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Hillary Clinton, Responding to Orlando Massacre, Says Americans’ Fury Must Give Way to Resolve Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton Trade Attacks on Fighting Terrorism After Orlando Massacre
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Catch up on what you missed from speeches by Donald J. Trump andHillary Clinton on Monday. 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.
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.” 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 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.” 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.
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. 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.
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. “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.
Mr. Trump accused Mrs. Clinton of wanting to allow into the country “radical Muslims” who enslave women and slaughter gay people. He said that despite Mrs. Clinton’s claims to be friendlier to the L.G.B.T. community, he was the one making their safety a priority.
He also decried Mrs. Clinton’s call for restrictions on guns, arguing that her policies would render the vulnerable defenseless.
“She wants to take away Americans’ guns and then admit the very people who want to slaughter us,” Mr. Trump said. “Let them come in, let them have all the fun they want.”
Mr. Trump had planned to deliver a detailed critique of Mrs. Clinton’s character on Monday, then shifted gears after the Sunday attack. But he did not hold back from assailing Mrs. Clinton, deriding her performance as secretary of state and casting her as inept.
Promising to be the country’s protector-in-chief as president, Mr. Trump insisted that the direction of the country would be different under his leadership.
“If I get in there it is going to change and it is going to change quickly,” Mr. Trump said. “We are going from totally incompetent to just the opposite, believe me.”
Mr. Trump’s speech came shortly after Mrs. Clinton, in Cleveland, called for vigilance in the fight against homegrown terrorists inspired by the Islamic State and said the response to the Orlando massacre required “clear eyes, steady hands, and unwary determination and pride in our country and our values.”
“The murder of innocent people breaks our hearts, tears at our sense of security and makes us furious,” she said. “Now we have to steel our resolve to respond.”
Mrs. Clinton called for bolstering coalition airstrikes against ISIS in Syria and said she would 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.
“Orlando makes it even more clear,” she said. “We cannot contain this threat. We must defeat it.”“Orlando makes it even more clear,” she said. “We cannot contain this threat. We must defeat it.”
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. She also faulted some United States allies, saying it was “long past time” for Saudi Arabia, Qatar and other Muslim countries “to stop their citizens from funding extremist organizations,” and to “stop supporting radical schools and mosques around the world that have set too many young people on a path to extremism.”
Though it was the worst attack on American soil since Sept. 11, 2001, the Orlando massacre fell into no single category. Mrs. Clinton 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.”“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.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.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.” Before the Orlando shooting, Mrs. Clinton had planned to deliver a major address previewing her campaign’s general election theme, built around the slogan “Stronger Together.” After learning of the massacre at her home in Chappaqua, N.Y., on Sunday, Mrs. Clinton huddled with advisers, called Orlando’s mayor, Buddy Dyer, and overhauled her remarks. But the theme was still threaded into her critique of Mr. Trump.
“We are not a land of winners and losers,” she said. “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.”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.”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.
“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.”
Previewing his own Monday speech, Mr. Trump warned that “We have to be very strong in terms of looking at the mosques.”
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.
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.”