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Despite President Trump’s strong condemnation of the recent synagogue shooting at the Chabad of Poway and anti-Semitism as a whole at a rally Saturday night, ABC political analyst Matthew Dowd blamed Trump for the shooting during Sunday’s This Week on ABC. Dowd went so far as to claim Trump’s rhetoric gave the shooter “permission” to act.
As they were approaching the end of the program, host George Stephanopoulos suggested he saw a “real pattern here. We're seeing it again and again and again. Spread over the internet. Even earlier in the week in Sunnyvale, California, a man drives a car into a crowd he thinks is going to be filled with Muslims. This seems to be contagious.”
In spite of the fact that the driver in the Sunnyvale case was black, Dowd launched into a rant about how “radical white extremism” was on the rise in America and suggested, “it's actually a much bigger problem within America than radical Islam”.
After a quick detour to push gun control, Dowd demanded that President Trump “look in the mirror and understand that the rhetoric, the words he uses in all of this inflame a big part of what’s going on in America, give permission to the most craziest people in America.”
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