A.G. Gancarski
President Donald Trump has taken to Twitter on multiple occasions since Nicolas Cruz murdered 17 people at the Parkland school from which he was expelled.
“So many signs that the Florida shooter was mentally disturbed, even expelled from school for bad and erratic behavior,” Trump tweeted Thursday. “Neighbors and classmates knew he was a big problem. Must always report such instances to authorities, again and again!”
While all available evidence suggests that Cruz indeed had been reported to authorities repeatedly, and the fact of his expulsion suggests a critical eye also, this is the most detailed tweet Trump has made since the shooting Wednesday afternoon.
Trump offered “prayers and condolences” in a tweet Wednesday afternoon, followed up by a tweet that said he and Gov. Rick Scott were “working closely with law enforcement in the wake of this terrible shooting.”
President Trump has taken to Twitter on multiple occasions to extend prayers, condolences, and thoughts in the wake of mass murders, though those tweets have not been without incident.
Time reports that in late 2017, Trump tweeted condolences regarding a shooting in Texas two weeks before that took 58 lives at a church, in the wake of a similar incident in California (a multi-locational massacre which included an elementary school).
