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From The Reporter’s Notebook
A Tulsa man’s alleged murder of his Lebanese Christian neighbor in Tulsa has striking parallels with a disgruntled neighbor’s murder of his Muslim neighbors in Chapel Hill last winter. Mohammad Abu-Salha, who lost his two daughters and son-in-law in the fatal North Carolina shooting, told TPM’s Allegra Kirkland that he reached out to the Jabara family in Oklahoma to share condolences for 37-year-old Khalid’s killing. Neighbors often warned them to get a gun for protection, Victoria Jabara Williams told Abu-Salha, but they refused. “She always said we are not gun people and we’re never going to have one in our house,” Abu-Salha recalled. “This is a family that migrated from Lebanon in the ‘80s to escape the civil war and live in peace. Educated, business owners, successful, suburban, nice people—like my children, model citizens. You wish everyone was that way in this country.”
Agree or Disagree?
Josh Marshall: “We are less than three months before the election. And it’s not even clear what platform Trump is running on. Is he a white nationalist or a compassionate conservative? Will he keep ranting at African-Americans and Hispanics tomorrow about how stupid they are for not voting for him? Or will he lead the crowd with a chant of ‘Si Se Puede!’? Really, who knows? It depends on who the last person it was he talked to, the feel of the crowd at the given moment. The biggest liability Trump faces across the electorate is that he seems too mentally unstable to be president. He comes off as a charlatan.”
Say What?!
“He hasn’t changed his position on immigration. He’s changed the words that he is saying.”
– Trump spokeswoman Katrina Pierson said that her boss hasn’t changed his nebulous position on immigration.
BUZZING: Today in the Hive
From a TPM Prime member: “Maybe it’s just wishful thinking on my part, but ever since Trump won South Carolina in the Republican primary, I’ve thought that this election would be a wave election, and there was a real chance that Democrats would win the House. We’ll have a much better idea in a month, but I think that things are more likely to tip further towards Democrats, rather than tightening for Republicans, before all is said and done.”
Related: Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-UT), the chair of the House Oversight Committee, called on Trump to release his tax returns.
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