In a now-familiar scenario, White House aides found themselves in the position Sunday of attempting to distance Trump from previous remarks criticized as racially insensitive or worse — at the same time that he was again expressing similar sentiments.
Flowers rest at a roadblock as two police officers stand guard by the makeshift memorial near the Linwood mosque in Christchurch, New Zealand, on Saturday. A 28-year-old white supremacist from Australia is accused in mass shootings at mosques that left 50 dead.
“The president is not a white supremacist. I’m not sure how many times we have to say that,” he said. In a separate interview on CBS’ “Face the Nation,” Mulvaney, also discussing the New Zealand attack, said:"I don't think anybody could say that the president is anti-Muslim." after she questioned whether the first allegiance of Rep. Ilhan Omar — a Minnesota Democrat who is one of three Muslim lawmakers in the House of Representatives — was to Islamic law or the U.S. Constitution.On Sunday morning, Trump, during a barrage of tweets, urged viewers to rally around Pirro and another Fox host, Tucker Carlson, who has been under fire after old audio emerged of Carlson calling Iraqis “primitive monkeys” and also making lewd remarks about teen beauty contestants.
Meanwhile, signs grew that the role of racial rhetoric in inspiring or discouraging attacks by extremists will be an issue in the 2020 campaign. Sen. Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota, who declared her candidacy for the Democratic nomination last month, said on CNN’s “State of the Union” that as president, Trump needed to speak out clearly and specifically against attacks on Muslims.
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said authorities hoped to release all the bodies by Wednesday. Islamic law calls for bodies to be cleansed and buried as soon as possible after death, usually within a day. "There's a role for our leaders to play in raising the level of civil dialogue in our country and lowering the levels of extremist speech," said Johnson, who served in the Obama administration. “Americans do listen to their leaders.”
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