Tuesday, February 20, 2018

Mexico took down another high-profile cartel leader, and the backlash may already have started

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  • A top Gulf cartel leader was captured at a home near the US-Mexico border early on Monday morning.
  • Less than a day later, residents in the area reported gunfire and other violent scenes.
  • The complex criminal environment in Mexico makes it hard to tell where things are going, but such disruptions in leadership have sparked violence in the past.


Mexican marines captured a top leader in the Gulf cartel in northeast Mexico on Monday, just a few weeks after a high-level member of the rival Zetas cartel was captured in Mexico City.

Jose Alfredo Cardenas, nicknamed "the Nephew" and "the Accountant," was arrested in Matamoros early on Monday. Officials said no shots were fired in the raid that also seized two military-grade weapons, ammunition, and some cocaine and marijuana. A group of armed men reportedly fled the scene.

Mexican authorities tracked down Cardenas using wire intercepts, Mike Vigil, former chief of international operations for the US Drug Enforcement Administration, told Business Insider. Cardenas was captured along with two other men while entering a house, added Vigil, who said additional weapons and documents were also seized.

37-year-old Cardenas is the nephew of Osiel Cardenas Guillen, the Gulf cartel boss who was arrested in 2003, extradited to the US in 2007, and sentenced to 25 years in prison in 2010. The younger Cardenas became a cartel leader after Guillen's capture, and, according to the DEA's 2017 National Drug Threat Assessment, he is one of two main leaders in a cartel that has seen "rapid turnover in leadership."

Mexican federal officials said that Cardenas — one of the country's most wanted criminals — moved between Matamoros, the nearby city of Brownsville in Texas, and Mexico state in central Mexico.

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The Gulf cartel has fragmented, with several factions now vying for influence in Tamaulipas, the cartel's traditional stronghold. The state is an important smuggling route for narcotics, migrants, and other illicit goods, and criminal groups there have expanded into kidnapping, extortion, resource theft, and other activities. Homicides in the state have risen each of the past three years, hitting 1,053 in 2017.

"What has happened in Tamaulipas is we have had two big groups of organized crime that have fragmented, and now we have more than 20," Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera, a professor at George Mason University, told Business Insider at the end of January.

"It's difficult to identify the number of cells that survive right now in the state and are still occupying or controlling different criminal activities," Correa-Cabrera, author of "Los Zetas Inc," said at the time. There are "different factions of the Gulf cartel and some factions of the Zetas" in other cities around the state.

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Cardenas reportedly took control of a Gulf cartel faction in the area after the April 2017 killing of  Juan Manuel Loisa Salinas, known as "Comandante Toro," in Reynosa, a border city west of Matamoros. Mexican government sources also identified him as the Gulf cartel boss in Matamoros.

A statement issued by the Mexican navy after Cardenas' arrested said, "presumably he was the leader of a criminal organization in the region."

He was reportedly competing for control of the cartel with a rival group in the nearby Mexican city of Rio Bravo.

By early Tuesday morning — less than 24 hours after Cardenas' capture — Matamoros residents were using social media to report gun battles in several areas of the city. "Matamoros under shootouts" and "precaution" were messages circulating with video recordings of the gunfire that appeared on social media.

Some cars were reportedly left stranded after their tires punctured by spikes left on roads.

Correa-Cabrera said that while it was too early to say definitively what provoked the clashes, they did appear related to Cardenas' arrest.

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After the mayorship was transferred from the conservative National Action Party and the center-right Institutional Revolutionary Party in late 2016, the situation in Matamoros appeared more coherent, and the Gulf cartel leader's capture may have disrupted some kind of pact that had been agreed upon, Correa-Cabrera told Business Insider on Tuesday.

"I am not sure why they arrested Cardenas," she added. "It is interesting. We need to wait and see."

Violence also broke out in Reynosa in the hours after the killing of Comandante Toro in April last year. Armed gunmen shut down parts of the city with road blockades, and the federal attorney general's office there came under fire several times. The months afterward also saw sustained, elevated violence.

