Lawmakers slammed Trump for the tweets of condolence, which perceived to be his handiest reaction as he remained at the club.

After 9 other folks have been killed in a well-liked nightlife district in Dayton, Ohio early Sunday morning, state lawmakers and Democratic 2020 candidates drew a right away line of accountability to Trump for "encouraging" a culture of hate and violence with his rhetoric.

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"He's encouraging this," former Texas Rep. Beto O'Rourke advised host Jake Tapper. "He does not just tolerate it, he encourages it, calling immigrants rapists and criminals and looking to ban everyone of one religion."

The 2020 Democratic hopeful introduced explicit examples of Trump's most blatant insults to minorities or immigrants, together with Trump's 2016 campaign talking element to ban Muslims from coming into the u.s., his statement that there have been "very fantastic other people" on both sides of the 2017 Charlottesville neo-Nazi rally, and his contemporary assaults on lawmakers of colour.

On NBC's "Meet the click," New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker told host Chuck Todd that Trump's general condemnations of the attack weren't enough.

"to say not anything in a time of emerging hatred, it is not sufficient to say 'I'm now not a hate monger myself,'" Booker mentioned. "When You are not actively operating in opposition to hate, calling it out, you might be complicit in what's happening."

Ohio Sen. Sherrod Brown criticized President Donald Trump for what he known as his "divisive, racist rhetoric that he has employed an increasing number of."

"I do understand that we have now had two presidents, the two preceding presidents who handled negative terrorism and mass shootings and attempted to heal and this president doesn't," Brown said on "State of the Union."

Trump did not instantly respond to the Sunday morning comments. He Is scheduled to spend the day golfing till FOUR p.m. sooner than leaving for Washington.

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