“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.
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NY officials said Monday the bombings in a Manhattan neighborhood and a New Jersey shore town were looking increasingly like acts of terrorism with a foreign connection.
In an ABC News/Washington Post poll released September 11, Clinton led, 50 percent to Trump’s 41 percent among all adults and 48 percent to Trump’s 45 percent among likely voters when asked about who was more trusted to handle terrorism.
Authorities arrested 28-year-old Ahmad Rahami on Monday in connection with a series of bombs planted in NY and New Jersey over the last three days.
A shrapnel-packed pressure-cooker bomb exploded in New York’s Chelsea area, wounding 29 people Saturday evening. He spoke in a phone interview Monday. She said she is “appalled” that Trump has not apologized for questioning President Obama’s birthplace and thus his legitimacy to be president, now that Trump has disavowed the theory that Obama was born outside the United States.
It is unclear whether Trump obtained his information from some sort of briefing. His campaign declined to say whether it came from a national security briefing.
The Clinton campaign is stepping up efforts against Trump statewide as polls show an increasingly close race between Trump and Clinton for Pennsylvania’s 20 electoral votes.
He continued about Holt: “By the way, Lester is a Democrat”.
“I think this is something that maybe will. happen more and more all over the country”, he said. “This is the kind of challenge that law enforcement can be and is prepared to address, namely going after anyone who would threaten the United States”, she said.
Dozens of former high-ranking national security officials are calling on Donald Trump to disclose the nature of his overseas business relationships, including his foreign investments and worldwide business partners. However, the Democratic nominee did suggest her Republican adversary has been responsible for helping ISIS grow their ranks.
The letter was signed by numerous supporters of Hillary Clinton, including retired Marine Gen. John Allen and Michael Morell, the former acting director of the Central Intelligence Agency.
The latest USA national surveys show Trump has erased nearly all of Clinton’s eight-percentage-point edge she held in early August. They singled out Trump’s repeated praise for Russian President Vladimir Putin. If appeasing the Muslim world was all it took for America to be safe we wouldn’t have had any terrorist attacks on our soil since Obama took office. They are wrong to say that we’re in a fight about ‘narratives.’ These terrorists pose an existential threat to our country, our values, and our way of life.
At a campaign rally that same night, Trump told attendees that there had been a “bombing” in NY, hours before law enforcement announced the cause of the explosion.
“Thousands of people are pouring into our country, we have no idea what we are doing”, he said.
Obama also ripped into Trump, calling his campaign “an infomercial”.
He said: “This isn’t just something that I developed overnight” because of the attacks.
O’REILLY: I didn’t know that.
Clinton also said she favors tough vetting of immigrants, noting, “we need a better visa system”.
“Hillary Clinton talks tougher about my supporters than she does about radical Islamic terrorists”, Trump said, pointing to Clinton’s comments that half his supporters belong in a “basket of deplorables”. She calls the patriotic Americans who support our campaign, many of them cops and soldiers, deplorable and irredeemable, and she means it. Millions and millions of people.
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But Trump hit back, saying his Democratic rival and the Obama administration hadn’t done enough to quell the group’s rise.
