Trump, Clinton offer different visions in Orlando response

Instead, he said he’d stick it out through the Washington, D.C., primary Tuesday (it’s the last one of the 2016 campaign).

Clinton, while more hawkish in her rhetoric than Obama, would be a far more conventional national security president than Trump, partly owing to experience on the global stage as a former first lady and secretary of state.

Mr Trump and many Republican allies have cast both Mr Obama’s and Mrs Clinton’s parsing style as political correctness with risky consequences. In addition to her support for an assault weapons ban, she also said Americans should be able to agree that “if the Federal Bureau of Investigation is watching you for a suspected terrorist link, you shouldn’t be able to just go buy a gun with no questions asked”.

Donald Trump on Monday accused Muslim refugees wanting to enter the United States of “trying to take over our children and convince them how wonderful ISIS is”, as he blamed the mass shooting in Orlando on Sunday on radical Islam.

They were almost as unsparing as the Democrats in their criticism of his boundary-pushing response Monday to the killing of 49 patrons at a gay club in Orlando, Florida, by an American-born Muslim who pledged loyalty to the Islamic State group.

She also proposed stricter gun control laws, reiterating previous calls to prohibit people on terrorism watch lists from buying firearms.

Clinton asked: “Is Donald Trump suggesting that there are magic words that once uttered will stop terrorists from coming after us?” “That’s just plain unsafe, and it plays into ISIS’ hands”, she said on NBC Monday morning, using an acronym to refer to the Islamic State.

“We and our allies must work hand in hand to dismantle the networks that move money and propaganda and arms and fighters across the world”, Clinton said. “There have been a lot of meetings over the past 48 hours about what color plate do we deliver Debbie Wasserman Schultz’s head on”, said one pro-Clinton Democratic senator told The Hill at the time.

Trump, being Trump, made it about him.

“If you had some guns in that club the night that this took place. you wouldn’t have had the tragedy that you had”, Trump said on CNN Monday morning. “And I think the smarter way to go in all respects is to have a security test and not a religious test”. He said the issue is “radical Islam”, not the Islamic faith.

Reports say he pledged allegiance to ISIS in a phone call to 911 before killing 49 people and injuring 53 others at Pulse, an Orlando nightclub popular with the gay community. I called it and asked for the ban.

The reactions underscored an atmosphere of anxiety and unease among Republicans on Capitol Hill, who hoped to see Trump moderate his impulses in the weeks since clinching the nomination.

That’s the word from a senior Republican aide.

The aide spoken on condition of anonymity to freely discuss the schedule.

The comment did not mean Trump was saying Obama had some sort of sympathy for, or connection to radical Islamic terrorist groups, Scott said. “We need a new leader fast”, Trump said at Saint Anselm College in New Hampshire on Monday. He also claimed Clinton is “afraid to mention it because her boss will be angry at her”.

Post editor Martin Baron said Monday that Trump’s decision “is nothing less than a repudiation of the role of a free and independent press”.

The mass shooting at an Orlando nightclub Sunday is fueling political rhetoric in the campaign for U.S. President, with presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump doubling down on a ban of certain immigrants, while drawing fire from Democrats.

The presumptive Republican nominee is vowing to suspend immigration from countries with a history of terrorism and the Democratic candidate warns against demonizing Muslims.

Clinton struck a very different tone in a speech on Monday, urging “statesmanship, not partisanship” and “clear, rational discussion” on how to protect the United States from terrorist threats.

Following the attack, Trump repeated his call for a temporary ban on Muslims entering the United States, despite the fact that the shooter, a USA citizen, was born in NY. Clinton’s vision builds on President Barack Obama’s campaign against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria and expands on his gun control executive orders, while Trump is calling for a drastically different national security posture.