Dayton shooter was 'exploring violent ideologies,' investigators say

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Trump to call for national unity and healing in trips to shooting sites at El Paso and Dayton before skeptical critics
President Trump on will attempt to unite the nation and console mourners in trips to shooting sites at El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio on Wednesday. The big question is whether Democrats who blame Trump, in part, for the back-to-back mass shootings last weekend that left 31 people dead will let him. The president’s biggest skeptics argue that he has helped create the environment for recent mass shootings with inflammatory divisive, anti-immigration rhetoric that emboldened hate groups. Investigators are looking closely at the potential motives of the accused shooters in Dayton and El Paso. Trump on Wednesday faces a dilemma similar to the one he faced in October 2018, when Jewish leaders urged him to stay away from the community following the shooting at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh.

Still, White House officials said Trump's visits to Texas and Ohio Wednesday will be similar to those he's paid to grieving communities in Parkland, Fla., and Las Vegas, with the president and first lady thanking first responders and spending time with mourning families and survivors. White House spokesman Hogan Gidley said Trump also wants "to have a conversation" about ways to prevent future tragedies.