Following the tragedy, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump renewed his call for a ban on Muslim immigration, though Mateen was born in NY and held a usa passport. “It’s going to be five months of it”.
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“Where does this stop?” Are we going to start subjecting them to special surveillance? “They have get sharper”, he said in Atlanta.
Meanwhile, legal scholars say Mr Trump’s proposal for suspending immigration from parts of the world with a history of terrorism could have a legal basis, but his assertion that it be part of a broader ban on Muslim immigrants makes it constitutionally untenable. And let’s see what happens. Because that’s not the America we want – it doesn’t reflect our democratic ideals. He has turned the war into a crime that when we capture a high valued target, we don’t interrogate them anymore and put them in federal court.
Malik Mujahid, a Chicago area imam, said Trump is using a general sense of fear and insecurity stemming from the San Bernardino attacks last December and the Orlando shootings to stoke Islamophobia in the hope of rallying his supporters. Most of the survey was conducted before the Orlando shooting massacre, however.
Ryan spokeswoman AshLee Strong declined to respond to Trump, instead pointing to Ryan’s remarks during a Tuesday news conference, during which Ryan reasserted that he does not “think a Muslim ban is in our country’s interest” nor “reflective of our principles”.
More Democrats and independents expect Clinton to win, while Republicans predict more American voters will side with Trump. I find that whole line of reasoning way off base. Lindsey Graham of SC.
Hillary Clinton said Monday she’s is “happy to say” the phrase “radical Islamism”.
“I guess I appreciate Mr. Trump’s fieriness in talking about it, and strength, but you don’t do it by alienating the very people we need and those are moderate Muslims”, said Kinzinger. “Are we going to start discriminate them, due to their faith?” President Barack Obama took a veiled swipe at Mr Trump on Tuesday, saying such ideas represented a “dangerous” mindset.
“When I am president, it will always be America first”, he wrote.
“But I’ll tell you what he’s been one hell of a lousy president, he’s done a bad job”, he said. “Just think about that for a second”.
Other Republican leaders have tried to distance themselves from Trump’s comments. But she’s being totally protected.
“We are now seeing how unsafe this kind of mindset and this kind of thinking can be”, he said.
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The Congresswoman drew a contrast between then-President George W. Bush’s unifying speech after the 9/11 attacks and Trump’s divisive approach.
