‘Not the America we want’: Obama blasts Trump’s Muslim plans

The Orlando mass shooting is the latest in a series of deadly attacks, which presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has attempted to exploit for political gain.

Mr. Trump suggests he is a better friend to the gay community than Mrs. Clinton because his proposed ban on Muslim immigrants would block antigay Islamic extremists.

During his Tuesday event in North Carolina, Trump challenged Obama’s point of view by reiterating his belief that Muslims pose a threat to America.

Hillary Clinton wants to dramatically increase admissions from the Middle East, bringing in many hundreds of thousands during a first term – and we will have no way to screen them, pay for them, or prevent the second generation from radicalizing.

That’s politics. “Predictably, politicians with Islamophobic leanings are seeing the Orlando shootings and the deeper malaise it represents, as an opportunity to further advance a divisive and inflammatory rhetoric that does nothing to make us safer”, said Musaddique Thange, California-based communications director of the Indian American Muslim Council.

Barron’s campaign on Trump’s behalf will be an uphill battle, as polling shows that most LGBT voters remain skeptical of Republicans, whose officials party platform opposes same-sex marriage. “My problems with President Obama are his policy choices”.

Remarkably, in less than a week after formally joining the campaign as Clinton’s Surrogate-in-Chief, Obama is already put off kilter by Trump.

Yet for Brian LeClair, chair of the Trump for President organization in Minnesota’s Fourth Congressional District, Trump’s words were on target.

It is no exaggeration to say that implementation of Trump’s platform is exactly the Islamic State’s hope: to present Muslims with a binary choice between itself and an irreconcilably hostile West. In May, Boteach published a column on The Times of Israel website calling Trump “the right candidate for the Presidency over Hillary”. “If two people dig each other, they dig each other”.

But in the hours following a horrific tragedy – whatever the cause, whoever the perpetrator – there is no place for reminding people who was right, for saying “I called it”, for talking about who predicted it. Yes, as Trump’s supporters on Twitter have pointed out, Trump did say he doesn’t “want congrats” or doesn’t “want the credit”. To get a full sense of just how unmoored Trump is, let’s just cast our minds back to September 2001, when George W. Bush was called upon to govern in the aftermath of the worst terrorist attack on American soil in history. “They have been through something that nobody could ever experience”.

Trump noted that Mateen’s parents were born in Afghanistan. The sheiks who’ve survived the Islamic State today are reluctant to join the fight against them because they see the Shiite militias leading the Iraqi campaign against the Islamic State as a greater threat. The data from the Government Accountability Office shows between 2004 and 2015 almost 2,500 people on the watch list applied to purchase weapons; almost 2,300 of them were approved.

Obama and Trump feuded on Tuesday, with the president lacing the GOP candidate for suggesting he was sympathetic to terrorism, while Trump doubled-down on his criticism.

Clinton tore into Trump’s history as a leader of the birther movement, which alleged Obama was not born in America – which he was.

A representative for House Speaker Paul Ryan did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Business Insider.

Such comments had helped him gain traction in the Republican primary race. “But if we’ve learned nothing else over the a year ago, Trump will always be Trump”.

Clinton on Wednesday said Trump has been “fixated” on the phrase radical Islam “as if those are magic words that, once uttered, will stop terrorists from coming after us”.

“Frankly, there were issues where I disagreed with Donald Trump and still do”.

The Obama administration, though, has only accelerated the pace of Syrian refugee admissions in recent weeks – which is a program Trump and other Republicans have warned could pose a security risk.