The incumbent has often dismissed Trump as a buffoon, but never openly attacked his ideas or his language.
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“This was a country founded on religious freedom”.
“Yesterday morning, just one day after the massacre, he went on TV and suggested President Obama is on the side of the terrorists”, Clinton said.
Donald Trump on Wednesday renewed his call for surveillance of mosques in the United States, reviving a controversial policy proposal Trump has not raised in such direct terms since becoming the presumptive Republican presidential nominee.
However, Trump asserted that the president has authority to suspend entry into the United States for any “class of person” that he deems necessary.
Ronnie Rae Milligan of Morganton, another Trump supporter, criticized the president for harping on guns and not “the actual people who do the shooting”, but admitted that he did not think Mr. Obama has been lying about his religion. If there is anyone out there who thinks we are confused about who our enemies are – that would come to a surprise of the thousands of terrorists we have taken on our battlefield. The numbers for President Barack Obama’s handling of the shooting are much better. He continued to explain, “It doesn’t reflect our democratic ideals”.
Republicans have repeatedly drawn attention to the fact that Obama does not characterize lone wolf terror attacks, such as what happened in San Bernardino, California, in December of 2015 and most recently in Orlando, Florida, as acts of “radical Islam”. We have seen our government mistreat our fellow citizens.
“Where does this stop?”
Treating Muslim-Americans differently will only make the country less safe by increasing division between the West and the Muslim world, he said.
“I watched President Obama today and he was more angry at me than the shooter”, Trump said. Are we going to start discriminating against them due to their faith?.
Hillary Clinton also let out a full-throated response, saying that her rival’s Monday speech should disqualify him from running for president. “We need leadership and concrete plans because we are facing a brutal enemy”.
“That terrorist in Orlando was not born in Afghanistan as Trump claims”, Clinton said.
CNN has reached out to the Trump campaign for comment.
Trump said the ban will be lifted when “we as a nation are in a position” to properly and perfectly screen those people coming into the US.
During his speech earlier, Obama lambasted the real estate developer for his “dangerous” policy ideas and his proposed ban on Muslims entering the USA, asking, “Do Republican officials actually agree with this?”.
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On Tuesday, House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., who has endorsed Trump, once again clearly spoke out against Trump’s major campaign plank.
