A week after the El Paso massacre, Trump was still being hit for the toxic gap between his rhetoric and the shooter’s anti-immigrant framing. Even as the White House tried to pivot to unity, the president’s own comments kept dragging the story back toward grievance, immigration fearmongering, and political blame-shifting. The result was a widening sense that Trump had not just failed the moment, but had helped create the conditions for the backlash that followed it.
A week after the El Paso massacre, Trump was still being hit for the toxic gap between his rhetoric and the shooter’s anti-immigrant framing. Even as the White House tried to pivot to unity, the president’s own comments kept dragging the story back toward grievance, immigration fearmongering, and political blame-shifting. The result was a widening sense that Trump had not just failed the moment, but had helped creat…
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