He referred to Muslims as “these people” and emphasized the term “Radical Islam”.
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Trump has gotten angry with the Post several times in recent memory, but the headline for an article posted on Monday appears to have sparked the recent ban: “Donald Trump suggests President Obama was involved with Orlando shooting”.
“Look, we’re led by a man that either is not tough, not smart, or he’s got something else in mind”, Mr Trump told Fox News. “It’s inconceivable. There’s something going on”, he said, declining to specify what he was suggesting. Obama’s National Security advisor echoed Obama’s Tuesday’s comments nearly verbatim in an interview on Charlie Rose’s PBS show. In any event, the fact (assuming this CBS poll is representative) most Americans’ first instinct is to side with Obama’s view of terrorism rather than Trump’s is discouraging.
Mr Trump has regularly criticised the President for failing to use the phrase “radical Islamic terrorism” in the wake of attacks such as Orlando and the ISIS-inspired shootings at San Bernadino, California, last year.
What exactly would using this label would accomplish?
Overall, 57 percent said the Sunday attack would be best characterized as both a hate crime against gays and lesbians and an act of terrorism, while 14 percent said it was mostly a terrorist act and 25 percent said it was mostly a hate crime.
“The answer is none of the above”. Why he won’t use the term or why he doesn’t use it and it doesn’t make any difference but it does make a difference?
Trump had said: “Ask the gays what they think and what they do, in, not only Saudi Arabia, but many of these countries, and then you tell me – who’s your friend Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton?”.
Trump’s actions during the run up to the 2016 presidential election mark an alarming trend of curtailing freedom of the press in the United States.
“He should have said ‘radical Islam.’ I believe that”, Manchin said. “Obama’s speech was really all about political correctness”.
“The terrorist in Orlando was not born in Afghanistan, as Trump claims”, Clinton said in a national security speech in Virginia.
As we all know, the mass shooting in Orlando was one of the deadliest/ worst mass shootings in history. Are we going to start treating all Muslim-Americans differently?
“Where does this stop?”
Several of Trump’s fellow Republicans clearly did not agree with him.
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The president closed with a warning against inflammatory rhetoric and proposed policies created to discriminate against a group based on their religion.
