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One woman personally affected by the mass murder in El Paso, Texas, last Saturday is outraged over the “pure evil” exhibited by Democratic politicians who refused to welcome President Donald Trump to the city. Deborah Anchondo is the sister of Andre Anchondo, who, along with his wife Jordan, heroically died while shielding his 2-month-old son from bullets during the shooting. Deborah took to Facebook to tear into Democrats for their divisive comments towards President Trump. She said it's time to heal and unite, not play politics immediately after the tragic shooting. Deborah also slammed local Democratic politicians who said Trump...

The manifesto written by accused El Paso mass killer is the basis for the argument that the shootings were inspired by President Trump. Media commentators, Democratic presidential candidates have made that case in the days since the murders. Since the manifesto has become such an important part of the moment's political debate, it is worth looking at the whole thing. And the impression one gets after reading the manifesto is quite different than some press accounts. First, to be clear: The manifesto is insane. Part of it discussed commonly debated issues such as the environment and the economy in ways...

NEW YORK — In separate articles on the same day, the New York Times and Washington Post each seemingly parroted the same talking points 11 times in respective articles in their zest to baselessly connect President Trump’s rhetoric and policies to an unhinged manifesto attributed to the 21-year-old accused of murdering 22 people in cold blood and injuring dozens when he opened fire in a Walmart in El Paso. The manifesto is clearly the work of a demented mind and expressed views that are all over the map, yet both newspapers selectively cited the document to divine the El Paso...

We want to express our deepest sympathies to the families and victims in El Paso and Dayton. As always, the NRA will work in good faith to pursue real solutions to the violence we witnessed this past weekend. Real solutions save lives – televised, choreographed spectacles don’t. In support of this goal, we appreciate the need for honest and open dialogue on how to stop these horrific murders. As a group that has advocated for Second Amendment freedoms for almost 150 years, we stand for only the safe and lawful use of firearms. Sadly, El Paso and Dayton were not...

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Their egos steamroll over victims and their families to get themselves in front of the media All the hate talk spewed out by Democrat politicians as the bereaved in El Paso and Dayton prepare to bury their dead couldn’t possibly tell a bigger story about how political egos take precedence over even the most traumatic human tragedies. The ‘Me-First’ attitudes of vainglorious Democrat presidential hopefuls former Congressman ‘Beto’ O’Rourke, Senators Liz Warren, Bernie Sanders et al block comfort and condolences for the survivors of the shooting massacres in El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio, which combined took some 31 lives,...

Washington • It is not just his stoking of white supremacist sentiment that makes Donald Trump such a dangerously unfit president. It’s also the corruption, the weakness, the ignorance, the incompetence and the stunning lack of empathy — all of which we saw this week on grotesque display. What kind of man visits two grieving communities, shattered by horrific mass shootings, and somehow makes it all about him? I covered the Virginia Tech shooting in 2007 and had trouble sleeping for weeks afterward; colleagues of mine have had similar reactions to other massacres. Yet what apparently lingered with President Trump...

Hey kid, I get it: some days you’re just not feeling it. Four-year-old princess Charlotte showed her cheeky side at The King's Cup regatta. When mum Kate Middleton told her to wave to onlookers after the race Charlotte decided to stick her tongue out instead. Mum of course was appalled. Trust me hon, sometimes adults feel the same way.The President and Melania on the way to El PasoBut when you grow up you have to put on your adult face and do what you need to do no matter how you feel.POTUS and FLOTUS in El Paso, DaytonUnless, that is,...

This past Saturday a mentally unhinged gunman walked into a Wal-Mart in El Paso, TX and brutally murdered 22 innocent people. The gunman, who for decency’s sake shall remain nameless, was a deranged white nationalist. The mainstream media and Democrat politicians alike, never ones to let an opportunity to smear Donald Trump go by, even (or especially) in times of national mourning, quickly tried to tie President Trump to the shooter. Unlike previous false narratives about the president, this one is especially disgusting. Unlike the Russia Collusion false narrative which became almost comical towards its eventual evaporation with the Mueller Report,...

George Conway, a vocal Trump critic and the husband of White House counselor Kellyanne Conway, tweeted a political cartoon Wednesday with one panel showing President Trump encouraging a gunman in the wake of mass shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, over the weekend. One side of the cartoon shows Trump telling a gunman phrases from his campaign and public comments about undocumented immigrants, such as “Build the wall,” “It’s an invasion” and “They’re criminals.” The other side shows the president yelling “You’re mentally ill!” at the gunman with the two surrounded by dead bodies. The cartoon, from the...

