“If ever there was a way you know President Obama is not an African president, this is it – because if you pulled this s-t in Africa, we would not know where Donald Trump is right now”.
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US President Barack Obama on Thursday met survivors of a massacre at an Orlando gay nightclub and relatives of the 49 people killed and said the United States must act to control gun violence and fight what he called homegrown terrorism.
The New York real estate developer said that while the Florida gunman was born in the United States, “his parents weren’t and his ideas weren’t born here”. This is a very dark moment in America’s history. Senator Lindsey Graham of SC, who ran against Trump for the Republican nomination and has been a fierce critic since, said that he was “unnerved” by Trump’s response.
Donald Trump announced Monday that he’s revoking the press credentials of The Washington Post to cover his campaign. Fifty per cent of likely voters also viewed Mr Trump as stronger in combating terrorist threats at home and overseas. “Clinton has a number of advantages in this poll, in addition to her lead”, said pollster J. Ann Selzer, who oversaw the survey.
“A ban on Muslims would not have stopped this attack”.
Hillary Clinton, whom Trump had also faulted for not using the term “radical Islam” had a similar reaction.
“Are we going to start treating all Muslim Americans differently” than other citizens?.Are we going to start discriminating against them due to their faith?”, he asked.
Republican Donald Trump is slamming AFL-CIO leadership for its decision to endorse his likely rival, Democrat Hillary Clinton.
“They come into our country, they want to take it over”, Trump said without naming “them”, before lamenting the state of affairs in Germany, which has accepted the highest number of Syrian asylum-seekers in Europe.
“I have called on our Muslim friends and allies at home and around the world to work with us to reject this twisted interpretation of one of the world’s great religions”, Obama said.
If the USA were to go down that path “we would have betrayed the very things we’re trying to protect.And then the terrorists would have won, and we can not let that happen”. But he isn’t alone in believing that it is an excessive fealty to political correctness that has left the president unwilling to utter those two magic words – “radical Islam”.
Other Jewish Republicans who have opposed Trump from the outset used his recent statements to support their stance.
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In the end, he said, the “things that really matter in our lives, they can’t be captured by a party label”.
