President Donald Trump said Saturday that \u201cthe hearts of all Americans are filled with grief\u201d after a mass shooting at a Pittsburgh synagogue left at least 11 people dead, and he called on the country to combat hate crimes together.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt will require all of us working together to extract the hateful poison of anti-Semitism,\u201d Trump said to a rally crowd here at an airplane hangar in rural Illinois. \u201cThe scourge of anti-Semitism can\u2019t be ignored.\u201d<\/p>\n
Still, Trump again demonstrated that he would not be swayed from the call of the campaign trail during a politically volatile and violent midterm election season.<\/p>\n
In minutes, Trump moved from a call for unity to attacking and name-calling Democrats, including his former presidential rival, Hillary Clinton, and leading lawmakers like Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Rep. Maxine Waters.<\/p>\n
Rather than hang back at the White House, the president barreled forward to Illinois to support Rep. Mike Bost, a Republican in a tight race for re-election. Trump received counterterrorism briefings on the road. He delivered real-time shooting \u201cresults\u201d to the country between Air Force One stops and urged Americans to fight religious and racial prejudice. And he repeatedly said that the death penalty should be enforced.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe can\u2019t make these sick, demented, evil people important,\u201d Trump said to his rally crowd. \u201cWhen we change all of our lives in order to accommodate them, it\u2019s not acceptable.\u201d<\/p>\n
On Saturday, Trump made a stop at an Indiana farming convention before a busy schedule in the coming week in the run-up to the elections, when at least 10 campaign events are scheduled. Trump also said that he intended to visit Pittsburgh.<\/p>\n
Hours before his latest rally, Trump said that the nation\u2019s gun laws had \u201clittle to do\u201d with the shooting and suggested that the synagogue should have had an armed guard in place.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf they had protection inside, the results would have been far better,\u201d he said. \u201cThis is a dispute that will always exist, I suspect.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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