"HIDE ME FROM THE PUBLIC":

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... [...]

[T]rump was greeted by protests in the city, and Ohio Senator Sherrod Brown and Dayton Mayor Nan Whaley confronted the president as soon as he arrived to demand he press Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to hold a vote on House legislation that would expand background checks for gun buyers.

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