Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton had jumped on Trump for that misstatement, saying Tuesday that Mateen was “born in Queens, New York just like Donald himself”.
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“I watched President Obama today”, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, 70, said during a Tuesday, June 14, rally in Greensboro, North Carolina.
Trump, the likely Republican presidential nominee for the Nov 8 election, has blamed Democratic policies for the worst mass shooting in USA history and doubled-down on his pledge to ban Muslim immigration, while Clinton has warned against demonising Muslim-Americans. This week will be as vulnerable as Hillary Clinton will ever be to the politics of fear that Trump is exploiting, so if she survives with a lead, it will be an encouraging sign for the remainder of the campaign. Obama demanded, noting that the shooter responsible for the killing of 49 people in Orlando was born in the USA, as were the attackers in several previous terrorists acts.
Obama also drew an implied analogy between Trump’s call for a ban on Muslim journey and the most “black” moments in American history when the authorities had mistreated its individuals, including that then Constitution forbad spiritual evaluations.
“The men and women who put their lives at risk, and the Special Forces I ordered to get [Osama] bin Laden and are now on the ground in Iraq and in Syria – they know full well who the enemy is”, Obama continued. Republican leaders who said last week that they expected a change in tone after Trump’s racist attacks on a California judge quickly received their answer.
“When I am president, it will always be America first”, he wrote.
Former head of the House Intelligence Committee, Mike Rogers, faulted for treading the exact same type of political terrain with his furious comments as Trump Obama. Would it make [ISIS] less committed to try and kill Americans?
But Ms. Clinton, as careful in her language as Mr. Trump is impulsive in his, clearly set herself apart in a different way as well; she pointedly began to use the phrase “radical Islamism”, which in the context of the terror attack may seem thoroughly unremarkable but which in the context of the current presidential campaign is a major departure.
Obama struck a more bipartisan tone in speaking to members of Congress and their families during a picnic Tuesday evening on the South Lawn. “So, there is no magic to the phrase ‘radical Islam.’ It is a political talking point”.
Such rhetoric was more evidence to Minnesota Republican activist Dave Thul that Trump is unfit for the presidency. It is also true that that does not happen in election years in the United States. “That’s not our business”, she said. They want us to validate them by implying that they speak for those billion-plus people, that they speak for Islam.
At the same time, Ms. Clinton called on Americans to have “clear eyes, steady hands, and unwary determination and pride in our country and our values”. Critics said his focus on Muslim-Americans was inappropriate, with Sen. Trump said. However, the businessman has said he opposes gay marriage – the official position of the Republican Party – while Clinton and Democrats back same-sex unions.
“As president, I have repeatedly called on our Muslim friends and allies at home and around the world to work with us to reject this twisted interpretation of one of the world’s great religions”.
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“Yesterday morning, just one day after the massacre, he went on TV and suggested President Obama is on the side of the terrorists”, Clinton said.
