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Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton Trade Attacks on Fighting Terrorism After Orlando Massacre Blaming Muslims After Attack, Donald Trump Tosses Pluralism Aside
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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. Donald J. Trump left little doubt on Monday that he intends to run on the same incendiary proposals on immigration and terrorism that animated his primary campaign, using his first speech after the massacre in Orlando, Fla., to propose sweeping measures against Muslims that paid little heed to American traditions of pluralism.
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. Without distinguishing between mainstream Muslims and Islamist terrorists, Mr. Trump suggested that all Muslim immigrants posed potential threats to America’s security and called for a ban on migrants from any part of the world with “a proven history of terrorism” against the United States or its allies. He also insinuated that American Muslims were all but complicit in acts of domestic terrorism for failing to report attacks in advance, asserting without evidence that they had warnings of shootings like the one in Orlando.
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’s speech, delivered at St. Anselm College in Manchester, N.H., represented an extraordinary break from the longstanding rhetorical norms of American presidential nominees. But if his language more closely resembled a European nationalist’s than a mainstream Republican’s, he was wagering that voters are stirred more by their fears of Islamic terrorism than any concerns they may have about his flouting traditions of tolerance and respect for religious diversity.
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. Mr. Trump, who drew criticism last fall, including a sharp rebuke from House Speaker Paul D. Ryan, for first suggesting a constitutionally questionable ban on Muslim immigration, on Monday described Islamic extremism as a pervasive global menace that was penetrating the United States through unchecked immigration.
“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.” Citing the Boston Marathon bombing in 2013 by two men with ties to Chechnya and instances of radicalization in Minnesota’s Somali immigrant community, Mr. Trump painted a bleak portrait of the country as under siege from within and abroad.
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.” “They’re trying to take over our children and convince them how wonderful ISIS is and how wonderful Islam is,” Mr. Trump said, referring to the Islamic State, also known as ISIL. “And we don’t know what’s happening.”
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. He accused American Muslims of failing to “turn in the people who they know are bad,” effectively blaming other Muslims for the shooting in Orlando and the attack last year in San Bernardino, Calif., that was carried out by a married couple inspired by the Islamic State.
“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. “They didn’t turn them in,” Mr. Trump said, “and we had death and destruction.”
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 carefully read his remarks from a teleprompter and offered more detail than his stump speeches generally contain, but his speech was still rife with the sort of misstatements and exaggerations that have typified his campaign.
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 repeatedly stretched the facts, for example, in describing the United States as overrun by dangerous migrants. He claimed the country has an “immigration system which does not permit us to know who we let into our country,” brushing aside the entire customs and immigration enforcement infrastructure. And he asserted that there was a “tremendous flow” of Syrian refugees, when just 2,805 of them were admitted into the country from October to May, fewer than one-third of the 10,000 Syrians President Obama said the United States would accept this fiscal year.
He also decried Mrs. Clinton’s call for restrictions on guns, arguing that her policies would render the vulnerable defenseless. Mr. Trump described the gunman in the Orlando shooting as “an Afghan,” though he was born an American citizen in New York City to parents who had emigrated from Afghanistan to the United States over three decades ago.
“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 assailed the presumptive Democratic nominee, Hillary Clinton, by name, accusing her of favoring immigration policies that would invite a flood of potential jihadists to the United States, which he warned could be “a better, bigger, more horrible version than the legendary Trojan Horse ever was.”
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. Mrs. Clinton, speaking in Cleveland earlier in the day, argued that engaging in “inflammatory, anti-Muslim rhetoric” made the country less safe. Delivering the sort of conventional speech that most presidential contenders would offer in the wake of tragedy, she did not mention Mr. Trump by name. But, while saying the “murder of innocent people breaks our hearts, tears at our sense of security and makes us furious,” she described proposals to ban Muslim immigration as offensive and counterproductive.
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. “America is strongest when we all believe we have a stake in our country and our future,” she said, calling to mind the bipartisan spirit that took hold after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, when she was a senator from New York.
“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.” Mrs. Clinton has sought to present herself as the default choice of mainstream voters, including Republicans disturbed by Mr. Trump, and on Monday she stressed the importance of building relationships between law enforcement agencies and American Muslims.
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 unwavering determination and pride in our country and our values.” “Our open, diverse society is an asset in the struggle against terrorism, not a liability,” Mrs. Clinton said.
“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.” As Mrs. Clinton reached for the mantle of statesmanship, Mr. Trump’s speech amounted to a rejection of the conventional wisdom that he must remake himself for the November election as a more sober figure and discard the volcanic tone and ethnic and racial provocation that marked his primary campaign.
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. Yet Mr. Trump has showed little interest in assuaging those concerns. He used the hours after the Orlando massacre to claim prescience about the attack and to demand Mr. Obama’s resignation. Then, in a television interview on Monday morning, Mr. Trump darkly suggested that the president was sympathetic to Islamic terrorists.
“Orlando makes it even more clear,” she said. “We cannot contain this threat. We must defeat it.” “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.”
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.” Some Republicans said Mr. Trump’s determination to play to his hard-line base was undermining his standing as a general election candidate.
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. “He has to do what Reagan had to do. Reagan eventually had to make a sale that he was not a risk,” said Thomas M. Davis III, a former Republican congressman, recalling the 1980 election. “There is time, but the way he’s going about it now doesn’t do it at all. It keeps him in the hunt, but it doesn’t get him elected.”
“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.” John F. Lehman, a former Navy secretary and an adviser to John McCain’s and Mitt Romney’s presidential campaigns, said he anticipated that Mr. Trump’s standing would improve after the Orlando attack.
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. But he said Mr. Trump’s Muslim ban went “too far” and questioned whether he had made any effort to learn about national security.
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. Mr. Trump’s remarks may come as an acute disappointment to Republican leaders in Washington who have spent the days since he claimed the party’s nomination pleading with him to button down his campaign, only to see him intensify its racial tenor.
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. It is enough to convince senior Republicans that talk of an eventual pivot is folly that he is unwilling or incapable of being reined in.
“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.” “Everybody says, ‘Look, he’s so civilized, he eats with a knife and fork,’” said Mike Murphy, a former top adviser to Jeb Bush. “And then an hour later, he takes the fork and stabs somebody in the eye with it.”
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.”