Small Comfort:Protesters greeted President Trump in Dayton and El Paso yesterday when he arrived to meet with emergency workers and families of the dead from last weekend’s gun massacres.

   In Dayton they chanted “Do Something! Do Something!” while pro-Trumpers shouted “USA, USA” as if they were proud of mass shootings.

   A Trump visit to El Paso is a sore subject. He has wrongly described the city as one of the most dangerous in America, and so far, like his dealings in private business, his campaign has stiffed the city for half a million dollars in costs for a political rally he held there in February. 

  Ohio Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown said he told the president, “Respectfully, the best thing he could do for these police officers is take these assault weapons off the streets.” The President and other Republicans later attacked him, accusing Brown of being dishonest about the content of the meeting.

  While attempting to be the consoler-in-chief, Trump was in attack mode all day. Here is the list of people and organizations Trump verbally insulted while on his sympathy tour: Ohio Senator Sherrod Brown; Dayton Mayor Nan Whaley; “Sleepy Joe Biden”; Bernie Sanders; Elizabeth Warren; Shepard Smith of Fox News; “Fake News CNN”; “The Failing New York Times”; “The Lamestream Media.”

  Before he departed Washington, Trump dismissed criticism that his divisive language was at all responsible for motivating shootings. “I think my rhetoric brings people together,” he said. “Our country is doing really well.” But in his attack on the mayor of Dayton, he called her a supporter of Senator Bernie Sanders and of antifa, the far left “anti-fascist” group. He said, “I’m concerned about the rise of any type of hate. I don’t like it. Any type of supremacy, whether it’s white supremacy or antifa.”

  So far, no one connected with “antifa” has gunned down anyone.

White Lies:Fox Newshost Tucker Carlson kicked up the dust Tuesday night when he dismissed concerns about the white supremacy movement in America, which political opponents have accused President Trump of feeding.

  It’s “just like the Russia hoax,” Carlson told viewers Tuesday night. “It’s a conspiracy theory used to divide the country and keep a hold on power.

  White supremacy has been a thread in mass shootings.

  President Trump has been accused of encouraging white supremacists with his condemnations of illegal immigrants, calling them an “invasion,” “rapists,” and “criminals.” Sen. Elizabeth Warren, a candidate for President, went so far as to tell The NY Timesthat she believes Trump himself is a white supremacist. “He has given aid and comfort to white supremacists,” she said. 

  Candidate Joe Biden said, “This president has fanned the flames of white supremacy in this nation. His low-energy, vacant-eyed mouthing of the words written for him condemning white supremacists this week, I don’t believe fooled anyone” 

  CNN reports that the Trump-led White House “rebuffed” the Department of Homeland Security’s efforts to highlight domestic terrorism in the government’s National Counterterrorism Strategy.

  But Carlson said, “It’s actually not a real problem in America. The combined membership of every white supremacist organization in this country would be able to fit inside a college football stadium.”

  Now imagine what he would say if there were enough radical violent Muslims living in the US to fill a college football stadium. But he said,”This is a country where the average person is getting poorer, where the suicide rate is spiking—’white supremacy, that’s the problem’—this is a hoax.”

Manhunt Ends:Canadian authorities say that after a manhunt lasting two weeks, they have found the bodies of two teenagers believed responsible for the murders of three people, including a young American woman.

  Although not officially identified, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police say they are confident the bodies they found in dense brush near the Nelson River in Manitoba are those of Bryer Schmegelsky, 18, and Kam McLeod, 19.

  No cause of death was immediately given.

Succession:The Supreme Court in Puerto Rico ejected the island’s new governor, ruling that Pedro Pierluisi was installed in violation of the territory’s constitution. He was replaced by Wanda Vázquez, the secretary of justice who had previously said she didn’t want the job.

  On taking the oath, Vázquez became Puerto Rico’s third governor in five days and only the second woman to hold the job. The elected governor, Ricardo Rosselló, resigned in scandal.  

Immigrant Roundup:Federal immigration agents raided several Mississippi companies yesterday, taking into custody hundreds of immigrant workers in what federal officials said might be the largest worksite enforcement action ever in a single state.

  More than 600 agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement were involved. They rounded up at least 680 immigrants who were suspected of working without legal documentation.

The News Roundup: While President Trump’s job approval rating is still below 50 percent, recent polling suggests that millions of Americans who did not like the president in 2016 now say they do. — Climate change is threatening the world’s food supply a UN report says. A half billion people already live in areas turning into desert, the report says. — A 33-year-old man went on a stabbing spree in Santa Ana, Calif., killing four people and injuring two others in what appearedto be random attacks over three hours. He was arrested.

The Obit Page:Rosie Ruiz, the runner who infamously took the subway on her way to winning the 1980 Boston Marathon, has died at age 66.

  Her name is a punchline for fakery.Ruiz arrived at the finish line barely out of breath, but was crowned the winner of the women’s race. Examination of videotape and checkpoint records proved that she had barely run at all. She joined the race about a mile from the finish line.

  Ruiz claimed that she was not a fraud and that she was a crusader for women runners. She said,  “I had one minute to feel that I had won the race, and every moment after that has been a nightmare.”

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