The New Zealand shooter declared that he supported President Trump 'as a symbol of renewed white identity and common purpose.'
House Judiciary Committee Chair Jerry Nadler began a hearing on hate crimes and white nationalism on Tuesday by mentioning"hateful ideological rhetoric" coming from the U.S. in relation to last month's New Zealand mosque shooting before quickly pivoting to President Donald Trump.
"We only need to look at the perpetrators of violence and hate to see the impact this rhetoric has had. For example, the New Zealand shooter declared that he supports President Trump 'as a symbol of renewed white identity and common purpose,'" Nadler said, citing a manifesto from the alleged shooter who killed 50 people in attacks on mosques in Christchurch. The White House has dismissed the reference to Trump in the manifesto.
During Nadler's opening address he also talked about the Great Replacement theory, a racist conspiracy theory in white nationalist circles that white women are not having enough white children. Figures like Anders Breivik, who killed 77 people in a 2011 attack in Norway, have similarly expressed fixation with the birthrates of white children.
The ranking Republican representative on the committee, Doug Collins, also disavowed white nationalism in his opening remarks.
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