The shooter had reportedly claimed allegiance to ISIS, al-Qaeda, Hezbollah – groups that have conflicting ideologies – during one of the 911 calls he made during the three-hour standoff inside of Pulse, the LGBTQ nightclub where he killed 49 people.
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I find that rather shocking, given that Trump was right when he said Obama was more angry at Trump than he was at the terrorist.
In similar speeches delivered at nearly the same time, Obama and Clinton also stepped up pressure on Republicans to distance themselves from Trump – a tactic you will be seeing increasingly used to make the GOP even more nervous about down-ballot defeats in November.
Trump has fired back, saying at a campaign event in Greensboro, North Carolina, on Tuesday: “If Hillary Clinton becomes president I don’t know that our country will ever, ever come back”.
When he hosted a White House summit on combating violent extremism previous year, President Obama explained why he wouldn’t use the term “radical Islamic terrorism” to describe groups like the self-proclaimed Islamic State or al-Qaida. “The leader of the Paris attack they couldn’t find, and around a year later they find him close to home”, Trump said, then mentioned several instances in which people are believed to have known of plans for terror attacks within the USA or suspicious activity and didn’t report it. So not one of Donald Trump’s reckless ideas would have saved a single life in Orlando. She went after Trump for criticizing Democrats refusal to call the attacks “radical Islamic extremism”. Obama said. “Are we going to start subjecting them to special surveillance”.
Trump had also sent out tweets hinting that Obama secretly sides with terrorists and can’t be trusted.
The presumptive Republican Presidential nominee has recently opposed transgender rights, pledged to appoint justices to repeal equal marriage, and come out against federal anti-discrimination protections. “It won’t make us more safe, it will make us less safe”.
House of Representatives Speaker Paul Ryan said on Tuesday he did not think a ban on the entry of Muslims was in US interests. I say, ‘What are you people doing?
After the presumptive Republican presidential nominee’s comments, during a campaign stop Monday in Manchester, New Hampshire, President Barack Obama called the remarks “highly offensive” and “dangerous”.
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Clinton tore into Trump’s history as a leader of the birther movement, which alleged Obama was not born in America – which he was. “And it is yet more evidence that he is temperamentally unfit and totally unqualified to be Commander- in-Chief”, Clinton told her supporters in Pittsburgh.
