Donald Trump has said that “hate has no place in our country” following the two mass shootings that left 29 people dead in El Paso,
Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, over the weekend, blaming the killings on mental illness rather than white nationalism.The president, who spent the weekend playing
golf at his club in Bedminster, New Jersey, has been heavily criticised over his rhetoric in the run up to the attacks, with
Democratic 2020 challenger Cory Booker accusing him of “sowing seeds of hate in this country”.El Paso native Beto O’Rourke agreed Mr Trump was responsible for encouraging
racism and former
FBI director James Comey wrote in The
New York Times that the president was stirring the “radioactive racist soup in the centre of our national life”.Please allow a moment for our liveblog to load