“I have sat at that table in the Situation Room”.
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“Let’s remember 9/11”, she said.
The New York Police Department said Monday that it is seeking 28-year-old Ahmad Khan Rahami, a naturalized USA citizen born in Afghanistan, in connection with Saturday’s bombing in Manhattan. Authorities were also investigating the stabbings of nine people at a Minnesota mall as a possible act of terrorism.
Police released a photo of a 28-year-old immigrant wanted for questioning in the blasts.
Secretary Clinton’s citation of her experience fighting terrorism, then, appears to be a challenge to the idea that a terrorist attack naturally favors Donald Trump, an assumption that the media is all too happy to make.
Mrs Clinton’s response included a pitch for the presidency, emphasising the public support she has received from security officials from both major parties and her experience as USA secretary of state.
“Knock the hell out of ’em”, Trump said on “Fox and Friends” in a telephone interview. We’re being very gentle about it.
He said that USA leaders, including Obama, “coddle” potential terrorists.
He once again took credit for predicting current events, pointing to his Saturday night announcement that a bomb had caused the explosion in New York City.
“We know that a lot of the rhetoric that we’ve heard from Donald Trump has been seized on by terrorists including ISIS because they are looking to make this a war against Islam”, Clinton said, using one of the acronyms for the Islamic State. She insinuated that Islamic militants, particularly those affiliated with ISIS, are rooting for Trump to win the White House.
Trump said Monday morning that his plan involved profiling, limiting immigration to the United States and foreign military intervention that would “knock the hell out of” terrorist groups overseas.
“We’re going after the bad guys and we’re going to get them but we’re not going to go after an entire religion, and give ISIS exactly what its wanting in order for them to enhance their position”, she said.
At an invitation-only event at Temple University, she acknowledged that she needs to do more to get millennials on board.
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She was to meet with the leaders of Egypt, Ukraine and Japan late in the day in New York City. Because of that, the letter says, the next president of the USA should champion policies that are “motivated exclusively by what is in America’s best interest, not by the financial interests of our president”, the New York Times reports.
