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Donald Trump Assails Hillary Clinton on Antiterrorism After Orlando Shooting Hillary Clinton, Responding to Orlando Massacre, Says Americans’ Fury Must Give Way to Resolve
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Donald J. Trump and Hillary Clinton set their sights on each other Monday, just a day after the massacre in Orlando, Fla., with Mr. Trump suggesting that his opponent was too weak to keep the country safe. Mrs. Clinton warned that Mr. Trump’s demonization of Muslims was inciting terrorists. Hillary Clinton called on Monday for vigilance in the fight against homegrown terrorists inspired by the Islamic State and said the response to the massacre in Orlando required “clear eyes, steady hands, and unwary determination and pride in our country and our values.”
The clash comes as national security takes center stage in the campaign after the worst attack on American soil since Sept. 11, 2001. The latest incident occurred Sunday morning at a gay nightclub in Orlando, where a Muslim man claiming allegiance to the Islamic State shot and killed 49 people and wounded 53. “The murder of innocent people breaks our hearts, tears at our sense of security and makes us furious,” said Mrs. Clinton, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee. “Now we have to steel our resolve to respond.”
Mr. Trump responded with fury on Monday, calling for increased bombing of Islamic State terrorists, accusing American Muslims of looking the other way as attacks unfolded and warning that Mrs. Clinton did not comprehend the nature of the threat. In her first remarks since the Sunday morning shooting, in which an American citizen who declared his allegiance to the Islamic State killed 49 people and wounded 53, Mrs. Clinton, speaking in Cleveland, called for bolstering coalition-led airstrikes against ISIS in Syria.
He also condemned Mrs. Clinton for failing to use the phrase “radical Islamic terrorism.” They were the first remarks by Mr. Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, since the massacre on Sunday in Orlando. She also introduced a plan to work with the public and private sectors to identify and root out terrorist “lone wolves” in the United States and Europe who become radicalized without traveling overseas, often through online recruitment.
Mrs. Clinton, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, initially offered a measured response and a call for unity before warning that Mr. Trump’s policies were part of the problem. She also said that the threat of terrorism was not a matter of language and that she had no problem using the term “radical Islamism” in an interview on CNN. “Orlando makes it even more clear,” she said. “We cannot contain this threat. We must defeat it.”
Mr. Trump, assailed President Obama as well, accusing both him, and Mrs. Clinton, of failing to understand the nature of the terrorist threat facing the country. Mr. Trump also appeared to suggest that Mr. Obama might be complicit in such attacks. “We’re led by a man that either is not tough, not smart, or he’s got something else in mind,” Mr. Trump said. “There is something going on.” Though it was the worst attack on American soil since Sept. 11, 2001, the Orlando massacre fell into no single category, and Mrs. Clinton also called for a ban on assault weapons like the AR-15 used in Orlando and at the Sandy Hook school shooting in 2012. And she expressed her support for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people.
“The terrorist in Orlando targeted L.G.B.T. Americans out of hatred and bigotry, and an attack on any American is an attack on all Americans,” she said, before directly appealing to gays, lesbians, bisexuals and transgender voters: “You have millions of allies who will always have your back,” she said. “And I am one of them.”
Mrs. Clinton, who had already canceled a planned fund-raiser in Cincinnati and postponed her first joint campaign appearance with President Obama, told her audience that it was “not a day for politics,” but then, without uttering his name, leveled a stern rebuke at her presumptive Republican opponent, Donald J. Trump.
She invoked the bipartisanship that characterized the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, when she was a senator from New York. “America is strongest when we all believe we have a stake in our country and our future,” she said.
“We are not a land of winners and losers,” Mrs. Clinton added. “This has always been a country of ‘we,’ not ‘me.’ We stand together because we are stronger together — e pluribus unum, out of many one.”
Alluding to Mr. Trump’s call for monitoring American-born Muslims and mosques and to his proposal to ban Muslims temporarily from entering the United States, Mrs. Clinton said such actions would harm “the vast majority of Muslims who love freedom and hate terror.”
