“The burden is on Hillary Clinton to tell us why she believes that immigration from these unsafe countries should be increased without any effective system … to screen”, Trump said.
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Clinton sought to strike a balance between toughness – she vowed to hunt down terrorist sympathizers – and restraint by cautioning against a backlash against American Muslims, saying that will only fuel the problem of “self-radicalization”. “If we don’t get tough, and if we don’t get smart-and fast-we’re not going to have our country anymore”, he said. And it mattered we got bin Laden, not what name we called him.
Senate Democrats said Monday they may offer an amendment to a spending bill for the departments of Commerce and Justice that would prohibit people on the government’s terrorist watch list from purchasing guns and explosives.
In her address today on national security and gun control, Hillary made no direct mention of the term “radical Islam” and instead adopted her usual phrases such as “radicalization” and “extremism”. And I think that I have been clear that demonizing and demagoguing about Muslims is not only offensive it is unsafe and it plays into ISIS’s hands. It’s a strike at the heart and soul of who we are as a nation. This follows a similar pattern from his campaign of painting Muslim Americans as knowledgeable conspirators in terror attacks. “And believe me, the community knows the people that have potential for blow up”, said Trump, who has been criticised for advocating a ban on Muslim immigrants.
His proposal, as outlined Monday during a speech in New Hampshire, is for a ban on “immigration from areas of the world where there is a proven history of terrorism against the United States, Europe or our allies – until we fully understand how to end these threats”.
Later Obama admitted that the terrorist was likely acting on a “vicious, bankrupt ideology” propagated by terrorist groups to target gays but reminded reporters that Islam was not the only religion that could be misinterpreted.
“The things he says worked in the primary but he needs to expand his base”, the source said of Trump. And people that are around him, Muslims know who they are, largely. After Romans interjected, Trump replied, “She would love to use those words because nearly everybody agrees that those words should be used”. “This is going to get worse and worse”, Trump said.
It’s unclear how Trump’s new proposal will be received by the rest of his party, but given that it was part of his prepared remarks, you can bet they won’t be completely surprised by it.
“We know the gunman used a weapon of war to shoot down at least 50 innocent Americans”, Clinton told CNN.
The most scathing attacks on Trump’s temperament after the attacks came from Clinton herself, whose campaign has aggressively sought to brand Trump as unsympathetic and uneducated on foreign policy.
INSKEEP: Secretary Clinton, thanks very much for taking the time.
Obama said there was no evidence that Mateen, who killed 49 people at the club before he was shot dead by police, was part of a wider plot.
And the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee made the case for stricter gun safety laws in the wake of the massacre, arguing that “common sense gun safety reform across our country would make a difference” while calling for the reinstatement of an assault weapons ban. “I think it should be reinstated”, she said. That ban expired after 10 years and has not been renewed.
On the other hand, Trump said that if people in Pulse had been armed, the scope of the tragedy would have been lessened.
Trump went further on “Fox and Friends” on the Fox News Channel saying that American Muslims know who the terrorists are.
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“We have to really increase the bombing”, he said. “It is time to get back to the spirit of those days, the spirit of 9/12, let’s keep looking for the best within our country, the best within each of us”. “It’s inconceivable. There’s something going on”. “People can not believe that President Obama is acting the way he is and can not even mention radical Islam”.
