AP FACT CHECK: Trump's bluster on hurricanes, guns, economy

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By HOPE YEN, SETH BORENSTEIN and DARLENE SUPERVILLE today

WASHINGTON (AP) — Facing another deadly mass shooting, President Donald Trump is deflecting on gun control.

Over the weekend, he pointed to mental illness as a likely culprit behind recent shootings in Odessa, Texas, and elsewhere, even though criminologists routinely point to gun ownership as a far better predictor of public mass shootings than indicators of mental illness. There were no immediate indications Sunday that mental illness contributed to the shootings that killed 7 and injured 22 others in Texas, a state with one of the most lenient gun control laws.

Trump also repeatedly marveled over Hurricane Dorian’s size, incorrectly telling the public about its potential path and suggesting he’s never heard of a “category 5” storm before. Dorian, in fact, is the fourth category 5 storm to happen under his watch.

The claims capped a week of distortion by Trump on various fronts, from the economy to Iran and North Korea.

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November 3, 2020 cannot get here fast enough..........................

[handmade34]

1. already too late

why he is not gone is beyond comprehension

[procon]

2. Thanks Republicans for this incompetent,

lying fraud who trying to pass himself off as "The President." This buffoon is your kinda guy, the best of the best, cream of the crop, yeah?

You put a racist, sexist, sadistic, white supremacist in the Oval Office. Even though he's the stupidest man in the world, he's still conning the lot of you ignorant, gullible, enabling fools.

[Mc Mike]

3. Step one: lose, fail miserably, don't bother trying to work to succeed.

Step two: claim wild success, the greatest victory, whine how people won't thank you enough or say how great you are.