Updated at 10:15 p.m. ET
President Trump traveled to Pittsburgh Tuesday, to pay tribute to the victims of a weekend massacre that claimed the lives of 11 worshipers at a synagogue. It also came on the same day mourners began to bury loved ones and demonstrators took to the streets to protest Trump’s presence.
The president and first lady Melania Trump’s first stop was to the Tree of Life synagogue where they took part in lighting one Yahrzeit candle for each of the shooting victims. The stones and flowers the Trumps placed at a memorial there were from one of the White House Garden, according to Sarah Sanders, the White House press secretary.
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