The two Democrats were outraged that Trump’s solution to the Orlando massacre – carried out by a US citizen – is to “suspend immigration from areas of the world where there is a proven history of terrorism”.
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Authorities identified the killer in Orlando as Omar Mateen, a 29-year-old American-born Muslim.
Graham and other Republicans have also decried Trump’s implications that Obama is somehow linked to terrorists and that he “continues to prioritize our enemy over our allies and, for that matter, the American people”. “Someone seriously thinks that we don’t know who we are fighting?” “The current politically correct response cripples our ability to talk and to think and act clearly”, he said Monday. “It is not a strategy”. His rhetoric ignores America’s “shameful” Obama is arguing that treating Muslim-Americans differently won’t make the US safer.
As previously reported, the ex-Celebrity Apprentice host has proposed a ban on Muslims entering the United States, which Obama, 54, addressed on Tuesday during a speech at the Treasury Department.
While Obama did not refer to Trump by name, he did call out “proposals from the presumptive Republican nominee for president of the United States to bar all Muslims from immigrating into America”-ones that would suggest “entire religious communities are complacent in violence”.
Clinton called on “responsible Republicans” to denounce Trump’s accusations about President Barack Obama’s loyalties, noting that “history will remember what we do in this moment”. “Where does this stop?”
The Washington Post has since tweaked its headline – now it reads “Donald Trump seems to connect President Obama to Orlando shooting“.
Additionally, Trump’s rallies have continued to grow more and more terrifying.
Well look, I mean, I think the reality is that most gay people are going to support the candidate who wants to bring us together and not rip us apart.
Her almost point-by-point rebuttal to Trump’s speech a day earlier underscores the balancing act Clinton faces, as she tries to both take on Trump’s bombastic attacks and while maintaining focus on the high-minded policy prescriptions that have been the backbone of her campaign.
He also said Clinton is following President Obama’s lead in responding to the attacks in Orlando over the weekend to avoid facing charges.
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House Oversight Committee Chair Jason Chaffetz defended Donald Trump from criticism over his tough rhetoric on President Obama’s terrorism record this morning. Mr Obama said, before going on: “Do Republican officials actually agree with this?”. That’s the key they tell us. The congressman, who has not endorsed Trump, said that while it’s fair to criticize aspects of Obama’s approach to combatting terrorism, “I part company with those then who want to get into these conspiracy theories”. “I refuse to be politically correct”, he said.
