On Monday, Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, implied Obama was secretly supporting terrorists, as evidenced by his refusal to call attacks like Sunday’s massacre at an Orlando, Florida, gay nightclub “radical Islamic” terrorism.
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Trump noted that he called for a ban on Muslim immigration after the terror attacks in San Bernardino, California.
A Trump spokeswoman did not respond to a request for an explanation of what Trump meant. Trump’s campaign manager, New Hampshire resident Corey Lewandowski, told the Globe that, “We’re going to be there a lot leading up to the general election”. “She wants to take away Americans’ guns, then admit the very people who want to slaughter us”.
“That’s just one person”, he said of the Orlando shooting.
“The horror is beyond description”.
“It’s important that we stop the terrorists from getting the tools they need to carry out the attacks, and that is especially true when it comes to assault weapons like those used in Orlando and San Bernardino”, she said, drawing a standing ovation from the crowd. “Likewise, our whole nation and, indeed, the whole world is devastated”.
Neil LeVesque, Director of the Institute of politics at Saint Anselm College says he is not sure how smart the speech was but he does know that if it has put Trump, once again, in the middle of the front page story.
The false claim that Mateen was born in Afghanistan was not included in Trump’s prepared remarks distributed by the campaign during Monday’s speech, but was part of an off-book section of his speech.
Simultaneously boasting about his NRA endorsement, Trump pledged that he would use his executive power to restrict immigration from countries with “a proven history of terrorism” against the United States and its allies.
Mateen’s father had a talk show in the U.S. which a former Afghan official described as pro-Taliban.
Trump called for “partnership with our Muslim communities.
It’s an attack on the right of every single American to live in peace and safety in their own country”, Trump said. That speech, revealing the degree to which Clinton does not have the temperament to be president, he said (a nod to her line about him) will come “very, very soon”, he assured. “You have millions of allies who will always have your back and I am one of them”.
“Often when you have a disaster like this, nuance is not usually what people are looking for”, said UCF political science professor Aubrey Jewett. “The only reason the killer was in America in the first place was because we allowed his family to come here….It will be much, much easier to deal with our current problem if we don’t keep on bringing in people who add to the problem”.
He called on her to explain why she has proposed to allow refugees into the country.
“Ask yourself, who is really the friend of women and the LGBT community, Donald Trump with his actions, or Hillary Clinton with her words?”
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Trump went on to call for a strengthening of intelligence and immigration communities and called for President Obama to release the immigration histories of all individuals implicated in terrorist activities.
