Trump, Clinton Respond to New York City Explosion

“I must tell you that just before I got off the plane a bomb went off in NY and nobody knows what’s going on”, Trump said, minutes after stepping off his plane during a rally at an airport hangar in Colorado Springs, Colorado. “Because if he looks like he comes from that part of the world, we’re not allowed to profile. For the kind of preventive actions that we need to take at home, and to intensify our efforts to fight ISIS”.

“I think there is – I think there’s many foreign connections”, he said. “Things are moving very quickly”.

A similar, unexploded device to the one that went off in Chelsea on Saturday was found a few blocks away later that night.

And Cuomo said 1,000 additional New York State Police officers and National Guard troops will be deployed to patrol bus terminals, airports and subway stations. FBI Director James Comey said in July that ISIS terrorists may be dispersed in the West as the terror group loses territory in Iraq and Syria. “We’re going to have to be very tough”. “My operating premise is anytime, anywhere, seven days a week you could have an incident like this”. Somehow Mr. Trump found a way to mutate this weekend’s terror attack in New York City into another notch on his portly political belt. That was less than an hour after the explosion and before authorities had publicly said so. Over the weekend, law enforcement officials discovered and diffused several bombs placed around the city.

The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk about the ongoing investigation.

“That’s what worries us: Was this some kind of test run, not just of the devices, but also of the surveillance in NY and the response?” the official said.

A deafening roar and powerful shock rocked Manhattan’s popular Chelsea neighborhood late on Saturday after a pressure-cooker bomb packed with shrapnel exploded.

“Law enforcement officials are working to identify who was behind the attacks in NY and New Jersey, and we should give them the support they need to finish the job and bring those responsible to justice”, Clinton said, adding: “We will not rest until that happens”. No official has suggested ties between the mall attack and the explosions in New Jersey and NY.

Police did not immediately identify the Minnesota attacker, citing an ongoing investigation, although some local media reports gave his name and said he was an African-born junior college student. The race was canceled and no one was injured.

There’s no evidence connecting Saturday’s bombings in New York City and New Jersey to Islamic terrorism, and the incidents also have not been linked to a stabbing rampage at a Minnesota mall the same day that left eight people wounded, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie said Sunday, echoing other officials who say the violence doesn’t appear to be coordinated terrorist attacks. The St. Cloud police chief said the man reportedly made at least one reference to Allah and asked a victim if he or she was Muslim before attacking. No one was killed, but ISIS was quick to take responsibility for the attack, calling the perpetrator a “soldier of the Islamic State”, and threatening further incidents.