Clinton, Trump at Odds Over Tackling Terrorism, Guns

Barack Obama called Sunday’s shootings an ‘act of terror, ‘ but Donald Trump ripped the US president for not coming to terms with what he sees as a growing problem linked to radical Islam.

The presumptive Republican nominee for the White House, Donald Trump, said Monday that he is extending his proposed ban on Muslims entering the United States until there is a “perfect” screening system in place.

His assertion of power was one of several striking moments in the speech, which Trump read sometimes unsteadily from a teleprompter, occasionally ad-libbing interjections.

Ironically, in embracing the demand for the particular phrase – “radical Islamic terrorism” – Trump is borrowing a page from the playbook of one of his fallen competitors for the Republican presidential nomination, Sen.

Here’s what we absolutely can not do: We can not demonize Muslim people.

“A lot of people think maybe he doesn’t want to know about it. I happen to think that he just doesn’t know what he’s doing”, he said. They have to cooperate with law enforcement. “They are in the best position to help us block it. We should be intensifying contacts in those communities, not scapegoating or isolating them”.

If people know what’s going on and they don’t tell us… these people have to have consequences.

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.

“Our nation stands together in solidarity with the members of Orlando’s LGBT Community”, he said.

How we choose to respond to events like Orlando, Clinton argued, raises “a larger point about the future of our country”, emphasizing American unity and equality.

He promised to be stronger on both LGBT issues and women’s issues that Hillary Clinton, contrasting his “actions” with Clinton’s “words”.

Trump accused Muslims in the United States of not reporting terrorists in their midst.

Going further, Trump said he would also “suspend immigration from areas of the world where there’s a proven history of terrorism against the United States, Europe and our allies”.

Our nation has many problems.

Already on Sunday the billionaire asked on Twitter “when will we get tough, smart & vigilant”, said he appreciated “the congrats for being right on Islamic terrorism” and called the Orlando attack “just the beginning”.

“The killer was born an Afghan, of Afghan parents who immigrated to the United States”, the Republican nominee said of Orlando shooter Omar Mateen, who was born in the United States – and thus only “an Afghan” in the sense that federal Judge Gonzalo Curiel is a Mexican. A Washington Post/ABC News poll in May showed 47percent of voters said Clinton would do more to make the country safer and more secure than Trump, at 44 percent. On Friday, he told a conservative Christian group he would defend Israel and protect American Christians.

But she also stressed against “inflammatory anti-Muslim rhetoric”, saying that a total ban on Muslims entering the country “hurts the vast majority of Muslims who love freedom and hate terror”.

Obama, in remarks earlier Monday, acknowledged the threat from Americans who are radicalized over the Internet.

“It is time to get back to the spirit of those days”, Clinton said. Obama also put heavy blame on easy access to firearms. But Trump’s claim that Marteen was an immigrant fit neatly into a speech which included numerous calls to restrict immigration and statements that our immigration policy was at fault. “He says he thinks Trump is suggesting that President Obama, because of his quote” leftist politics or sympathy to Islam in general” is reluctant to identify the radical strain of Islam as the cause of this horror. But it’s very, very, it’s a very sad situation when we have the kind of a tragedy that we had and we have a president that gave a press conference and talks about gun control. “We have to address these issues”. This was not a speech that did so.