Trump Faces Pressure on Gun Control in Secretive Dayton Visit
- Journalists weren’t allowed to accompany president at hospital
- Democratic senator confronted Trump on background checks
Demonstrators protest during Trump’s visit to the site of the mass shooting in Dayton, Ohio, on Aug. 7, 2019.
Photographer: Megan Jelinger/AFP via Getty Images
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Donald Trump sought to console the grief-stricken residents of El Paso and Dayton on Wednesday, a trip that has so far been conducted largely out of public view following Democratic criticism of the president’s rhetoric on race and immigration and his positions on gun safety.
Journalists were not allowed to accompany Trump as he met with shooting victims, local officials, and police and other emergency workers at a Dayton hospital, and he made no public remarks while on the ground in Ohio.