Trump repeated his sentiments on Twitter writing, “Is President Obama going to finally mention the words radical Islamic terrorism?”.
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“Whatever we learn about this killer, his motives in the days ahead”, Clinton said of the Orlando gunman, “we know already the barbarity we face from radical jihadists is profound”. “And the something else in mind – you know, people can’t believe it. …” But there are many people that think maybe he doesn’t want to get it. “He doesn’t want to see what’s really happening”. In fact, Omar Mateen was born in the United States. He did not linger on the fact that the shooter in Orlando was born in America.
Presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump on Monday attempted to undermine Hillary Clinton’s support among the LGBT community by accusing her of wanting to allow people into the United States “who reject our values” on issues like women’s rights and gay rights.
“When I’m elected, I will suspend immigration from areas of the world where there is a proven history of terrorism against the United States, Europe or our allies, until we fully understand how to end these threats”, Trump said during a highly-anticipated national security speech in New Hampshire. He did not specify what countries would be affected or whether the suspension would apply regardless of religion.
“This could be a better, bigger, more frightful version than the legendary Trojan horse ever was”, Trump said, adding that it admitted “hundreds of thousands of refugees from the Middle East with no system to vet them”.
He also said it was time “to have a ban of people coming in from Syria and different parts of the world with this philosophy that is so hateful and so disgusting”.
But critics have blasted Trump for his response to the attack on an Orlando LGBT nightclub, at once the largest mass shooting in American history, a terrorist attack and a hate crime. Another 53 people were hospitalized, most in critical condition.
“Radical Islam is anti-woman, anti-gay, and anti-American”, he said, later adding that “Clinton wants to allow radical Islamic terrorists to pour into our country-they enslave women, and murder gays”. Overseas, the presumptive Democratic nominee called for ramping up the USA air campaign targeting the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria and pointedly called out US partners in the region by name, saying Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Qatar must stop their citizens from funding terrorism. Clinton called for gun sale restrictions on people being monitored by the FBI’s terrorist watch list.
“I think this is going to force a conversation in a way that not even the San Bernardino shootings did”, she said.
Clinton’s address was measured and sober.
Democratic U.S. presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks at a campaign rally in Cleveland, Ohio, June 13, 2016.
“We must continue to forge our partnership with Israel and work to ensure Israel’s security”, he said.
Donald Trump prefaced his speech Monday by noting he had planned to attack Hillary Clinton, but in light of the mass shooting in Orlando over the weekend, he would save that opportunity for another time.
Clinton also reiterated her call for tougher gun control measures, a policy proposal that has been a centerpiece of her presidential campaign.
While some Republican leaders have encouraged Trump to abandon his proposed Muslim ban in an effort to broaden his support among voters before November’s general election, the Orlando attack appeared Sunday to harden the billionaire businessman’s position.
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“Our leadership is weak and ineffective”. “But if he is somehow suggesting I don’t call this for what it is, he hasn’t been listening”.
