Former
Texas Rep. Beto O'Rourke has no questions about what led to this past weekend's mass shootings.After 20 people were killed in his hometown of El Paso, Texas and another nine were killed in Dayton, Ohio, the
Democratic presidential candidate passionately told reporters that
President Trump is "inciting
racism and violence in this country." And in two Monday morning show appearances, he definitely didn't backtrack.O'Rourke first appeared on ABC News' This Week, where
White House correspondent Jon Karl asked if O'Rourke was saying Trump "bears responsibility for what we just saw in El Paso." "I am," O'Rourke responded, bringing up how Trump has labeled Mexicans as "rapists and criminals" and saying he "encourages the kind of open racism ... that we saw here in El Paso, Texas."
O'Rourke got even more heated during his Morning Joe spot, comparing Trump's rhetoric surrounding Mexicans and Muslims to "the Third Reich" of "Nazi Germany." He then described how fed up he was with questions of whether Trump is racist. "Jesus Christ, of course he's racist," O'Rourke said. "He's been racist since day one — before day one."