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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
John Bowden

Buffalo mass shooting: Former Trump official says Republican rhetoric is directly fueling domestic terrorism

LINCOLN JOURNAL STAR

A former official in Donald Trump’s administration is sounding the alarm about the danger of far-right rhetoric in the wake of the mass shooting in Buffalo, New York.

Miles Taylor, a former deputy chief of staff at the Department of Homeland Security, wrote on Twitter early on Sunday morning that the words of “leaders” of the GOP, including presumably Donald Trump, was responsible for “directly” inspiring violence like the attack an 18-year-old is accused of carrying out in a Buffalo supermarket on Saturday that left 10 dead and others injured.

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