“Where does this stop?”
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Despite Mateen’s American birth, Trump seized on the attack as another example of a failed US immigration system. Obama said. “Are we going to start treating all Muslim-Americans differently?”
Manchin also said on Wednesday that “we’ve had radical Christians, we’ve had people go into churches, Christians, and kill people”, possibly referencing the Charleston church shooting from June 2015. We can say we don’t. And let’s see what happens.
Because that’s not the America we want. Her campaign is now running an ad blasting Trump as intolerant and divisive.
The President’s strongly worded attack on Trump’s plans did not name the presumptive Republican nominee for president.
For Republican officials already struggling with whether to fully embrace him, Trump’s willingness to engage in stories usually limited to supermarket tabloids is only making their options more complicated. They were almost as unsparing as the Democrats in their criticism of his boundary-pushing response to the killings.
Trump displays a level of irresponsibility that should worry Americans, not just because his statements are immoral and unconstitutional, but because they put the country at greater risk.
I can appreciate why it’s easy to grow inured by the avalanche of offensive nonsense coming from the Republican Party’s presumptive presidential nominee. “I refuse to be politically correct”, he said. Lindsey Graham of SC.
On overall judgment, however, Clinton pulls ahead of Trump, earning 43 per cent of support from those who believe she shows good judgment, compared with Trump who comes in at 25 per cent among those who view his judgment favourably.
Later in the day, he said Obama should resign unless he is willing to starting saying the words “radical Islam“. “They’re pouring in and we don’t know what we’re doing”. “I just don’t think it looks presidential”.
The terrorist attack, it should be noted, left 49 dead, 53 injured and has become the country’s deadliest mass shooting, and the worst terror attack since 9/11. “Even in a time of divided politics, this is way beyond anything that should be said by someone running for president”.
“Why he won’t use that term or why he doesn’t use it and how it doesn’t make difference, but it does make a difference”, Mr Trump argued and alleged that his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton is blindly following the US President. “We don’t need conspiracy theories and pathological self-congratulations”. Obama criticized those who call for ISIS to be termed “radical Islam“, and asked “What exactly would using this label… accomplish?” “There’s something going on”.
“You know, the Republicans, honestly, folks, our leaders – our leaders have to get tougher”, he said.
Donald Trump continues to invoke his newly enumerated, but highly dubious support for LGBT people to encourage his election to the White House. President Obama made sure to remind us all what American values really are. And she noted that Trump had wrongly declared that the shooter in Orlando had been born in Afghanistan.
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“It’s like his agenda is to destroy America in everything he’s done”, she said.
