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TRUMP, 8/7: "I’m looking to do background checks... I think we can bring up background checks like we’ve never had before... [Congress is] getting close to a bill"

[Trump calls NRA president]

TRUMP, 8/25: "People don't realize we have very strong background checks right now"
Since Trump abandoned any effort to curb gun violence, authorities arrested 6 people allegedly planning mass murders, including 4 linked to right-wing ideologies.

2 POTENTIAL MASS MURDERERS WERE ARRESTED YESTERDAY

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ARRESTS:

Eric Lin, linked to neo-Nazis (8/20)

Thomas McVicker (8/20)

James P. Reardon, white nationalist (8/17)

Tristan Wix (8/16)

Brandon Wagshol, posted racist screeds (8/15)

Conor Climo, linked to neo-Nazis (8/9)

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1. I founded @thinkprogress and spend a decade of my career building it from scratch and I just found out it was being shut down from this Daily Beast article thedailybeast.com/thinkprogress-…
@thinkprogress 2. I joined CAP in 2003 and was one of the first employees and I joined because I believed in the mission of creating permanent progressive infrastructure

It's disheartening that CAP no longer believes that independent progressive journalism is worth supporting
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REALITY: Despite massive corporate tax cut, job growth has been considerably SLOWER in the first 3 years of the Trump presidency than is was in the last three years of the Obama presidency
It's not bad but the idea that we are experiencing and unprecedented jobs boom is a complete farce.
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1. Republicans and the gun lobby insisted for YEARS that closing the background check loophole was unnecessary and would only burden law-abiding citizens.

They were wrong.

And now seven people are dead.

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2. The gunman in Texas this weekend failed a background check in 2014 and obtained his AR-15 through the "private sale" loophole.

Trump assured us during his campaign that THIS IS NOT HOW CRIMINALS OBTAIN GUNS

He was wrong.

Now 7 people are dead.

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3. Mitch McConnell filibustered a bill that would have closed the background check loophole in 2013.

He called universal background checks a "direct assault" on "our freedom" by "gun-grabbers."

He was wrong.

Now 7 people are dead.

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