Tag: shooting victims

Trump says he’s going to ‘have a little fun’ while visiting families of shooting victims

The following article by Melanie Schmitz was posted on the ThinkProgress website May 31, 2018:

“We’re going to Dallas and Houston and we will have a little fun today.”

Trump told reporters Thursday that he plans to ‘have a little fun’ while visiting the families of victims killed in the Santa Fe High Sschool Shooting. Credit: Fox News, screenshot

President Donald Trump promised that he would “have a little fun” while taking a trip to visit the families of shooting victims on Thursday.

Speaking with reporters on the tarmac at Joint Base Andrews Thursday morning, the president detailed his schedule for the day, boasting about the state of the economy and ongoing efforts to arrange a previously scrapped meeting between Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. Continue reading “Trump says he’s going to ‘have a little fun’ while visiting families of shooting victims”

Today’s WorldView: An Act of American Terror in Trump’s Heartland

The following article by Ishaan Tharoor was in the February 27, 2017 Washington Post’s Today’s World View e-newsletter:

To most Americans, a shooting that took place last Wednesday will be remembered as just another incident of gun violence in a country where homicides are tragically commonplace and where far too many disturbed loners have ready access to firearms.

To many Indians, though, the murder of Srinivas Kuchibhotla in a suburban Kansas town was the harshest warning yet about the reality of President Trump’s America.

Kuchibhotla, an aviation systems engineer at satellite navigation company Garmin, was having an after-work drink with his friend and colleague Alok Madasani at their regular bar in Olathe, a town 20 miles southwest of Kansas City. The duo, Indian nationals who both received their masters degrees in the United States and were on valid visas, were confronted by 51-year-old Adam Purinton, who started hectoring them with ethnic slurs. Continue reading “Today’s WorldView: An Act of American Terror in Trump’s Heartland”