'Not a white supremacist,' aide says of Trump
by Laura King, Los Angeles Times
Mar 17, 2019
4 minutes
WASHINGTON_Two days after the New Zealand mosque massacre in which 50 people were slaughtered by a white nationalist targeting Muslims, President Donald Trump's acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney said the president is "not a white supremacist" –– even as Trump took to Twitter on Sunday to praise a Fox News host whose commentary has been denounced by critics as Islamophobic.
In a manifesto distributed on social media, the Australian man arrested in Friday's attack at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand's third-most populous city, said he considered Trump "a symbol of renewed white identity and common purpose" –– although he said he did not admire
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