However, Correa-Cabrera stressed that the criminal dynamics in Reynosa and Tamaulipas are distinct, making it hard to predict what the fallout will be.

"We are not dealing here with a pure 'kingpin strategy effect,' understood in the most traditional sense" as a fight between malefactors for control of the territory, Correa-Cabrera told Business Insider.

Rather, a variety of actors with overlapping and sometimes shared interests are in Reynosa, she said, including federal forces, state authorities, and factions of different criminal groups. Paramilitary groups, made up of criminal and government forces acting in concert, may also be present. (There are at least 18 regional cartel leaders operating in northeast Mexico, according to El Universal.)

Criminal elements and members of the local, municipal, and state governments in Tamaulipas have often developed symbiotic relationships. Changes in political power and shifts in cartel leadership have in some instances disrupted those ties, leading to more violence.

"The situation in Reynosa is much more complex," Correa-Cabrera said. "The whole state is very complex."

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A 15-year-old JROTC cadet sacrificed himself to save 'dozens' during the Florida shooting — and thousands of people want him buried with full military honors

Peter Wang

  • A 15-year-old JROTC cadet died helping his classmates escape the gunman that stormed his Florida school last week.
  • Peter Wang was shot multiple times and killed while holding the door to his study hall open, allowing dozens of his classmates to escape.
  • People are now petitioning the White House to have Wang buried with full military honors.


A freshman JROTC cadet died helping his classmates escape the gunman that stormed his Parkland, Florida school last week with an AR-15.

Peter Wang was wearing his grey JROTC uniform with black stripes as he held the door to his study hall open, helping "dozens" of his fellow classmates escape, before he was shot multiple times and killed, according to multiple reports.  

Now people are petitioning the White House to bury Wang with full military honors. More than 60,000 people have signed the petition as of midday on Tuesday. 

Wang's "selfless and heroic actions have led to the survival of dozens in the area. Wang died a hero, and deserves to be treated as such, and deserves a full honors military burial," the petition reads. 

"He died a gentleman holding the door for other students," Wang's friend, Kelsey, told CNN. "And knowing he's gone is going to haunt me forever."

Wang was known to have protected others in the past.

When his older cousin, Aaron Chen, who didn't speak English, moved to the US from China, he made sure no one bullied him, according to the Miami Herald.

Peter Wang Florida school shooting

Wang, who dreamed of attending West Point, joined the US Army Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps upon entering Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School as a freshman.

He was reportedly a good marksman, and was set to be promoted the following week to the "A" team of his third period Bravo unit, Angelyse Perez, Wang's 18-year-old commander, told the Herald.

"That kid was the most hilarious thing on the planet," Perez said. "He was always happy and bubbly and smiley."

"He is so brave. He is the person who is genuinely kind to everyone," Wang's 24-year-old cousin, Lin Chen, told the Orlando Sun Sentinel. "He doesn't care about popularity. He always liked to cheer people up. He is like the big brother everyone wished they had."

"I feel the family can never be the same," Chen said.

Wang, who was born in New York, was one of 17 people killed last Wednesday. He was 15 years old.

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Monday, February 19, 2018

13 American presidents who escaped attempts on their lives

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  • In American history, four out of 45 US presidents have been assassinated.
  • However, many more presidents have escaped attempts on their lives, including Andrew Jackson, Ronald Reagan, and George W. Bush.
  • Below, learn more about which presidents survived — and how.


Four out of 45 US presidents have been assassinated over the course of American history.

But many more chief executives escaped assassination attempts thanks to heroic bystanders, diligent guards, misfiring pistols, and crazy luck.

Even two presidents who were eventually assassinated escaped previous attempts on their lives.

On a hot August night in 1864, a sniper shot Lincoln's hat off his head — missing his skull by inches — as he took a solo ride on his favorite horse "Old Abe," according to "1864: Lincoln at the Gates of History." Lincoln was later shot and killed by Confederate sympathizer John Wilkes Booth, just five days after the surrender of Robert E. Lee.

