U.S. Senator Lamar Alexander speaks in Charleston, Tenn., at Wacker’s grand opening ceremony for their new $2.5 billion plant in April 2016.
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We now have proposals from the presumptive Republican nominee for president of the United States to bar all Muslims from immigrating into America.
Trump on Tuesday met at Trump Tower in NY with a host of Republican governors, including Oklahoma’s Mary Fallin, who a source close to the campaign said was also on Trump’s short list to be his vice presidential running mate.
Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Corker, who had earlier praised Trump, also expressed his disappointment at the latter’s response to the tragedy. “It’s going to be five months of it”, said Sen.
“I think he’s dead on the money”, said Brad Butler, a 45-year-old Trump supporter from Dallas, Georgia.
David, let’s talk about President Obama and Hillary Clinton going after Donald Trump, and Donald Trump returning the criticism.
Trump, the Republican presidential hopeful, reiterated his call for a ban on Muslims entering the USA, implied Muslim Americans knew in advance about terrorist attacks, and called on the U.S. president to resign over Orlando. The president followed that up by going after Donald Trump’s proposed plan to “ban Muslisms” and the general tenor of his campaign.
GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham of SC denounced Trump’s comments about Obama as “highly offensive”.
In a speech on Tuesday, President Obama questioned why it matters what language we use when discussing terrorists, but Senator Manchin has a different view from the president. “Are we going to discriminate against them due to their faith?” 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.
“Of course we want to keep our country safe…But I want to underscore we rely on partners in majority Muslim countries to help us fight terrorists”. Mike Rogers, the former head of the House Intelligence Committee, claimed Obama’s remarks were just as bad as Trump’s: “This was the chance for the President to try to bring us together”.
Trump responded at a Tuesday night campaign rally held in Greensboro, North Carolina.
Trump acknowledged that his initial proposal to ban Muslims following the shootings in San Bernardino was met with great anger.
In a speech on Monday, Trump said he would suspend immigration from countries with a “proven history of terrorism ” against the US, Europe and allied countries “until we fully understand how to end these threats”.
Other congressional Republicans claimed, improbably, not to have heard what Trump said. “They’re probably somewhere. Maybe they’re in the back, in the back bleachers”. “I love it! We just took the press credentials away from the dishonest Washington Post”, Trump said as the audience erupted in raucous cheers and applause. “And I think the smarter way to go in all respects is to have a security test and not a religious test”.
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He said that his stand was a major reason for the support he has received.
