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Trump lit the fires of racist and right-wing terror
The president uses the words ‘nationalist’ and ‘globalist’ in exactly the same way as the far-right terrorists carrying out the wave of recent attacks, writes JOHN WOJCIK
A person stands in front of Stars of David that are displayed in front of the Tree of Life Synagogue with the names of those killed in Saturday's deadly shooting in Pittsburgh

ON Wednesday of last week, Gregory Bush, having failed in his effort to get into an African-American church, instead went into a Kroger supermarket in Louisville, Kentucky, and shot two black customers to death.

That story was pushed aside quickly by reports that pipe bombs made by Cesar Sayoc were showing up at the homes of Democrats and others, including former president Barack Obama, who have been regular targets of President Trump’s vitriol. It was the largest assassination plot in US history.

And if all that was not enough, millions of US citizens awoke Saturday morning to the news of the worst anti-semitic attack in US history — the murder by Robert Bowers of 11 worshippers at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh.

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