Almost a century later, in 1960, retired postal worker Richard Paul Pavlick crammed his car with dynamite and plotted to ram the vehicle into Kennedy's limo in Palm Beach, Florida, according to Smithsonian magazine. He was motivated by his intense hatred of Catholics and the Kennedy family, but backed off when he saw that the president was with his wife and young children. Pavlick was later arrested and institutionalized until 1966, three years after Kennedy was assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald while visiting Dallas, Texas.

But these 13 other presidents all experienced serious assassination threats and ultimately survived — and these are only the most dramatic, most-publicized instances. Undoubtedly, the Secret Service has thwarted many more over the years.

Here are 13 presidents who escaped attempts on their lives:

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Andrew Jackson

On a misty January day in 1835, Richard Lawrence, an out-of-work house painter who believed he was the 15th-century English king Richard III, walked into the US Capitol Building.

President Andrew Jackson was leaving the funeral of a House representative when the English national confronted him in the East Portico, brandishing a pistol.

He raised the gun at Andrew Jackson and pulled the trigger. Nothing happened.

"Let me alone! Let me alone!" Jackson yelled at Lawrence, according to Smithsonian magazine. "I know where this came from."

Lawrence discarded the weapon, produced a second pistol, and aimed the new gun at Jackson. It also misfired.

According to legend, Jackson subsequently flew at the man and thrashed him with his cane. Whether or not that's true, Lawrence's assassination attempt was unsuccessful. Smithsonian magazine reported that national anthem lyricist Francis Scott Key prosecuted his trial, where he was found not guilty by reason of insanity. Lawrence spent the rest of his life institutionalized.

As Time reported, the chance that both perfectly functional pistols would misfire was about one in 125,000. Jackson's survival may have depended on the dampness in the air that day.



Theodore Roosevelt

President Theodore Roosevelt was saved by the length of his speech after an assassin shot him in the chest with a .38-caliber revolver in 1912.

At the time, Roosevelt was running for the presidency on the Bull and Moose ticket. Saloon-owner John Schrank had begun stalking the former president after having an unusual dream.

According to "Killing the President: Assassinations, Attempts, and Rumored Attempts on U.S. Commanders-in-Chief," Schrank wrote: "In a dream I saw President McKinley sit up in his coffin pointing at a man in a monk’s attire in whom I recognized Theodore Roosevelt. The dead President said, 'This is my murderer — avenge my death.'"

Fortunately, Roosevelt had his notes with him when he was shot on October 14 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin — 50 pages of them, folded in his breast pocket next to his metal glasses case. These objects slowed the bullet and saved Roosevelt's life.

The ex-president continued to speak after letting his audience know he'd been shot, according to the Theodore Roosevelt Association:

"Friends, I shall ask you to be as quiet as possible. I don't know whether you fully understand that I have just been shot; but it takes more than that to kill a Bull Moose. But fortunately I had my manuscript, so you see I was going to make a long speech, and there is a bullet — there is where the bullet went through — and it probably saved me from it going into my heart. The bullet is in me now, so that I cannot make a very long speech, but I will try my best."

He finished the rest of his speech with a bullet in his ribs, where it remained until his death in 1919.



Herbert Hoover

In 1928, President Herbert Hoover was nearly killed while visiting the Andes.

Argentine anarchists attempted to blow up his train, but the would-be assassin was seized before he could plant the bombs on the tracks.

After learning of the thwarted plot, Hoover tore the front page story from the newspaper so his wife Lou Henry Hoover wouldn't worry, according to the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and Museum. The 31st president is said to have quipped that while he was unconcerned, "It's just as well that Lou shouldn't see it."



