For Trump, the role of consoler has sometimes come uneasily and, in his view, without tangible benefit. Still, after discussions with advisers that included daughter Ivanka Trump and son-in-law Jared Kushner, who are Jewish, Trump declared his intent to visit Pittsburgh. Trump has expressed concern his midterm messaging could be knocked off-kilter by the attack. His daughter and Kushner, will join Trump in Pittsburgh, along with first lady Melania Trump , who has sometimes worked with mixed results to soften her husband's public image. Trump chose to use his bully pulpit on Monday by attacking the media -- not by calling out the anti-Semitic views of the gunman.

Source: CNN October 30, 2018 05:03 UTC