“This is an especially heard breaking day for our fellow American who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender”, Obama said.
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“We have to decide if that’s the kind of country we want to be. Many people dead and wounded”.
And Clinton took a veiled swipe at Trump, who has proposed temporary banning Muslims from entering the United States, for targeting Muslims in his campaign rhetoric. They don’t report them. “You will find that many people that knew him (the Orlando shooter) felt that he was a whack job”. “We have to look at the mosques”.
On the other hand, terrorism experts say lone wolf attacks by people radicalized online are nearly impossible to detect and stop.
“In his remarks today, President Obama disgracefully refused to even say the words “Radical Islam”.
The political maneuvering comes after several weeks of bad news for Trump, and his swift mobilization in the aftermath of the horrific attack recalled his nimble topic-shifting on fast-developing dramas during his successful Republican primary campaign.
“Because our leaders are weak, I said this was going to happen – and it is only going to get worse”, he said in a statement. He acknowledged the tragedy – then said he would not drop out of the race and endorse Clinton until he’s convinced she’s committed to fighting wealth disparity.
“Today marks the most deadly shooting in American history…a further reminder how easy it is to get hands on weapons” that allow them to kill many people “in a school, or a house of worship, or a movie theater or a nightclub”, said Obama, who has been compelled to make speeches about mass shootings about a dozen times during his almost eight years in office. He did not talk about religious extremists.
The FBI is investigating as an act of terrorism, Obama said. “When will we get tough, smart & vigilant?”
“Last night, our nation was attacked by a radical Islamic terrorist”, Trump said in a statement. But it’s not reasonable to expect either Trump or Clinton to refrain from addressing what has sadly become the new normal in the age of terror.
She said the United States needs to “redouble our efforts to defend our country from threats at home and abroad” while calling for additional restrictions on guns, something she has called for repeatedly on the campaign trail. The official was not authorized to discuss the ongoing investigation and spoke on condition of anonymity.
Presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump tweeted: “Horrific incident in Florida”.
With many victims of the carnage yet to be identified, and police still probing the suspected Islamist ties of the slain gunman, Trump wasted no time in harnessing the assault to his political advantage. Serwer asked. “I personally have no problem talking about Islamic extremism, but would it make the fight against it more successful if our officials were willing to call it that?”
“Appreciate the congrats for being right on radical Islamic terrorism, I don’t want congrats, I want toughness & vigilance”, Donald Trump tweeted. “We must be smart!” he’d written earlier.
Republican Senator Larry Pressler announced on Sunday that he would be switching his presidential endorsement to Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton because he found Mr. Trump’s response to the attack disturbing.
In a similar vein, when Clinton and Obama renewed their call for tighter gun controls, that will appeal to those who believe deadly weapons are too readily available in America, even if such laws would not have stopped Mateen.
Hillary Clinton responded on Facebook in a more restrained fashion. “Hillary will bring hundreds of thousands of refugees, many of whom have hostile beliefs about people of different faiths and values and some of whom absolutely and openly support terrorism in our country”, he said.
We need to protect all Americans, of all backgrounds and all beliefs, from Radical Islamic Terrorism – which has no place in an open and tolerant society. “We have enough problems right now”.
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In his interview, Oren revealed that there is a standing order at the Israeli embassy in Washington as to how to behave when there is mass violence in the U.S. He canceled a rally scheduled for Monday, but planned to go forward with a speech in New Hampshire, changing the topic from his case against Clinton to national security. But her campaign later stated that Trump lacks the qualifications and temperament to be president and that he is placing his own interests above those of the nation.
