Trump publicly blames mental illness for mass shootings. His record tells a different story.

“This is a mental health problem at the highest level,” said President Donald Trump while in Japan on Monday, the day after a gunman killed at least 26 people in a rural Texas church.

Mentally ill individuals are often villainized and become the political scapegoat following mass shootings, even though people with severe mental illness are 10 times more likely to be victims rather than perpetrators of violence.