In the wake of the triple-terror attacks in New York, New Jersey and Minnesota this weekend, she’s now taking a page from Trump’s immigration playbook and calling for rigorous vetting of migrants.
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Presidential Nominee: I have sat at that table in the Situation Room.
“I am going to close my campaign the same way I started my career: fighting for kids and young people and families”, she said to loud applause. We are facing a candidate with a long history of racial discrimination in his businesses, who retweets white supremacists, who led the birther movement to delegitimize our first black president and is still lying about it today.
When Obama did speak, he was perfunctory, warning the media not to rush to judgment and refusing to call the bombings terrorism, though he did say the Minnesota stabbings were a “potential act of terror”.
Trump 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.
On Sept. 19, 28-year-old Ahmad Khan Rahami was arrested on suspicion he had planted the bombs in NY and New Jersey.
Ahmad Khan Rahami is taken into custody after a shootout with police Monday, in Linden, NJ, September 19, 2016.
“We’re not knocking them, we’re hitting them once in a while; we’re hitting them in certain places”.
“I think this is something that maybe will happen perhaps more and more over the country”, Trump said. “They are afraid to do anything about it because they don’t want to be accused of, uh, profiling”, he said. We’re letting people in by the thousands and tens of thousands.
Clinton is also pressing her argument that Trump does not have the temperament to serve as president in the aftermath of the attacks. “They are hoping and praying that Hillary Clinton becomes President so that they can continue their savagery and murder”, Trump said.
“We know that a lot of the rhetoric we’ve heard from Donald Trump has been seized on by terrorists, in particular ISIS, because they are looking to make this into a war against Islam rather than a war against jihadists, violent terrorists”, said Clinton, speaking at an airport hangar in White Plains, N.Y.
The Democratic candidate accused Trump on Monday of aiding the Islamic State militant group in its recruiting process, citing comments from former U.S. intelligence director Michael Hayden that militants were using Trump’s rhetoric to attract potential fighters. “We should work with our allies to keep us safe”, Clinton said.
Both candidates for the November 8 election tried to use the weekend attacks to flex their credentials to protect America as world leaders gathered in security-heightened NY for the annual United Nations General Assembly.
Clinton said that young people she has spoken with to over the course of this campaign have expressed concerns about divisiveness and discrimination. “I get that, and I want to do my best to answer those questions”, Clinton said pleadingly to the Milennials during her speech.
This election marks the first presidential campaign where millennials make up the single largest generation among United States adults, having surpassed baby boomers during the past four years. These topics were at the core of the presidential campaign of Bernie Sanders – the raspy, populist Vermont senator who proved to be formidable challenger to Clinton as he overwhelmingly won the support of young people and liberals.
Both Trump and Clinton ended their days in New York City, where they met with leaders gathered for the United Nations General Assembly.
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The lights darkened in the Germain Arena, and the people in the audience raised their iPhones like they were at a rock concert, rather than a campaign event for the Republican nominee taking place the same day a suspected terrorist was arrested for attempting, but failing, to kill Americans in New Jersey and NY. Trump announced plans to meet with Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah El-Sissi on Monday.
