Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer is attempting to blame President Donald Trump after a reported leftist shot at an ICE detention facility in Dallas, Texas, leaving multiple detainees dead or injured.
During an interview on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” Schumer immediately attacked Trump in the wake of another politically motivated shooting, claiming that Trump’s rhetoric has contributed to such attacks.
“It has to come from the top, and like on so many other things, Donald Trump is deficient in this, totally deficient,” Schumer claimed.
Schumer noted Trump’s response to the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, saying he spent the day after the shooting placing blame on the left “instead of just bringing Americans together to mourn.”
“Donald Trump’s busy pointing fingers before he even had evidence,” Schumer said. “That doesn’t help.”
Schumer said he did not yet know everything that happened at the ICE office in Dallas, but condemned the violence as “just terrible.”
“Everybody, right, left, center, I don’t care what your politics are, has to speak out strongly against it,” he said.
Schumer conceded that he did not know what weapon was used to shoot at the Dallas ICE detention facility, but immediately demanded “better laws on guns.”
“We got something done a few years ago, but it’s just rampant, and we have to do more,” he said. “I’m the author of the Brady Law, the assault weapons ban. It’s become almost every day one of these things happen, and we can’t just sit there and do nothing.”
“There are many more things we can do about gun trafficking, about who sells the guns, how they get the guns,” Schumer said. “There are things we can do without impinging on the rights of law-abiding citizens to own guns.”