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Sunday, February 18, 2018

Brazil is taking an 'extreme measure' to confront crime in Rio — the first time it's done so since the country's dictatorship fell

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  • Days after the end of Rio's Carnival, Brazil's government has sent in the military to take command of public security in the state.
  • It's the first such intervention since the country's dictatorship fell in the mid-1980s.
  • Military interventions in Rio are not new and have frequently been criticized for failing to reduce crime and for leading to abuses.


Brazilian President Michel Temer signed a decree on Friday giving the military control of public-security duties in Rio de Janeiro state until the end of the year, amid spiraling violence in the state and the city of the same name.

The military has been deployed to Rio several times in recent years, but the new measure will give it total control of public-security functions there. Rio's governor will continue to run the state government.

"Together, the police and the armed forces will combat and confront those who have kidnapped our cities," Temer said at a signing ceremony. Gangs have "virtually taken over" Rio's metropolitan area, home to 12 million people, he added.

"Our prisons will no longer be offices for thieves, our public squares party halls for organized crime. I know it's an extreme measure but many times Brazil requires extreme measures to put things in order," he said.

The decision came days after the end of Rio's Carnival celebration and is the first such action since Brazil's military dictatorship fell in the mid-1980s. The decree is expected to be approved by Congress next week, though opposition lawmakers have come out against it, calling it an effort to distract from Temer's inability to govern.

'We must join forces'

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Temer met with legislators about the decree on Thursday, according to AFP, but Friday's announcement reportedly came as a surprise to Brazil's military command, which was unclear on the scope of the intervention and the role federal forces would play.

On Saturday, after meeting with local authorities in Rio about implementation, Temer said he wanted to create a public ministry to coordinate public-security operations throughout Brazil.

"We must join forces to combat crime," he said without offering details.

Violence has become pervasive in Rio, intensifying after the city hosted the 2016 Summer Olympics. The 2,125 killings in 2017 were 37% more than in 2014. According to state-government statistics, 2017's homicides were 26% more than the total in 2015 and 8% more than the number in 2016.

Shootouts, robberies, and roadblocks have become frequent in Rio, which is also the state capital. Drug-trafficking groups and other criminal groups control large swaths of the city. Scores of police have been accused of aiding gangs by providing guns and information about police operations.

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Residents often find themselves caught in the crossfire during clashes between rival criminal groups as well as between police and criminals. One local newspaper has started covering violence in a section called "Rio War," which was criticized for echoing the aggressive rhetoric used by the government and others to justify militarized anti-crime strategies.

The city's Carnival celebration, which ran from February 9 to February 13, was also marred by violence. Television networks showed footage of shootouts between gangs and teenagers attacking tourists in areas usually considered safe.

The state governor admitted that his administration was not prepared to provide security during the festivities. He also said authorities confiscated an "incredible" number of firearms.

Brazil Rio de Janeiro Carnival float parade

While the state government initially said crime went down during this year's festivities, data obtained by Rio newspaper O Dia indicated that homicides declined while robberies and car thefts increased.

Many Carnival performers used the occasion to criticize insecurity and corruption and their effects on the public. (Some used the event to mount endorsements of the military dictatorship that ran the country from 1964 to 1985.)

In recent years Rio has seen numerous military deployments to quell violence. Temer signed an order last summer sending 10,000 security personnel, including 8,500 troops, to the city for the remainder of that year. Some 80,000 security personnel were also deployed to the city ahead of the 2016 Olympics.

Brazilian army Gen. Walter Braga Netto, who commands the military in the eastern part of Brazil and will oversee the Rio deployment, also took part in the Olympics security operation. Asked this weekend if the security situation in Rio was really bad, Braga shook his head and said "too much media." (Brazil's largest media company, Globo, is based in Rio.)

The state is grappling with crime as it faces a dire financial situation. Budget shortfalls have left the state police struggling to find supplies, and mass layoffs from national oil company Petrobras, the state's largest corporate employer, have exacerbated economic hardships for residents. Rio state, home to 17 million people, has lost more than a half-million jobs over the past three years.

