Jennifer Epstein, a Bloomberg Politics reporter, actually asked Hillary Clinton during a press conference Monday whether she believed the series of terrorist attacks that shook parts of New York, New Jersey and Minnesota last weekend could have been part of a plot by the Russians to steer the election toward Donald Trump. A New York Times/Siena College poll in Florida, a key battleground state, shows Clinton at 51 percent support among voters aged 18-34 years old. She insinuated that Islamic militants, particularly those affiliated with the Islamic State, are rooting for Trump to win the White House.
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The campaigns weighed in after the weekend of bomb incidents and multiple stabbings in central Minnesota as the November 8 election loomed closer.
Saturday night’s explosion in the Chelsea neighborhood injured 29 people. A series of bombs found in NY and New Jersey attacks, some of which did not explode, left roughly 30 injured but did not kill anyone. She argued, as she has before, that the United States needs to invest more in intelligence to combat lone wolf attacks.
Authorities are also investigating the stabbings of nine people at a Minnesota mall as a possible act of terrorism.
He claimed credit on Friday for ending to the controversy that he stoked, falsely insisting that Clinton was responsible.
“Hillary Clinton’s weakness while she was secretary of state has emboldened terrorists all over the world to attack the USA, even on our own soil”.
Number two, it was Donald Trump who put the issue to rest when he got President Obama to release his birth certificate years late.
“There’s a reason why we haven’t had a woman president”, he said.
Trump also said that, unlike Clinton, who uses the supposedly anemic phrase “determined enemies” to describe Islamic State and similar groups, he was willing to “call them exactly what they are: “radical Islamist terrorists” – as if saying these magic words would make a difference.
On Monday, he called for tougher policing, including profiling foreigners who look like they could have connections to terrorism or certain Middle Eastern nations. “We know that Donald Trump’s comments have been used online for recruitment of terrorists”. -Iraqi status of forces agreement, and most American troops were withdrawn. While people supporting Clinton questioned whether Obama was born in the USA, neither the candidate nor campaign officials ever raised the issue publicly.
A USA -led coalition has been fighting ISIS mainly through air strikes in Syria and Iraq.
She’s scheduled to meet with the leaders of Egypt, Ukraine and Japan later in the day in New York City.
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Kaine condemned Trump in an interview with Chris Wallace on “Fox News Sunday”. “We’ve been weak, our country’s been weak”.
