Although it was not immediately clear whether the assailant had pledged allegiance to ISIS, Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly asked Trump if he would seek a declaration of war from Congress against the terror group.
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Clinton proposed modernizing North Atlantic Treaty Organisation to better prepare for future terrorist attacks, accelerating the coordination of intelligence sharing between countries, and avoiding playing into ISIL’s hands by sending American troops into Iraq or Syria.
Republican Donald Trump declared “this is war” and Democrat Hillary Clinton vowed “we will not be intimidated”.
Pressed by Cooper to define the enemy Clinton said, ‘We are at war against radical jihadists who use Islam to recruit and radicalize others in order to pursue their evil agenda’.
The next morning, campaign manager Paul Manafort said that Trump “emotionally reacted to [the attack], it really bothered him, and he felt the pain, just felt it was not right to do something self-serving and political the day after”.
Trump postponed Friday’s previously scheduled running mate announcement due to the France terror attack. I mean, we’re spending a fortune on North Atlantic Treaty Organisation.
“We still do not have enough intelligence cooperation between our agencies and those in other countries, including in Europe, and we need to have a focal point … in North Atlantic Treaty Organisation”, she told O’Reilly.
During a phone interview with Fox News’s Bill O’Reilly, Trump said he would be prepared to declare war on unspecified terrorists and commit North Atlantic Treaty Organisation troops in a “world war”. Well, here, we have an ideology, it’s not a nation state, and when people draw comparisons with World War, and even call this World War III, it’s a very different kind of war. “What is happening is terrorist groups are seeing that they have opportunities inside France for homegrown terrorism and supporting terrorists”, Clinton said in her phone interview on CNN Thursday evening.
The Democratic presidential candidate said, ‘This cowardly attack only strengthens our commitment to our alliance and to defeating terrorism around the world. And the statement would be we know they’re in Raqqah.
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On Thursday night, a man driving a truck plowed through a large crowd of people celebrating France’s Bastille Day in Nice, killing 80 people and wounding dozens of others. And we’re going to come in, and that’s not going to be their headquarters anymore. He pledged USA support to France as it investigates the attack. “It’s early to tell”, Mr Trump said. “The United States stands ready to support the French people”.
