President Trump tweets and then deletes message about Sutherland Springs shooting
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Twitter users ripped into President Trump after he posted a tweet about the Sutherland Springs, Texas Church shooting nine days after it happened.
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On Tuesday night, nine days after a shooting massacre in Texas left 26 people dead, President Trump expressed his condolences in a tweet and said the law enforcement had arrived on the scene.Â
“May God be with the people of Sutherland Springs, Texas. The FBI and Law Enforcement has arrived,” he tweeted late Tuesday, shortly after returning from a 12-day trip to Asia.
By Wednesday morning, the tweet had been deleted and no longer appeared in his timeline.
The deleted tweet was similar to one he sent out about the mass shooting at a church 10 days ago:
May God be w/ the people of Sutherland Springs, Texas. The FBI law enforcement are on the scene. I am monitoring the situation from Japan.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 5, 2017
After Tuesday’s tweet, some wondered about the delay.
That was like 9 days ago.
— Benjamin Evans (@Evans_Benjamin) November 15, 2017
Right on time
— Alex™ (@WoolCorp) November 15, 2017
Trump has not yet commented publicly about a separate mass shooting that took place Tuesday in northern California. That shooting left four people dead and another 10 injured.
