Trump: Clinton has harsher words for Trump supporters than Islamic terrorists
By Ben Kamisar
Donald Trump chastised Hillary Clinton for referring to his supporters as "deplorable," accusing her of talking "tougher about my supporters than she does about Islamic terrorists."
It's Trump's latest attack on Clinton's declaration that half of Trump's supporters are part of a "basket of deplorables," a comment the Trump campaign has seized upon to attack Clinton for demonizing Americans.
"She calls the patriotic Americans who support our campaign, many of whom cops and soldiers, ‘deplorable’ and ‘irredeemable’ and she means it. Has she ever talked that way about radical Islam? No. Or about those who oppose and murder women and gays overseas?" Trump said during a Monday rally in Fort Meyers, Fla.
"Let’s ask Hillary Clinton—how many people who subscribe to radical Islamic views and support the oppression of non-believers would you call 'deplorable' or 'irredeemable.' Or are those words reserved only for hardworking Americans who love our country and want to make a statement?”
He went onto connect the recent bombings in New York and New Jersey for a failure of America's immigration system, embodied by Clinton and President Obama.
Ahmad Khan Rahami, the bombing suspect now in custody, is a naturalized American citizen originally from Afghanistan.
The citizenship process includes at least one interview with immigration officials, on top of the earlier scrutiny to obtain entry and permanent residency into the United States. A person must be a permanent resident for at least five years before applying for citizenship.
The FBI said that Rahami was not on the agency's radar or any watch lists before the weekend bombings and that it does not know how he became radicalized.
But Trump argued Rahami entered the country because the country lacks adequate safeguards on immigrants.
It's Trump's latest attack on Clinton's declaration that half of Trump's supporters are part of a "basket of deplorables," a comment the Trump campaign has seized upon to attack Clinton for demonizing Americans.
"She calls the patriotic Americans who support our campaign, many of whom cops and soldiers, ‘deplorable’ and ‘irredeemable’ and she means it. Has she ever talked that way about radical Islam? No. Or about those who oppose and murder women and gays overseas?" Trump said during a Monday rally in Fort Meyers, Fla.
"Let’s ask Hillary Clinton—how many people who subscribe to radical Islamic views and support the oppression of non-believers would you call 'deplorable' or 'irredeemable.' Or are those words reserved only for hardworking Americans who love our country and want to make a statement?”
He went onto connect the recent bombings in New York and New Jersey for a failure of America's immigration system, embodied by Clinton and President Obama.
Ahmad Khan Rahami, the bombing suspect now in custody, is a naturalized American citizen originally from Afghanistan.
The citizenship process includes at least one interview with immigration officials, on top of the earlier scrutiny to obtain entry and permanent residency into the United States. A person must be a permanent resident for at least five years before applying for citizenship.
The FBI said that Rahami was not on the agency's radar or any watch lists before the weekend bombings and that it does not know how he became radicalized.
But Trump argued Rahami entered the country because the country lacks adequate safeguards on immigrants.
"This thug today, they think he came through Afghanistan. What kind of screening procedures were performed?" he asked.
"These are difficult subjects but we have an obligation to discuss them and come up with the right solution."
"These are difficult subjects but we have an obligation to discuss them and come up with the right solution."
And he rehashed his call for ideological vetting that would put higher scrutiny on those who want to enter the country.
"You can't have vetting if you don’t look at ideology and Hillary Clinton refuses to consider an applicants world view and thus her likelihood of being recruited into the terror cause at some later date," he said.
"Our current immigration system makes no real attempt to determine the views of the people entering. Since 9/11, hundreds of immigrants and their children from high-risk regions have been implicated in terrorism and terrorist related activity in the United States.”
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