Obama’s rebuke Tuesday was his most searing yet of the man seeking to take his seat in the Oval Office. They are united in their view that Trump would be unsafe for the country. Enslave! Want to enslave women!’ he said during a campaign rally in Atlanta. “It doesn’t reflect our democratic ideals”.
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Obama walked listeners through a familiar litany of battlefield successes, but then came another message. Abandoning American values mean betraying the very things the country is trying to protect.
But U.S. presidents have wide latitude on immigration matters, and some conservative scholars said that the fate of any proposed ban would hinge on how narrowly Trump framed it.
The president named four terror leaders who have been killed in Iraq in recent months – and warned terror leaders everywhere, “If you target America and our allies, you will not be safe”.
Three days after Donald Trump appeared in Pittsburgh with a typically brash performance, his Democratic rival blasted him as “temperamentally unfit and totally unqualified” to be president.
Later, Trump said, “The level of anger, that’s the kind of anger he should have for the shooter and these killers that shouldn’t be here”.
The current headline now reads, “Donald Trump seems to connect President Obama to Orlando shooting”. Whether the US cooperated with figures from that group is not addressed in the document.
In a speech a few hours later, he reiterated his call for a temporary ban on Muslims coming to the US and said that as president he would “suspend immigration from areas of the world where there’s a proven history of terrorism against the United States, Europe and our allies”.
Trump had a slight edge in some polls that asked voters whom they trust to handle terrorism at home or overseas, and a Bloomberg Poll released Tuesday night showed Trump with a narrow edge over Clinton on the issue, 50 percent to 45 percent.
Bloomberg’s Tuesday poll, conducted by well-regarded pollster Ann Selzer, also found that 55% of respondents said that they’d never vote for Trump, while 43% said they’d never vote for Clinton. “We need leadership and concrete plans because we are facing a brutal enemy”.
In her hard hitting speech, Clinton urged the Republican leadership to rebuke this “dangerous rhetoric”.
“Where does this stop?”
“Are we going to start treating all Muslim Americans differently?”
When Trump scapegoats Muslims, that also damages our own security by bolstering the us-versus-them narrative of the Islamic State.
Well, 49 Americans in Orlando were busy going about their lives when an Islamic State terrorist murdered them in cold blood.
For Republican officials already struggling with whether to fully embrace him, Trump’s willingness to engage in stories usually limited to supermarket tabloids is only making their options more complicated.
“What concerned me about his comments as they related to the judge was the fact that I think he has shown tendencies of being a quintessential strongman – like Obama has wanton disregard for the Constitution – and that concerns me”.
Republicans have instead hoped to focus on a broader criticism of the president’s counter-terrorism strategy as unfocused, ineffective and too soft of Islamic institutions and governments that support terrorism.
The president who opened his remarks by providing an update on the investigation into the Orlando terrorist attack over the weekend, said the United States now does not have “any information to indicate that a foreign terrorist group directed the attack in Orlando”. Republicans have said the careful parsing is a sign of over-caution and political correctness that demonstrates denial about the groups responsible for the extremist view.
“What exactly would using this language accomplish?” It is a political talking point.
“There is no magic to the phrase ‘radical Islam, ‘” he said.
“Someone seriously thinks we don’t know who we’re fighting?” Credentials are needed for reporters, photographers and other staff to gain access to press seating, travel with the campaign and attend media-only events, like press conferences.
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Obama struck a more bipartisan tone in speaking to members of Congress and their families during a picnic Tuesday evening on the South Lawn.
