Patrick Crusius, the El Paso mass shooter, said he believed he was acting at the direction of Trump when he murdered 23 people and wounded 22 others at an El Paso Walmart in 2019, his defense lawyer told El Paso Matters. This wouldn’t be the first attack that Trump inspired. According to the outlet, Crusius, now 26, is expected to plead guilty on April 21 to charges of capital murder and aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.
Via El Paso Matters:
Patrick Crusius believed he was acting at the direction of President Donald Trump when he murdered 23 people and wounded 22 others at an El Paso Walmart in 2019, his defense lawyer told El Paso Matters.
“He thought he had to stop the invasion because that’s what his president was telling him, which is just not rational,” defense attorney Joe Spencer said in his first extended interview about the mass shooting that Crusius said was meant to stop “the Hispanic invasion of Texas.”
“He thought, if he doesn’t do it, then nobody’s going to do it. He’s got to start,” Spencer said.
Donald repeatedly told his base that the United States was being “invaded.”
