The presumptive Republican presidential nominee also blamed President Obama and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for what he called a failed foreign policy and intelligence gathering system, saying the shooter’s parents should not have been allowed to enter the country from Afghanistan.
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It may be remembered it was his first speech after Orlando massacre where one Muslim Omar Mateen allegedly 49 people and 53 were wounded at the gay nightclub early on Sunday.
Clinton said her anti-terror efforts would center on identifying “lone wolf” attackers those who may be radicalized but not connected to a broader network or carrying out plans on behalf of any group.
While Clinton zeroed in on fighting Islamic State extremism and the need to rein in American gun violence, Trump seized on how Muslims may be protecting their own, including the Orlando shooter, at the expense of national security.
“We have many people coming in whose hate is equal to his and just as bad and even worse, frankly, and we have to stop people from coming in”, Trump said, adding that gun control measures also could not stop a terrorist attack.
Clinton, who has clinched the Democratic nomination, on Monday reiterated her call for an assault weapons ban and attacked Trump’s policies without mentioning him by name.
The presumptive Republican nominee took aim at Obama and Clinton, knocking them for not using the term “radical Islamic” terrorist, and then took credit when Clinton used the term on Monday.
“Muslim communities must cooperate with law enforcement and turn in the people who they know are bad – and they do know where they are”, Trump said.
“What I want is common sense”, the GOP nominee said. Less than half a century later, nearly one in five US residents are a foreigner or children of foreigners – millions of them illegals – putting an extreme strain on infrastructure, resources, the economy, and almost every aspect of American society and culture.
In conclusion, Trump vowed to protect all Americans inside United States borders, saying “all Americans living here and following our laws will be protected”, before promising to “make America great again”. “One’s on Mars and the other is on Jupiter”, Lee said.
“This is an issue that favors the seasoned, steady, deliberate experience of Hillary Clinton and not the flippant, fly-by-night, drive-by insults of Donald Trump”, said Steve McMahon, a Virginia-based Democratic strategist. The Washington Post read between the lines, concluded Trump was making the sinister suggestion that Obama had something to do with Orlando, and Trump was so angry about it he revoked their press access. “We need to tell the truth about radical Islam and we need to do it now”. And while fully recognizing the risk of “a distorted version of Islam”, she suggested more collaboration with Muslims, not less, in order to eradicate the metastasizing threat. Trump said. However, the businessman has said he opposes gay marriage the official position of the Republican Party while Clinton and Democrats back same-sex unions.
“Well, there a lot of people who think maybe he doesn’t want to get it. A lot of people think maybe he doesn’t want to know about it. I happen to think he just doesn’t know what he’s doing, but there are many people that think maybe he doesn’t want to get it, he doesn’t want to see what’s really happening”, Trump told NBC.
Trump has also said that he wants to challenge the 14th Amendment to the Constitution, on the grounds that the amendment is “unconstitutional”.
Trump proclaimed himself more of a friend of the LGBT community than Clinton is, declaring that she and Obama are allowing a terrorist element into the United States while at the same time trying to take Americans’ guns away from them.
Clinton and Trump planned to address the shooting further in back-to-back speeches Monday.
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“We did not attack each other; we worked together”, she said. Big news: The vast majority of murderers in American history have descended from an immigrant.
