John Oliver on Trump's rhetoric 'Something we cannot afford to get numb to'

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The Last Week Tonight host connected the twin mass shootings to ‘white national and anti-immigrant hysteria’ fostered by Trump
After a weekend in which mass shootings in El Paso and Dayton killed at least 29 people and injured dozens of others, John Oliver opened Sunday’s episode of Last Week Tonight with pointed comments on the “absolutely appalling” anti-immigrant fuel underlying domestic terrorism. By the time of the show’s airing, it was widely reported that the shooter in El Paso, a 21-year-old white man, had published an anti-immigrant screed online before opening fire at a Walmart on Saturday, killing 20.
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