Trump to visit El Paso. He is not welcome there.

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/...-trump-1448020

El Paso congresswoman to Trump: Don't come here

Rep. Veronica Escobar said Monday that President Donald Trump "is not welcome" in her hometown of El Paso, Texas, as the city recovers from a mass shooting that killed 21 people and wounded more than two dozen.

"From my perspective, he is not welcome here. He should not come here while we are in mourning," Escobar, a Democrat whose district includes nearly all of El Paso, told MSNBC's "Morning Joe." "I would encourage the president's staff members to have him do a little self-reflection. I would encourage them to show him his own words and his actions at the rallies."

Later Monday, Democratic 2020 hopeful and former Rep. Beto O'Rourke — who represented El Paso until earlier this year, when he was replaced by Escobar after his failed Senate campaign — joined the congresswoman in saying Trump shouldn't come to the city. He told a reporter from the Corpus Christi Caller Times that Trump has "helped to create what we saw in El Paso on Saturday. He's helped to produce the suffering that we are experiencing right now. This community needs to heal."

On Saturday afternoon, a gunman opened fire at a Walmart in El Paso, a city that has been in the national spotlight in recent months amid controversy over the treatment of migrants at a nearby detention facility. Authorities said the Walmart was at capacity as people from both El Paso and Ciudad Juárez, a Mexican city just across the border, were shopping for the new school year.

The suspect in the attack, a 21-year-old white man who is in custody, is believed to have posted a racist, anti-immigrant manifesto online shortly before opening fire, warning of a "Hispanic invasion of Texas." The Justice Department said Sunday that it is treating the shooting as an act of terrorism.

Escobar joined some politicians and 2020 Democratic candidates in linking Trump's rhetoric about minority communities to increased violence. On Monday, she said Trump came into "one of the safest communities in the nation" and months later, so did a gunman.

"Words have consequences," she said. "And the president has made my community and my people the enemy. He has told the country that we are people to be feared, people to be hated."

The El Paso shooting came less than a week after a shooting at a garlic festival in Gilroy, Calif., that left three dead and a dozen injured. Hours after the El Paso shooting, a gunman opened fire in Dayton, Ohio, killing nine and wounding dozens more.

Trump offered his condolences for Dayton and El Paso over the weekend, telling reporters "hate has no place in our country." On Monday, he tweeted the country should never forget the victims and those who came before them, calling for bipartisan background check legislation for gun purchases. But he also suggested that such legislation be tied to his long-sought immigration proposals, likely making it a political nonstarter.

"We must have something good, if not GREAT, come out of these two tragic events!" he wrote.

Trump is expected to visit both cities this week. The Federal Aviation Administration on Monday issued advisories of VIP travel to El Paso and Dayton for this Wednesday.

Let Beto help them.

Is she going to ask Gov. Abbott to call out the Texas National Guard to stop Trump? Let's have the Texas Air National Guard launch a fighter squadron to shoot down Air Force One before he can land.

just another pro-ILLEGAL immigration politician blathering.

nothing to see here.

Sad day for America.

Nothing to see here.

Fine American.

Some welcome him. Some don't.

Last # I saw was 7 out of the 21 victims were Latino.

Don't the other 14 count ?

Who's going to visit Dayton....Oh(io) that's right it doesn't fit the templet of the left!!
Since you're on a Trump shooting rage...please see if you can get them linked...
Another 5-star gem YR!!
P.S. Please tell us about the Dayton shooters connection to "white supremacy" and TRUMP!!

Ignoring

Some welcome him. Some don't.

Last # I saw was 7 out of the 21 victims were Latino.

Don't the other 14 count ? Originally Posted by Joey_Gleet

So is it your contention that Trump is welcomed by all white people in El Paso?

Or is there some other point you’re trying to make with that question?

Btw — death toll now at 22

So is it your contention that Trump is welcomed by all white people in El Paso?

Or is there some other point you’re trying to make with that question?

Btw — death toll now at 22 Originally Posted by Yssup Rider

once again Captain deflect and deny misses the point of the post. he meant not all victims were Latino. So regardless of the shooter's intentions, non-Hispanics were also targeted.

once again Captain deflect and deny misses the point of the post. he meant not all victims were Latino. So regardless of the shooter's intentions, non-Hispanics were also targeted. Originally Posted by The_Waco_Kid

Yup.

I don't recall Obama being blamed for the many shootings that happened during his presidency. The Sandy Hook asshole was an animal rights activist and a vegan.
There were also two attacks on Jewish centers in Seattle and Overland Park, outside of Kansas City. I suppose we can blame Obamas muslim sympathies for those.

One politician, and OP - purport to speak for all of the city of el Paso, and surrounding areas.

Gotta give it to the DPST's - they over-reach everything.

I could care less what DPST Escobar says - she is already pledged for impachment - ala tlaib and the fearsome Foursome. And OP
More blathering and bloviating for the LSM, and perhaps a small number of like minded posters on Forum.

Trump will make his trip independent of anything this DPST bleats.

LOL

The mayor of El Paso is welcoming him. So are many of the City's residents.

Yssup - do you not agree with President Trump? I mean you keep harping how Trump likes hate speech - well - he will give them the ultimate penality. (That means like the most you can give a person) You should be excited. You wanted him to do something about these people and he is going to. In fact, you owe President Trump an apology. You should write him a letter and state how sorry you are and how you are going to repent.

Wow ! That means he’ll do it, right?

I feel so much safer.

Especially with all that DOJ legislation.


Yow!

https://www.latimes.com/world-nation...resident-trump

‘We were safe until he started talking’: El Paso residents respond to President Trump

Watching President Trump step up to a White House podium Monday to assert that “hate has no place in America,” many people in this Texas border city were dumbfounded.

“We were safe until he started talking,” John Smith-Davis, 47, a retired Army veteran, said as he mourned with his friends at a memorial near the Walmart where a gunman opened fire Saturday. “He made us a target with his hateful rhetoric.”

Veronica Sanchez, a 23-year-old dental assistant, put it more succinctly: “He has said enough.”

El Paso, whose 680,000 people are mostly Latino and mostly Democrats, has long viewed Trump warily — and his most forceful statement since the massacre that has now claimed 22 lives there did little to change that.

Wow ! That means he’ll do it, right?

I feel so much safer.

Especially with all that DOJ legislation.


Yow! Originally Posted by Yssup Rider

Want to feel safer? Start packing your own heat.