She suggested Mr. Trump’s approach “plays right into the terrorists’ hands,” and alienates Muslim sympathizers in the process, pointing out that “hate crimes against Muslims and mosques have tripled.”
Mr. Trump delivered his own speech Monday afternoon in New Hampshire.
Hours earlier on Monday, the two traded attacks in morning television interviews, with Mr. Trump suggesting that Mrs. Clinton was too weak to keep the country safe while she warned that his demonization of Muslims was inciting terrorists.
Mr. Trump called for increased bombing of the Islamic State, accused American Muslims of looking the other way as attacks unfolded and warned that Mrs. Clinton did not comprehend the nature of the threat. He also condemned her for avoiding the phrase “radical Islamic terrorism.”
Mrs. Clinton accused Mr. Trump of declaring “war on an entire religion,” saying that his proposals and statements were so divisive and inflammatory as to damage the nation’s fight against terrorism. She also said that the threat of terrorism was not a matter of language and that she had no problem using the term “radical Islamism” in an interview on CNN.
She also warned that the Orlando bloodbath should not be politicized.
“This is a moment for Republicans, Democrats and independents to work together as one team — the American team,” Mrs. Clinton said on MSNBC. “And it’s a time for statesmanship, not partisanship.”
Mr. Trump, assailed Mr. Obama as well, accusing both him, and Mrs. Clinton, of failing to understand the nature of the terrorist threat facing the country. Mr. Trump also appeared to suggest that Mr. Obama might be complicit in such attacks. “We’re led by a man that either is not tough, not smart, or he’s got something else in mind,” Mr. Trump said. “There is something going on.”
Mr. Trump also accused the president of coddling terrorists overseas and being overly concerned with collateral damage.Mr. Trump also accused the president of coddling terrorists overseas and being overly concerned with collateral damage.
“Can you imagine General Patton saying ‘Please get out of your trucks because we’re going to start dropping bombs in one hour?’” said Mr. Trump. “This is the way we fight. We’re led by a fool.”“Can you imagine General Patton saying ‘Please get out of your trucks because we’re going to start dropping bombs in one hour?’” said Mr. Trump. “This is the way we fight. We’re led by a fool.”
The remarks come ahead of what Mr. Trump has billed as a major speech on terrorism that he will deliver in New Hampshire on Monday afternoon. Previewing the speech, he said that his national security plans would include the country becoming tougher and smarter. Previewing his own Monday speech, Mr. Trump warned that “We have to be very strong in terms of looking at the mosques.”
Mrs. Clinton will speak in Cleveland on Monday afternoon. He said that “thousands of people already in our country are sick with hate,” asserted that American Muslims knew who the terrorists were in their own communities and needed to turn them in.
“We have to be extremely strong,” Mr. Trump said. “We have to be very strong in terms of looking at the mosques.”
He added, “thousands of people already in our country are sick with hate” and said Muslims in their communities knew who the terrorists were and needed to turn them in.
Polls show that many Americans appreciate Mr. Trump’s tough talk about terrorism. The Manhattan businessman appeared eager to change the political conversation after two weeks of controversy over his statements about a Mexican-American federal judge. He said that Mrs. Clinton, the former secretary of state, was not fit to steer the country through such crises.Polls show that many Americans appreciate Mr. Trump’s tough talk about terrorism. The Manhattan businessman appeared eager to change the political conversation after two weeks of controversy over his statements about a Mexican-American federal judge. He said that Mrs. Clinton, the former secretary of state, was not fit to steer the country through such crises.
“She’s weak on so many different levels,” Mr. Trump said. “These are times when you need solid, you need smart.”“She’s weak on so many different levels,” Mr. Trump said. “These are times when you need solid, you need smart.”
Mrs. Clinton said on Monday that the tragedy in Orlando should not be politicized.
“This is a moment for Republicans, Democrats and independents to work together as one team — the American team,” Mrs. Clinton said on MSNBC. “And it’s a time for statesmanship, not partisanship.”