Trump also reveled in his decision to ban The Washington Post from covering his rallies due to what he deemed the newspaper’s “dishonest” coverage – one unprecedented in modern American political history.
Advertisement
However, Trump stood his ground.
And he dismissed Mr Trump’s suggestion that he resign because he refuses to use the word “radical Islamic terrorism”. “President Obama wanted to make clear that the United States government, the federal government says no to what Donald Trump is suggesting, that it is hateful bigotry”. “When I am president, it will always be America first”. For a while now, the main contribution of some of my friends on the other side of the aisle have made in the fight against ISIL is to criticize the administration and me for not using the phrase “radical Islam”.
“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.
“That’s not the America we want. I rent these large arenas.so I have an option” Trump said about denying access to the media, CNN reports. In the wake of the murder of almost 50 people in an Orlando nightclub by a man claiming allegiance to that terror group, Obama warned against the temptation to take actions “out of fear” that the nation might later come to regret.
“Where does this stop?”
“We now have proposals from the presumptive Republican nominee for president of the United States to bar all Muslims from immigrating to America”. Are we going to start discriminating against them due to their faith? Do Republican officials actually agree with this?
Trump, speaking in New Hampshire on Monday, went further than his earlier call for a temporary ban on Muslim immigrants when he said he would halt all immigration from nations associated with terrorism.
According to the CBS News poll, Clinton leads Trump 43% to 37% – numbers that are down significantly for both candidates from a couple months ago, when they garnered closer to 50% and 40%, respectively.
The poll, conducted from Friday to Tuesday, showed Clinton with an 11.6-point lead over Trump, down from the 13-point lead she had in the previous five days. He told his supporters Hillary Clinton wanted to allow refugees into the US from countries where “they want to kill gays and they enslave women and Hillary Clinton wants them pouring in”. “A ban on Muslims would not have stopped this attack. So numerous Republicans are so supportive”.
In a statement to Bloomberg News, Trump insisted that he “was referring to the fact that at times Obama seems more in support of Muslims than Israel”.
Advertisement
In her hard hitting speech, Clinton urged the Republican leadership to rebuke this “dangerous rhetoric”.
