President Trump Visits Pittsburgh Synagogue to Pay Respects to Victims of Massacre

President Trump Visits Pittsburgh Synagogue to Pay Respects to Victims of Massacre

Yesterday, President Donald J. Trump and First Lady Melania Trump visited the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where a gunman killed 11 Jewish Americans in the worst anti-Semitic attack in American history.

“Accompanied by Rabbi Jeffrey Myers, the president and first lady laid white roses and stones from the White House - a Jewish tradition - at the makeshift memorial outside the synagogue,” Andrew O’Reilly reports for Fox News. “Following his time at the synagogue, Trump traveled to the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center to visit the injured victims, including four police officers wounded by gunfire.”

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“A measure of U.S. consumer confidence rose in October to an almost two-decade high, as Americans expected economic and jobs growth to power ahead,” Sharon Nunn reports for The Wall Street Journal. “U.S. consumer confidence rose to 137.9 in October, the highest level since September 2000.”

 

“There is only one solution to this – we must call out and root out anti-Semitism wherever it exists,” Special Representative for International Negotiations Jason Greenblatt writes in Fox News about Saturday’s horrific shooting. “We must call out and root out all forms of hatred, wherever they exist. We must teach our children to love and respect one another, to fight all hatred, and to stand proud and tall.”

 

“There’s a rule of thumb for journalists reporting on the Palestinians: If it can’t be blamed on Israel, it isn’t news. But some rules demand to be broken,” Elliot Kaufman writes inThe Wall Street Journal. Following a two-year investigation, a new report from Human Rights Watch implicates both Hamas and the Palestinian Authority in “horrific violence and repression” against their own people.

 

“The Department of Commerce and our National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration stand ready before, during and after any storm to help the city stay on its feet and open for business,” Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross writes in The Post and Courier. “Behind every update, there were dedicated NOAA team members, from the pilots flying the hurricane hunters through raging storms, to forecasters in the National Hurricane Center and in local National Weather Service offices.”