As investigators continue to try to determine a motive behind Orlando, Trump says it points to just one thing. Donald Trump claimed credit for sounding warnings about Islamic terrorism and called, once again, for a suspension of immigration from predominantly Muslim countries.
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“It is disrespectful to the people who were killed and wounded, and their families”, Clinton said.
In a rare public display of fury on Tuesday, Mr Obama denounced the presumptive Republican presidential nominee for peddling a “dangerous” mindset. “So you tell me who’s better for the gay community or for women than Donald Trump”.
Continuing in the same vein at a rally, he said: “I watched President Obama today, and he was more angry at me than he was at the shooter”.
The video came one day after the presumptive Republican presidential nominee told supporters in Dallas that “LGBT is starting to like Donald Trump very much lately, I will tell you, starting to like Donald Trump very, very much lately”, the Hill reported.
Obama also said that Trump’s rhetoric is only “fueling terrorists” by painting a narrative that the “West hates Muslims”, something the president said only makes Muslim Americans fearful. I mean, they said – they made the statement that I said that Obama – essentially, Obama went in and shot the people.
Clinton on Wednesday said Trump has been “fixated” on the phrase radical Islam “as if those are magic words that, once uttered, will stop terrorists from coming after us”.
The president’s remarks were his first reaction to Trump’s speech Monday after last Sunday’s mass shooting – and perhaps his strongest yet on the threat he sees the businessman candidate poses to the USA politics and security.
Hillary Clinton, whom Trump had also faulted for not using the term “radical Islam” had a similar reaction.
A CBS News poll conducted in the days since the attack finds 51 percent of those surveyed said they did not like the way Trump was handling the shooting. She said the United States counts on partners in majority-Muslim countries to help fight terrorism. “It’s going to happen again and again and again”, Trump said.
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President Barack Obama speaks to members of the media in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Monday, June 13, 2016.
