Posted on 06/12/2016 12:52:31 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
US presidential hopeful Donald Trump challenged President Barack Obama on Sunday to acknowledge that the deadly Orlando shooting was an act of Islamic terrorism or resign.
A gunman attacked a gay night club in Orlando overnight, killing at least 50 people and injuring 53 more. US media reported that the attacker, Omar Saddiqui Mateen, was a US national of Afghan origin who had vowed loyalty to the Daesh terror group.
"Is President Obama going to finally mention the words radical Islamic terrorism? If he doesn't he should immediately resign in disgrace!" Trump wrote on his official Twitter page.
In his address to the nation on the incident, which has become the deadliest mass shooting in the US history since the 2007 Virginia Tech massacre, Obama described it as an "act of terror and an act of hate," but stopped short of making a connection to radical Islam, which has not been proven.
The Republican frontrunner has been widely criticized for his controversial statements on Islam. In December 2015, he proposed a ban for Muslims entering the United States, as well as an Islamic registration and control of certain mosques.
Counter attack.
He meant Zero. See his subsequent post.
Good for him! Lib heads exploding as we speak.
That is fact
Romney and NeverTrumpers to make a statement denouncing Trump for his harsh language 3...2...1...
Obama allows Americans to die, all in the name of Islam..this guy was on the radar for THREE years, 2013 and 2014 and NOTHING was done..why, because the PC police doesn’t want to offend Islam..they are fine with offending Christians, Jews, etc..but NEVER EVER Islam
Trump hit the bull’s-eye again.
He did? Really? Oh this will be interesting.
You must also know the term "ad hominem", and how it is a confession of either a lost argument or of no position to argue from, thus the personal attack.
Right?
LOL!
Obama verrrrry carefully does NOT say Islam or Muslim unless there is a political gun to his head. He said terrorism. That is as far as he will willingly go.
No! No! At THIS White House “Jihadi Lives Matter”! TRUMP is so “divisive” on these things, and has a “tone”. /Snark
Right on! Every day O is permitted to keep occupying our American White House he imports more and more Moslem invaders jihadist Islamonazi terrorists in USA
Thank you Sidebar. Please consider my attitude appropriately adjusted.
Trump just locked in Florida’s 29 electoral votes.
I didn’t read it but I would say yes. RESIGN because it’s man against the machine at this point. Obama is no leader.
Democrats are all about speaking power to truth.
“......but stopped short of making a connection to radical Islam, which has not been proven.”
Like ‘H’ it hasn’t! IS took responsibility for the shooter, the shooting, the perp screaming Allah Ackbar, as well calling 911 pledging his allegiance to ISIS, are sufficient proof to know it was Islam much less whatever “radical Islam” is.
The BS is thick this morning.
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