Fiery Trump, sober Clinton at odds over Orlando attack
Democrat 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 Republican Trump is calling for a drastically different national security posture.
Donald Trump says his plan to confront the terror syndicate is to throw out that strategy because it failed.
The list of tragedies on President Obama’s watch seems countless by now.
Trump heaped criticism on his rival.
In Manchester, Trump said that, if elected, he would use executive authority to better control immigration, emphasizing one of the main themes of his campaign for the November 8 general election. But the whole point is that 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.
“We can not contain this threat”.
“We need to look carefully at this”, she said. “We did not attack each other, we worked with each other to protect our country and rebuild our city”, Clinton said. We saw this in Paris.
“Our job is not to allow politicians, Mr. Trump or anyone else, to divide us up by where our family came from, the color of our skin, our religion or our sexual orientation”, Sanders said.
Clinton also called out American allies for allowing their citizens to sponsors terrorism by telling “the Saudis, the Qataris and the Kuwaitis and others” that it was “long past time” that they stop “their citizens from funding extremist organizations”.
“Well, there are a lot of people that think maybe he doesn’t want to get it”, Trump said.
At his Monday national security address, Donald Trump called for a common- sense, “mainstream immigration policy that promotes American values”, and denounced Hillary Clinton’s “radical immigration policy” that only benefits special interests.
Clinton highlighted the need for vigilance when it came to homegrown terrorists inspired by the Islamic State, who “radicalize individuals and encourage attacks againt the United States even if they are not coordinated with ISIS leadership”.
You are helping ISIS recruit terrorists.
Clinton’s campaign website promises to confront the Islamic State “in a way that builds greater stability across the region, without miring our troops in another misguided ground war”. However, she’s really been forced, and she has been forced to say these words.
Clinton had earlier in the cycle defended her refusal to use the term, telling ABC’s This Week that the phrase “doesn’t do justice to the vast number of Muslims in our country and around the world who are peaceful people”. “His Muslim ban that he’s talking about has no effect here – this gentlemen was a United States citizen born in the United States of America”.
It is still not clear whether the wording he used Monday would apply to those who are natives of or were traveling through predominantly Muslim countries. President Obama floated that idea in the wake of December’s shooting in San Bernardino, Calif., but the proposal failed to pass.
Although Clinton and many Republicans reacted with revulsion, the ban has remained a central Trump tenet and a reason many supporters cite for backing him. “Must be tough”, he tweeted Sunday. “Immigration is a privilege, and we should not let anyone into our country if they don’t support our communities – all of our communities”. “America is strongest when we all believe we have a stake in our country and our future”, she said.
The Republican inaccurately stated that “hundreds of thousands” of Muslim immigrants are entering the United States without screening.
Without acknowledging that the Orlando shooter, Omar Mateen, was born in NY, the candidate demanded that Obama “release the full and complete immigration histories of all individuals implicated in terrorist activity of any kind since 9/11”.
Mateen was a U.S.-born son of Afghan immigrants.
Trump has urged Muslims in the United States to be more vigilant about reporting suspicious activity.
Specifically in regard to the gay community in Orlando and beyond, Hillary had these remarks: “The terrorist in Orlando targeted LGBT Americans out of hatred and bigotry, and an attack on any American is an attack on all Americans…You have millions of allies who will always have your back”. “They know what’s going on”.