{"id":120987,"date":"2017-10-03T04:17:08","date_gmt":"2017-10-03T08:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=120987"},"modified":"2017-10-03T04:17:08","modified_gmt":"2017-10-03T08:17:08","slug":"trump-calls-vegas-shooting-an-act-of-pure-evil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/10\/03\/trump-calls-vegas-shooting-an-act-of-pure-evil\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump calls Vegas shooting an &#8216;act of pure evil&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_115133\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-115133\" style=\"width: 2048px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/8566718339_21116f4b9f_k.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-115133\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/8566718339_21116f4b9f_k.jpg\" alt=\"FILE: President Donald Trump (Photo by Gage Skidmore\/Flickr,CC BY-SA 2.0)\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1365\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/8566718339_21116f4b9f_k.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/8566718339_21116f4b9f_k-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/8566718339_21116f4b9f_k-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/8566718339_21116f4b9f_k-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-115133\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE: President Donald Trump (Photo by Gage Skidmore\/Flickr,CC BY-SA 2.0)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 President Donald Trump has condemned the mass shooting in Las Vegas \u2014 in which at least 59 people were shot dead \u2014 as an \u201cact of pure evil\u201d and declared the nation would unite behind the survivors, but he refused to get into a new debate over gun control.<\/p>\n<p>Trump spoke slowly and carefully Monday morning from the White House Diplomatic Room, focusing not on the identity or possible motive of the gunman but on the nation&#8217;s efforts to heal.<\/p>\n<p>The remarks were the prelude to a two-part test of whether Trump, a leader who excels at political provocation, can also deliver solace. Trump is slated to visit Puerto Rico Tuesday to survey devastation from Hurricane Maria, before going to Las Vegas Wednesday to meet with families of the dead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 President Donald Trump has condemned the mass shooting in Las Vegas \u2014 in which at least 59 people &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":115133,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24157,16],"tags":[1930,14087],"class_list":["post-120987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-american-news","category-news","tag-las-vegas","tag-president-donald-trump","mauthors-jonathan-lemire-and-catherine-lucey","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120987\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}