Karl: Isn't Trump's Rhetoric 'Just Dangerous' 'Especially in Light of What We've Just Seen?'

Ryan Foley | August 5, 2019
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Less than 24 hours after the mass shootings in El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio, fill-in host Jonathan Karl interviewed Acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney on Sunday's edition of ABC's This Week. Karl's interview with Mulvaney came just about an hour after arguing that it was "fair" to blame President Trump for the mass shootings. Karl picked up on that idea during his interview with Mulvaney; mentioning that Beto O'Rourke said "the President's rhetoric is fueling more hate in this country" before editorializing: "the President has used, as you well know, words like 'invasion' to talk about illegal immigrants...He tweeted at those four progressive Congresswomen...all women of color, saying they should go back to their countries." Karl asked Mulvaney "isn't this kind of rhetoric, especially in light of what we've just seen, isn't it just dangerous?" After Mulvaney argued that President Trump doesn't deserve blame for the shooting just like Bernie Sanders didn't deserve blame for the shooting carried out by one of his supporters at the Congressional baseball practice, Karl basically repeated his question, asking "What do you say to Americans who say look at what happened in El Paso and say that the President's rhetoric is in part to blame?" Karl spent the rest of the conversation accusing President Trump of downplaying the threat of white nationalism, an idea which Mulvaney strongly pushed back on.

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