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After bombings, Clinton says Trump’s words enable terrorist

“On top of all of that, he will be represented by an outstanding lawyer”.

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“I’m appalled that Donald Trump will not apologize to the president and to the country for spending years questioning his citizenship and attempting to delegitimize him”, Mrs. Clinton said on “The Steve Harvey Morning Show”.

“We must deliver a just and very harsh punishment to these people”, he said.

Hillary Clinton accused Donald Trump on Monday of imperiling USA national security with his campaign rhetoric, as Trump called for police profiling of people from the Muslim world in the aftermath of bombings in NY and New Jersey. Both shifted into the mode of combat, with Clinton stressing her national security credentials and measuring her words, and Trump sounding a note of furious alarm. She supports a strong vetting program. Trump is insisting the US should “use whatever lawful methods are available” to get information from the Afghan immigrant arrested in this weekend’s bombings.

Meanwhile, Democrat Hillary Clinton, who has been attacked by Trump as being soft on terrorism, yesterday called for “tough vetting” of immigrants to avoid letting potential terrorists into the country.

Clinton branded the Republican nominee as a “recruiting sergeant for the terrorists”.

Clinton and her team see her experience and what they say is her steady judgment as key selling points for her candidacy.

Clinton has stayed ahead of her Republican foe by a 50-45 margin in the NBC News/SurveyMonkey weekly tracking poll of a two-way race. On the campaign trail, she frequently invokes her role in the 2011 raid that killed Osama bin Laden, describing to voters the tense atmosphere in the White House alongside President Barack Obama at that moment.

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Trump last week publicly said for the first time unequivocally that Obama was born in the US. “When a terror threat is high, the public puts a high priority on strong leadership traits”. But since the project’s methods are unlike those of more traditional polls, it may be an outlier.

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