“We need leadership, common sense and concrete plans”, she said.
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Treating Muslim-Americans differently will only make the country less safe by increasing division between the West and the Muslim world, he said. “I think they’re likely to hate us no matter how we act, and we need to be able to defeat the ideology”. “They want us to validate them”. But his polling numbers were bad, he wasn’t finding any traction and found himself looking up at most all of the 16 other GOP candidates before a single ballot had been cast in the 2016 primaries. They were almost as unsparing as the Democrats in their criticism of his boundary-pushing response Monday to the killing of 49 people at a gay club in Orlando, Florida, by an American-born Muslim who pledged loyalty to the Islamic State group.
On Monday, Mr. Trump seized the Orlando horror to summon Americans to panic, repeating his call to seal the borders to Muslims and refugees, to expand the surveillance-and-security state, to keep the nation awash in guns, to treat all Muslims as terrorists or potential terrorists or the complicit enablers of terrorism.
Trump’s proposed ban on Muslims entering this country would be both “counterproductive” and “dangerous”, Clinton stated. I say, ‘What are you people doing? Lindsey Graham of SC. She echoed numerous president’s points and even some of his language, assailing Trump’s temperament, ridiculing his proposals and arguing that he had failed to meet the gravity of the moment. “Appreciate the congrats for being right on radical Islamic terrorism, I don’t want congrats, I want toughness & vigilance”.
“You gotta get over there and start making them pay where they live”, he said.
“When I am president, it will always be America first”, he wrote.
“One of the folks on television said, ‘Boy,
has Trump gotten
under his skin.’
And many people
said that”. “The level of anger, that’s the kind of anger that he should have for the shooter and these killers that shouldn’t be here”. And then when only Trump and Sen. He ended the day by announcing he would no longer credential reporters from The Washington Post to cover his campaign events. Trump said on social media.
Instead, the opposite has occurred as the billionaire businessman has stoked one controversy after another and shows no sign of slowing down.
Nonetheless, they seemed to be on the same page when it came to Trump, making a concerted effort to paint him as, in Clinton’s words, lacking substance, “temperamentally unfit and totally unqualified to be commander-in-chief”. “Trump doesn’t have a filter and doesn’t think about what he says before he says it”, said the former Steele County GOP chair, who resigned earlier this year over his objection to Trump’s candidacy.
Other congressional Republicans claimed, improbably, not to have heard what Trump said. “We don’t have religious tests here”, he added.
“Look, we’re led by a man that either is not tough, not smart or he’s got something else in mind”, Trump told Fox News. She never mentioning Trump’s name – though she alluded to some of his campaign slogans. “He makes every major decision in this campaign”, Lewandowski said in a recent interview.
For many Republicans the prospect of continually facing questions about Trump was plainly wearing thin. “I was right about many, many things”. “It’s inconceivable. There’s something going on”.
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“If Hillary Clinton becomes president, I don’t know that our country would ever, ever come back”, he said.