The establishment media has revealed themselves as the rabid activists they really are this week, using two horrific shootings to turn their slow march into a full charge. They have put one half of the country in their sights, defaming them as white supremacists, racists or worse. On Monday, MSNBC anchor Nicolle Wallace claimed that “President Trump was talking about ‘exterminating Latinos.’ ” Not until the next day did she tweet that she “misspoke.”

As Byron York asks “Has anyone actually read the El Paso manifesto?”Answer: Irrelevant. If anyone in the MSM has read Crusius’ manifesto they certainly are not reporting on the murderer’s rant which he titled “An Inconvenient Truth” because it contains well, far too many inconvenient truths. Beginning with the fact that his inspiration was Christchurch, New Zealand murderer Brenton Tarrant, not President Trump. Nothing else should surprise anyone anymore but Aaron Klein at Breitbart lays out the incohesive ramblings of the sick and not-so-bright mind of Patrick Crusius in “Nine Themes in El Paso Shooter’s Manifesto the Media Ignored to...

The head of the House Judiciary Committee appears to be preparing to call members of his panel back to Washington, D.C., from their August recess to oversee a markup of gun violence legislation following two deadly mass shootings, sources tell The Hill. Nothing has been set yet, according to three Judiciary sources, but they say things appears to be in motion after the committee held a members-only phone call early Wednesday afternoon to discuss the prospect of returning to the beltway in order to address the renewed and heated debate over the nation’s gun laws. Judiciary Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.)...

(CNN)The El Paso shooting suspect's mother called the Allen, Texas, Police Department weeks before the shooting because she was concerned about her son owning an "AK" type firearm, lawyers for the family confirmed to CNN. The mother contacted police because she was worried about her son owning the weapon given his age, maturity level and lack of experience handling such a firearm, attorneys Chris Ayres and R. Jack Ayres said. During the call, the mother was transferred to a public safety officer who told her that -- based on her description of the situation -- her son, 21, was legally...

"Two supporters of President Trump, a black woman and a Latino woman–and their children, needed police protection after speaking out at a public memorial for the shooting victims at the El Paso Walmart Wednesday while Trump was in town paying his respects to the survivors and first responders."

In the wake of the horrific mass shooting in El Paso, Texas, liberals have decided to ban another word: illegal immigrant. Despite the fact that it’s been used in the political lexicon for decades, it’s now seen as a call for violence…if you’re an unhinged liberal. In journalism, illegal immigrant (or alien) was used—and nothing happened. Why? Well, because there’s a special class of people who commit these mass shootings, most are mentally ill. And in the case of El Paso, the shooter seemed like a loser fuming over the fact he lost a job opportunity at a local store....

President Donald Trump said that Robert “Beto” O’Rourke shouldn’t oppose him visiting El Paso, where a mass shooting took place over the weekend. Trump, writing early Aug. 7, and poised to visit the border city later on Wednesday, wrote on Twitter that O’Rourke should mind his own business, especially in light of polling so low among Democratic primary voters and after what happened last time the president visited the city. “Beto (phony name to indicate Hispanic heritage) O’Rourke, who is embarrassed by my last visit to the Great State of Texas, where I trounced him, and is now even more...

Before President Trump boarded his plane to Dayton, Ohio and El Paso, Texas on Wednesday to meet with communities in mourning, he spoke with reporters on the White House lawn. The press particularly wanted to know what he thought of his accusers tying his rhetoric to the shooting in El Paso. The suspect used language similar to that of Trump's immigration remarks in his online manifesto, according to some. President Trump speaks to reporters before departing for his visits to Dayton and El Paso and says critics of his rhetoric are "people who are looking for political gain" https://t.co/FkjDJtROch...

Rep. Veronica Escobar (D-TX) said Monday on MSNBC's 'Morning Joe' that President Trump is "not welcome" to come to the town while they are in mourning. It is shocking to me that he is so utterly self-aware. And this is why from my perspective he is not welcome here. He should not come here while we are in mourning." ZINGER OF A COMEBACK: Ms. Escobar is not the arbiter of who is and is not welcome anywhere other than her own home. Her statement is an expression of egotism, and of a type of self-righteousness that says, "If you don't...

This should be easy. We're all on the same side. When a white supremacist terrorist shoots up a Walmart filled with innocents in El Paso, we should all be on the same side. We should be mourning together; we should be fighting together. Instead, we're fighting one another. We're fighting one another for one simple reason: Too many on the political left have become accustomed to castigating the character of those who disagree with the left on policy. Favor tougher border controls? This puts you on the side of the white supremacist terrorist. Believe in Second Amendment rights? You're a...