President Donald Trump offered support Monday for an effort to strengthen the federal gun background check system as he hunkered down at his private Florida golf course just 40 miles from last week’s deadly school shooting.
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“How dare you”, he added. From my perspective, at this stage of investigating Russian involvement in the 2016 presidential election and possible collusion between Russia and Trump, the good guys seem to be Christopher Steele and the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Aides have long cautioned Trump against tweeting about special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation, with one senior White House official conceding the weekend tweets were not helpful to the president.
Trump’s schedule for the week, released Sunday, includes a “listening session” with high school students and teachers, though the White House did not immediately provide any information on who would be attending Wednesday’s meeting.
The FBI has a broad mandate and spends every day focusing on multiple threats at once – terrorists, bank robbers, child predators, cyber criminals, corrupt politicians, gun traffickers, foreign spies, and many more.
Florida Gov. Rick Scott was in attendance at a church service Sunday just a few blocks from the high school where a shooting rampage killed 17 people.
His comments came as he faces criticism from survivors of the attack over his ties to the powerful National Rifle Association, and after several thousand rallied in Florida to demand urgent action on gun control. Hoffman said. “It’s the end of the road for me”.
Organizers are calling for a 17-minute walkout by teachers and students on March 14. David Hogg, a 17-year-old student at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, said: ‘You’re the president.
The FBI said last week it had failed to follow “protocols” when it received a tip earlier this year about the alleged shooter, 19-year-old Nikolas Cruz. We did report him, we tried. The investigator was “concerned about (Cruz’s) talk about wanting to purchase a gun and feeling depressed”, according to the agency’s investigation records. The president’s been very adamant to say he didn’t collude.
Soon after the shooting, several legislative leaders were taken on a tour of the school to see the damage firsthand and appeared shaken afterward.
Referring to gun-control advocates, he said: “Sometimes I wish they were right, that this would fix it, but it won’t”.
“We had this monster living under our roof and we didn’t know”, Kimberly Snead told the newspaper in an interview published Sunday.
“But instead we are up here standing together because if all our Government and President can do is send “thoughts and prayers”, then it’s time for victims to be the change that we need to see”.
“Everything everybody seems to know we didn’t know”, James Snead told ABC News’ Good Morning America. “It’s as simple as that”.
Cruz later passed a background check, allowing him in February 2017 to buy the AR-15 rifle used in the massacre.
But previous gun tragedies have not produced action in Congress. He had asked only twice since November. US officials said they settled because they expected the tribunal to rule on the claim soon and assess higher interest.
“It was created to say it was very clear these 13 individuals in this set of companies were trying to interfere in our election”, said Lankford, who sits on the Senate Intelligence Committee.
His mother was called in more than a dozen times for conferences and Cruz was frequently sent to counseling.
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He closed saying, saying, “I for one am very, very, very, very exhausted of this…” and showed a series of clips of politicians dodging the gun control issue with the popular “Now is not the time”, mantra.
