Texas Mass Shooter Was “Fulfilling Trump’s Wishes”

El Paso Matters reports:

Patrick Crusius believed he was acting at the direction of President Donald Trump when he murdered 23 people and wounded 22 others at an El Paso Walmart on Aug. 3, 2019, his defense lawyer told El Paso Matters.

“He thought he had to stop the invasion because that’s what his president was telling him, which is just not rational,” defense attorney Joe Spencer said in his first extended interview about the mass shooting that Crusius said was meant to stop “the Hispanic invasion of Texas.”

“He thought, if he doesn’t do it, then nobody’s going to do it. He’s got to start,” Spencer said. Trump visited El Paso on Aug. 7, ignoring pleas from much of El Paso’s elected leadership that he stay away because they felt his rhetoric may have played a role in the shooting.

Read the full article. Crucius was sentenced to 90 consecutive life sentences in 2023.

Walmart shooter’s manifesto was full of the same anti-immigrant rhetoric that trump, cruz, and other GOP were pushing then and continue to push today

“Patrick Crusius believed he was fulfilling trump’s wishes in El Paso attack, his attorney says” https://t.co/7ABDpdvsOr

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