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Article snippet: Trump administration officials on Sunday pushed back against the suggestion that MORE’s rhetoric is partly to blame for the attack at two New Zealand mosques that left 50 people dead. The main suspect in the shooting, which happened Friday, wrote in his manifesto that he supported Trump — something acting White House chief of staff and U.S. Ambassador to New Zealand Scott Brown downplayed Sunday. Trump said Friday following the shooting that he didn’t believe white nationalism is a rising threat. “I think it’s a small group of people that have very, very serious problems. It’s certainly a terrible thing," the president said. In a manifesto that was more than 70 pages, the suspected shooter in the attack wrote that he supported Trump “as a symbol of renewed white identity and common purpose” but not as a “policy maker and leader.” Appearing on “Fox News Sunday,” Mulvaney rejected any link between Trump and the suspect despite the manifesto. Mulvaney declared that Trump is “not a white supremacist” and said attempting to blame Trump for the shooting “speaks to a politicization of everything that I think is undermining sort of the institutions that we have in the country today.” "Let’s take what happened in New Zealand yesterday for what it is — a terrible, evil, tragic act — and figure out why those things are becoming more prevalent in the world," he said. "Is it Donald Trump? Absolutely not." Brown also pushed back against the manifesto, saying during an inte... Link to the full article to read more