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Donald Trump is expected in El Paso this Wednesday, August 7 to pay tribute to the victims of the attack in which 22 people were killed Saturday. But the US president is likely to receive a cold welcome in this border town in mourning and Hispanic majority.
Several local officials accuse Donald Trump of having fueled, by his rhetoric, the hatred of white supremacists against Hispanics.
On American TVs, Veronica Escobar has trouble hiding her emotion and anger against Donald Trump. The MP is elected from El Paso District, where the Wallmart supermarket is located, where a far-right terrorist killed 22 people last Saturday .
Will be going to Dayton, Ohio and El Paso, Texas, tomorrow to meet with First Responders, Law Enforcement, and some of the victims of the terrible shoots.
Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 6, 2019For this Democratic representative, the killer's hate was directly fueled by the words of Donald Trump regularly denouncing a Hispanic invasion and calling Mexicans " rapists and criminals ".
Veronica Escobar therefore asks the President to give up her visit to El Paso: " Words have consequences. The president has made my community the enemy. He tells the country that we must be afraid of ourselves, that we must hate ourselves. I hope he will have the presence of mind to understand that we are suffering and that we are in mourning. "
Enthusiasm also limited the mayor of El Paso, who explains being forced to host Donald Trump because of his function.
As for presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke, from El Paso , he also asks the president not to come. " El Paso people do not want to see him here because they know it's part of the problem that we're here ! "
" Shut up, " Donald Trump told him in a tweet mocking his Hispanic-sounding name and reminding Beto O'Rourke that last February, at his last meeting in El Paso, he had collected several thousand his followers.