Beto O’Rourke: Trump ‘directed’ El Paso massacre

Published September 13, 2019 2:40pm ET



During a Friday morning interview, presidential hopeful Beto O’Rourke criticized comments made by Julián Castro during Thursday night’s debate, characterizing his perceived attack on Joe Biden’s age as “petty.”

“I wasn’t really excited about that,” O’Rourke said of Castro’s remarks before immediately pivoting to an assertion that President Trump “directed” the massacre in El Paso this August that claimed the lives of more than 20 people.

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