President Obama explains why he doesn’t use the words ‘radical Islam’

In what is believed to be the highest-ranking defection from the GOP so far, former Bush and Reagan-appointee Richard Armitage says he will vote for Democrat Hillary Clinton over Republican Donald Trump, Politico reports.

The Florida attack, in which a gunman killed 49 people at a gay nightclub and wounded 53, could have a lingering impact on the presidential race, mixing concerns about immigration, gun violence and religious tolerance into what has already been a volatile and decidedly negative campaign season.

Before letting loose on his Republican critics, Obama again laid out his strategy to defeat Isis, insisting that while the campaign was hard, progress had been made, notably in Iraq. “Countries that contribute to her foundation and she should give all the money back to all these countries”.

Following the deadliest mass shooting in US history, 51 percent of those surveyed in a new CBS News poll released Wednesday do not like the way the Republican presidential front-runner has been responding to the attack.

Trump was previously a lukewarm supporter of LGBT issues, but has changed his stance repeatedly during the campaign in a bid to appeal to the broad Republican base.

Obama went on to warn of a slippery slope in this debate, citing Trump’s call for a temporary ban on Muslim immigration – a proposal many in Trump’s party do not support, including House Speaker Paul Ryan. She said the United States counts on Muslim communities in the USA and partners in majority-Muslim countries to help fight terrorism.

However, Trump stood his ground. Are we going to start discriminating against them due to their faith?

“You gotta get over there and start making them pay where they live”, he said. As investigators continue to try to determine a motive behind Orlando, Trump says it points to just one thing.

“Yesterday morning, just one day after the massacre, he went on TV and suggested President Obama is on the side of the terrorists”, Clinton said.

“That terrorist in Orlando was not born in Afghanistan as Trump claims”, Clinton said.

“Well, I’m going to be looking at it very, very seriously – the terror watch list and the no-fly list”, Trump said Wednesday on Fox News’s “On the Record”.

Several of Trump’s fellow Republicans clearly did not agree with him.

The congressman, who has not endorsed Trump, said that while it’s fair to criticize aspects of Obama’s approach to combatting terrorism, “I part company with those then who want to get into these conspiracy theories”.

Obama also addressed Trump’s criticism of the president for not using the term “radical Islam” to refer to terrorist acts.