{"id":328668,"date":"2017-10-02T17:04:44","date_gmt":"2017-10-02T16:04:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/trump-slams-las-vegas-shooting-as-act-of-pure-evil\/"},"modified":"2017-10-02T17:04:44","modified_gmt":"2017-10-02T16:04:44","slug":"trump-slams-las-vegas-shooting-as-act-of-pure-evil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/trump-slams-las-vegas-shooting-as-act-of-pure-evil\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump slams Las Vegas shooting as &#039;act of pure evil&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>US President Donald Trump has denounced the mass shooting at a Las Vegas music festival as &#8220;an act of pure evil,&#8221; saying Americans are &#8220;joining together in sadness, shock and grief.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In brief remarks from the White House on Monday, Trump praised first responders, including the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, &#8220;for their courageous efforts.&#8221; The president also said he would visit Las Vegas on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The gun attack on the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino killed at least 58\u00a0people and injured more than 500 others. Police said the suspect, identified as 64-year-old Stephen Paddock from Mesquite, shot himself to death.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Last night a gunman opened fire on a large crowd at a country music concert in Las Vegas, Nevada. He brutally murdered more than 50 people and was an act of pure evil,&#8221; Trump said in his televised address.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We cannot fathom their pain, we cannot imagine their loss,&#8221; he said of those who lost loved ones in the&#8230;<\/p><\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2017\/10\/02\/537237\/Trump-calls-Las-Vegas-shooting-act-of-pure-evil\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US President Donald Trump has denounced the mass shooting at a Las Vegas music festival as &#8220;an act of pure evil,&#8221; saying Americans are &#8220;joining together in sadness, shock and grief.&#8221; In brief remarks from the White House on Monday, Trump praised first responders, including the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, &#8220;for their courageous efforts.&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-328668","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=328668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328668\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}