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Donald Trump & Hillary Clinton Trade On Fighting Terrorism After Orlando Attack by Joel3(m): 11:00pm On Jun 13, 2016
By AMY CHOZICK and ALAN RAPPEPORT
JUNE 13, 2016

Donald J. Trump said on Monday that the massacre in Orlando justified his call for a ban on Muslim immigration and warned that if Hillary Clinton were elected president, thousands of potential Islamic terrorists would flood into the country with the intention of slaughtering innocent Americans.

Mrs. Clinton, meanwhile, warned that Mr. Trump’s anti-Muslim stances were damaging efforts to defeat terrorism and vowed to step up airstrikes against the Islamic State while working with the private sector to root out so-called lone wolf terrorists who are often recruited or inspired online.

The two candidates issued their critiques of one another a day after an American citizen born to Afghan immigrants, declaring his allegiance to ISIS, killed 49 people and wounded 53 at a gay nightclub in Orlando.

Mr. Trump vowed to give the authorities more tools to clamp down on terrorists and that, if elected, he would use his executive powers to keep foreign Muslims from entering the country for an indefinite period of time.

“They have put political correctness above common sense, above your safety and above all else,” Mr. Trump said Monday afternoon at Saint Anselm College in Goffstown, N.H. “I refuse to be politically correct.”

Indeed, Mr. Trump appeared to broaden his call for a ban on Muslim immigration, extending it to whole regions rather than applying it strictly according to religion. He said he would “suspend immigration from areas of the world where there is a proven history of terrorism against the United States, Europe or our allies, until we understand how to end these threats.”

And Mr. Trump said that he wanted to work with American Muslims to fight terrorism, but continued to insinuate that they were looking the other way as terror plots unfold and called on them to reveal what they know.

“Muslim communities must cooperate with law enforcement and turn in the people who they know are bad – and they do know where they are,” Mr. Trump said.

Although his proposals were not new, his forceful call for such provocative ideas demonstrated that he does not intend to temper his tone for a general election audience.

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Re: Donald Trump & Hillary Clinton Trade On Fighting Terrorism After Orlando Attack by zeezu22(m): 11:11pm On Jun 13, 2016
GOD Punish your family TRUMP!not for ur statement tonight but for using nigeria as an example.You wil never run people like americans
Re: Donald Trump & Hillary Clinton Trade On Fighting Terrorism After Orlando Attack by Joel3(m): 11:14pm On Jun 13, 2016
MANCHESTER, N.H. — Donald Trump on Monday defended his response to the deadly nightclub shooting in Orlando, Fla., insisting in television interviews that the attack proves he was “right” in calling for a ban on Muslim immigrants, who, he claims, are entering the country to plot terrorist attacks.

But pressed on how his proposed ban would have stopped Sunday’s massacre, which authorities say was perpetrated by an American-born citizen, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee simply doubled down on the policy, suggesting immigrants are entering the country and corrupting people who are already here.

The issue arose at a critical moment in Trump’s campaign, as he was preparing to answer Hillary Clinton’s attack 10 days ago on his temperament and grasp of foreign policy issues. In recent weeks, he has downplayed the call for a ban on Muslim immigration, which was a cornerstone of his campaign during the primary, all but dropping it from his stump speeches.

But the shooting seems to have reenergized the issue for him, and also his insinuations that President Obama identifies with radicalized Muslims who have carried out terrorist attacks like the Orlando shooting.

“Look, we’re led by a man that either is not tough, not smart, or he’s got something else in mind,” Trump told Fox News. “And the something else in mind — you know, people can’t believe it. People cannot, they cannot believe that President Obama is acting the way he acts and can’t even mention the words ‘radical Islamic terrorism.’ There’s something going on. It’s inconceivable. There’s something going on.”