'What will the Army will do? Shoot?'

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Despite rampant violence in Rio, the state's homicide rate remains well below peaks in the 1990s and is lower than the homicide rate in other states. Nineteen Brazilian cities were on a list of the 50 most violent cities in the world in 2016, but Rio was not among them. The disparity has led some to see Temer's actions as politically motivated.

Temer, who has approval ratings in the single digits, has been considering a reelection bid ahead of elections in October. He has also been pushing for a vote on an unpopular pension-reform measure by the end of February, when legislators start to focus on reelection.

Temer's ministers admit the measure is still short 40 votes it needs to pass in the lower house, but that vote can't go forward while the military is deployed to Rio, as changes to the constitution are prohibited during such interventions. (Though Temer has said he could lift the decree to allow a vote.)

Brazil's President Michel Temer attends a ceremony at Planalto Palace in Brasilia, Brazil, December 6, 2017. REUTERS/Adriano Machado

"He is changing tack. He will assume a leading role in this issue of public security," Ricardo Ismael, a professor of political science at Rio’s Catholic Pontifical University, told The Guardian. "He will try to gain popularity."

Militarized responses to crime have been widely criticized for being ineffective and for leading to rights abuses. And many, including the head of the country's military command, have said the military can do little to address an insecurity problem like that in Rio.

"Rio’s problem is more complex than police management. There could be a quick sensation of security, but that will not last," Paulo Storani, former commander of Rio's elite BOPE police force, told the Associated Press. He said Temer's decision "will bring a lot of challenges to the military because it will not solve a security problem of decades."

"We have seen the affect of using military to police Rio," Jurema Werneck, executive director of Amnesty International Brazil, told The Wall Street Journal. "There was a significant increase in human-rights violations, especially in the case of young, black men."

"The Army does not have the capacity and training to address a security problem that exists in Rio. Public security depends mainly on investigations, and the Army does not investigate," Ignacio Cano, a sociologist at the Violence Analysis Laboratory at Rio's state university, told O Dia. "When it arrives in the community, what will the Army will do? Shoot?"

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Saturday, February 17, 2018

Here's who has been charged so far in Mueller's Russia probe

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On Friday, special counsel Robert Mueller's office announced the indictments of 13 Russian nationals and three Russian entities involved in interference operations targeting the US political system and the 2016 presidential election.

The indictments are the latest charges in Mueller's ongoing investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election, and whether the Trump campaign coordinated with the Russian in their interference efforts. Mueller is also investigating whether Trump has obstructed justice during the course of the probe. 

The Justice Department appointed Mueller as special counsel in May after Trump abruptly fired then-FBI Director James Comey, who had been looking into the president and his potential connections with Russians.

Since taking over the investigation, Mueller's team has charged four Americans once affiliated with the Trump campaign or administration, and 13 Russians and three Russian companies involved in US election interference.  

Here's everyone charged so far in the Mueller probe:

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DON'T MISS: Paul Manafort and Rick Gates, indicted in Mueller probe, plead not guilty

Paul Manafort, former Trump campaign chairman

Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort surrendered to federal authorities on October 30, 2017, after he was indicted, along with his business associate Rick Gates, on 12 counts, including conspiracy against the US and money laundering.  

Manafort, who pleaded not guilty, had been a key figure in Mueller's investigation. 

Manafort was forced to step down as Trump's campaign chairman in May 2016 after coming under fire for his connections to Russian oligarchs and his past lobbying efforts abroad. 

Manafort was also associated with at least 15 bank accounts and 10 companies in Cyprus, dating back to 2007, NBC News reported in March, and the FBI has issued grand-jury subpoenas to several banks for Manafort's records. 



Rick Gates, one of Manafort's business partners

In October, Gates was indicted along with Manafort on 12 counts, including conspiracy against the US, making false statements, and failing to file reports of foreign bank and financial accounts. He pleaded not guilty on all counts. 

