Protesters hold signs reading 'Do Something' and 'Welcome to Toledo' as Pres. Trump visits Dayton, Ohio, following last weekend's mass shooting.
President Donald Trump arrived in Dayton, Ohio, on Wednesday to visit the city where nine people were gunned down over the weekend in the second of two mass shootings, before heading to El Paso later in the day where 22 people were killed at a Walmart in Texas.
"This person supported Bernie Sanders, Antifa and Elizabeth Warren I understand -- nothing to do with President Trump," he said, speaking to reporters on the White House South Lawn, referring to two of the 2020 Democratic candidates and the left-wing, anti-fascist group. In fact, the shooter demonstrated a variety of hatreds, and his misogyny actually jumped out to investigators as being far more extreme than his political expressions, two officials briefed on the Dayton investigation told ABC News.
Asked about the threat of white supremacy, Trump said,"I am very concerned about the rise of any group of hate. I don't like it, any group of hate, whether it's white supremacy, whether it's any other kind of supremacy, with it's Antifa -- I am very concerned about it and I'll do something about it."
At the same time, Trump appeared to downplay any effort to restrict or ban assault weapons or high-capacity ammunition magazines of the kinds used in the shootings, saying there's"great appetite to do something to make sure that mentally unstable, seriously ill people aren't carrying guns ... I have not seen it in regard to certain types of weapons."
"Why would he want to come? That would be my first -- I know he's our president, but he has promoted a lot of this -- all this anger. He has promoted it across the nation and it needs to stop, it needs to stop," Bill Aguirre, a veteran and El Paso native told ABC News. On Twitter Tuesday, she also posted a thread about how she declined the president's invitation to join him during his visit to El Paso and said she requested a phone call with him instead.
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