“He doesn’t get it, or he gets it better than anybody understands. It’s one or the other, and either one is unacceptable,” Trump added.
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Re: Donald Trump & Hillary Clinton Trade On Fighting Terrorism After Orlando Attack by Joel3(m): 11:18pm On Jun 13, 2016
Hillary Clinton obliquely criticized her rival Donald Trump’s worldview in a speech Monday afternoon addressing the recent terrorist attack in Orlando.
The former secretary of state said divisive rhetoric targeting Muslims makes law enforcement’s job harder and alienates contacts in the Muslim-American community who can play a critical role in preventing future attacks.
“Inflammatory anti-Muslim rhetoric threatening to ban the families and friends of Muslim-Americans… hurts the vast majority of Muslims who love freedom and hate terrorism,” she said in the address in Cleveland.
Clinton said hate crimes against Muslims and mosques tripled after the terrorist attacks in Paris and San Bernardino, Calif., at the end of last year.
“That’s wrong, and it’s also dangerous. It plays right into the terrorists’ hands,” the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee said.
Clinton recast her speech to focus on terrorism after last weekend’s attack against a gay-themed nightclub in Orlando. She told the crowd “Today is not a day for politics,” and emphasized her own planned response to ISIS, the so-called Islamic State, her belief that assault weapons like the AR-15 the attacker used “have no place on our streets” and her plan to stop lone-wolf attacks if she’s elected president.
But without naming her Republican opponent, Clinton nevertheless rebuked Trump’s response to the attack thus far. Trump reiterated his call for a temporary ban on Muslim travel to the United States and criticized Clinton and President Obama for not referring to the shooting as an act of “radical Islamic terrorism.” He called for Obama’s resignation and for Clinton to leave the presidential race because of this omission, although, on Monday morning, she acknowledged that “radical Islamism” was one way of describing the Orlando gunman’s ideology.
“This has always been a country of we, not me,” Clinton said in her Cleveland speech, calling for unity in response to the mass shooting. She also said, “We are not a land of winners and losers,” calling on Americans to lift each other up.
In her speech, Clinton described the threat ISIS poses to the United States as dire, and referred to ISIS as “radical jihadists” who distort Islam to justify killing innocent people. She also said that the United States should “keep the pressure on ramping up the air campaign” against ISIS.
“The Orlando terrorist may be dead, but the virus that poisoned his mind remains very much alive,” she said. “We know already the barbarity that we face from radical jihadists is profound.”
Clinton also told the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community that she and millions of Americans stood with them. “The terrorist in Orlando targeted LGBT Americans out of hatred and bigotry, and an attack on any American is an attack on all Americans,” she said.
After her speech, Trump gave a national security address again calling for a ban on immigration from countries that have “a proven history of terrorism against the United States.” Trump incorrectly said the Orlando shooter was Afghan (he was American, born to Afghan parents) and suggested that curtailing immigration would prevent future attacks. Trump also said “Muslim communities” must cooperate with law enforcement.
Re: Donald Trump & Hillary Clinton Trade On Fighting Terrorism After Orlando Attack by mbaka0433: 11:21pm On Jun 13, 2016
Make una Ban any messege from Trump abeg ooooooooooooooo..........but the man get Small sense for this em Talk oooooo
Mushlems and Terrorism dey like Bread and butter
Op do the needful abeg
Re: Donald Trump & Hillary Clinton Trade On Fighting Terrorism After Orlando Attack by mike404(m): 12:29am On Jun 14, 2016
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Re: Donald Trump & Hillary Clinton Trade On Fighting Terrorism After Orlando Attack by Nobody: 12:39am On Jun 14, 2016
Omar Mateen just handed the keys to the White House to Donald Trump.
Re: Donald Trump & Hillary Clinton Trade On Fighting Terrorism After Orlando Attack by gozmok1(m): 4:36am On Jun 14, 2016
Imagine a world without islam chai
Re: Donald Trump & Hillary Clinton Trade On Fighting Terrorism After Orlando Attack by Lucasbalo(m): 6:14am On Jun 14, 2016
bejeiodus:
Omar Mateen just handed the keys to the White House to Donald Trump.
Says who ?.
Re: Donald Trump & Hillary Clinton Trade On Fighting Terrorism After Orlando Attack by ValerianSteel(m): 11:54am On Jun 14, 2016
bejeiodus:
Omar Mateen just handed the keys to the White House to Donald Trump.
Probably that's how politics is done in Nigeria but in the United States,we don't give into fear of terror and violence in electing our leaders.No Trump won't get to the White House.

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