Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee for president of the United States, is in hot water again after he tweeted about the Orlando shooting on Sunday morning.
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Trump immediately released a statement after the horrific attack at Pulse Nightclub that left more than 50 dead and more than 100 wounded.
Clinton warned earlier Monday against demonizing an entire religion, saying doing so would play into the hands of the Islamic State group.
“We can call it radical jihadism, we can call it radical Islamism”, Clinton said on CNN’s “New Day”.
“We are importing Radical Islamic Terrorism into the West through a failed immigration system”, he said.
Trump’s speech in New Hampshire included a moment of silence for the Orlando victims, a pledge of solidarity with the city’s LGBT community and a condemnation of the attack as “a strike at the heart and soul of who we are as a nation”.
In a sober national security address in Cleveland, the presumptive Democratic nominee also called for ramping up the US air campaign targeting the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria. Mateen died during a confrontation with police.
“Look, I think Trump, as usual is obsessed with name calling and from my perspective, it matters what we do, not what we say”.
Clinton said she’d make “identifying and stopping “lone wolves” and stopping them a top priority”.
In the wake of the Orlando shooting, Trump is testing that same theory with the general electorate.
In each instance, Trump sought to project both strength and a lack of concern for the reaction to his provocative rhetoric, calculating that both would help him rise in the polls during the Republican primary.
Trump blamed the fact that the family of shooter Omar Mateen immigrated to the USA from Afghanistan for the tragedy.
Obama’s Republican critics have often belittled his parsing of the language in describing terrorist attacks, saying it represents weakness in combating a mortal threat to Americans, even as he has ordered a steady round of armed drone attacks against suspected terrorists in the Mideast.
“[Mateen appeared to be] inspired by various extremist information that was disseminated over the Internet”, he said.
Trump said there were thousands of people living in the United States “sick with hate” and capable of carrying out the same sort of massacre.
“We can’t let people in”. It will be lifted, this ban, when as a nation we’re in a position to properly and perfectly screen these people coming into our country.
Carl Bernstein told CNN’s Brooke Baldwin that “despite his nearly neo-fascist rhetoric”, Trump’s speech was “effective” in pointing out that liberals have not forcefully enough called out Muslim-Americans for failing to condemn terror attacks in the name of their religion. “You have people that were born in this country” who are susceptible to becoming “radicalized”, the billionaire real estate mogul said on Fox. “If Hillary Clinton, after this attack, still can not say the two words “radical Islam” she should get out of this race for the presidency”.
‘And believe me, the community knows the people that have the potential to blow up’.
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Omar Mateen, the suspect in the Orlando shooting, was a US citizen born in New York City who reportedly declared his allegiance to the Islamic State militant group before carrying out the massacre – not a refugee or foreigner who would be affected by Trump’s proposed immigration restrictions. “I refuse to be politically correct”.