Gates joined Trump election efforts in the spring of 2016, working as Manafort's deputy. He traveled with Trump and grew close with many top campaign officials.

After Manafort was ousted as Trump's campaign chief in August 2016, Gates continued working on behalf of the soon-to-be president, helping fundraise $25 million for the pro-Trump nonprofit America First Policies and working on Trump's inaugural committee. As Mueller's probe intensified in the early months of the Trump administration, Gates left the nonprofit altogether.

But as recently as June, The Daily Beast reported that Gates was still visiting the White House and working under Tom Barrack, who has remained one of Trump's most trusted advisers.



George Papadopoulos, a former Trump campaign adviser

On the same day Mueller's office announced the indictments of Manafort and Gates, it was revealed that George Papadopoulos, a 30-year-old former Trump adviser, had pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about his contacts with Russia.

According to documents that were unsealed by the Mueller investigation, Papadopoulos had made at least six attempts to set up a meeting between the Trump campaign and Russian representatives throughout the course of the 2016 presidential campaign, using a London-based professor named Joseph Mifsud and a female Russian national as conduits.

He was arrested October 5, 2017, and subsequently cooperated with Mueller's team.

Trump has described Papadopoulos as a low-level volunteer.

"Few people knew the young, low level volunteer named George, who has already proven to be a liar," Trump tweeted following news of the guilty plea. "Check the DEMS!"



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Friday, February 16, 2018

Twitter users are being called out for posting fake claims of racially motivated assaults at 'Black Panther' showings

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  • A number of Twitter users are being called out for posting fake claims of racially motivated assaults at showings of Marvel's "Black Panther.
  • Many of the false claims have used unrelated photos of physically abused women.

 

A handful of Twitter users have been called out for posting fake claims of racially motivated assaults at showings of Marvel's "Black Panther," Buzzfeed reported Friday.

Many of the false claims have used unrelated photos of physically abused women to suggest that assaults took place at screenings of the film on Thursday.

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Others on Twitter have called out the fake claims of assault, citing the original photos of the abused women used in the fabricated posts. 

Twitter has already taken down a number of posts previously reported by Buzzfeed.

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Jimmy Kimmel gives an emotional plea to Trump on gun control: 'Children are being murdered, do something'

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  • Jimmy Kimmel gave an emotional plea to President Trump on gun control Thursday, over the school shooting that killed 17 people in Parkland, Florida.
  • The host challenged Trump and Republican lawmakers for framing mass shootings as a "mental health" issue and taking money from the NRA.

 

Jimmy Kimmel addressed the deadly school shooting that killed 17 people in Parkland, Florida, in an emotional monologue on Thursday night's "Jimmy Kimmel Live!"

Kimmel began the monologue by playing two clips of President Trump discussing the shooting, in which Trump said, "No parent should ever have to fear for their sons and daughters when they kiss them goodbye in the morning."

"Agreed," Kimmel responded. "Here's what you do to fix that. Tell your buddies in Congress — tell Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell and Marco Rubio, all the family men who care so much about their communities — that what we need are laws. Real laws that do everything possible to keep assault rifles out of the hands of people who are going to shoot our kids."

Authorities said Nikolas Cruz, 19, killed 17 people and injured 14 more at Marjory Stoneman Douglas high school with an AR-15 semiautomatic rifle on Wednesday.

Kimmel continued to address Trump in an emotional plea.

"Tell these Congressmen and lobbyists, who infest that swamp you said you were going to drain, force these allegedly Christian men and women who stuff their pockets with money from the NRA year after year after year to do something," he said.

"Children are being murdered! Do something," Kimmel continued, his voice breaking. "We still haven't even talked about it. You still haven't done anything about this. Nothing. You've literally done nothing."

Kimmel concluded the monologue by addressing how Trump and Republican lawmakers have framed mass shootings as a "mental health" issue. The host said that one of Trump's first acts as president was to roll back a regulation designed to prevent the mentally ill from purchasing firearms.

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