Trump Speech - The Threat: Radical Islam And The Age Of Terror

This summer, there has been an ISIS attack launched outside the war zones of the Middle East every 84 hours. ^{1 2}

The Boston Marathon Bombing wounded and maimed 264 people, ⁵ and ultimately left five dead – including 2 police officers. ⁶

In Chattanooga, Tennessee, five unarmed marines were shot and killed at a military recruiting center. ⁷

Last December, 14 innocent Americans were gunned down at an office party in San Bernardino, another 22 were injured. ⁸

In June, 49 Americans were executed at the Pulse Nightclub in Orlando, and another 53 were injured. ⁹ It was the worst mass shooting in our history, and the worst attack on the LGTBQ community in our history.

In Europe, we have seen the same carnage and bloodshed inflicted upon our closest allies.

In January of 2015, a French satirical newspaper, Charlie Hebdo, was attacked for publishing cartoons of the prophet Mohammed. Twelve were killed, including two police officers, and 11 were wounded. ¹⁰ Two days later, four were murdered in a Jewish Deli. ¹¹

In November of 2015, terrorists went on a shooting rampage in Paris that slaughtered 130 people, and wounded another 368. 12 France is suffering gravely, and the tourism industry is being massively affected in a most negative way. ¹³

In March of this year, terrorists detonated a bomb in the Brussels airport, killing 32 and injuring 340. ¹⁴

This July, in the South of France, an Islamic terrorist turned his truck into an instrument of mass murder, plowing down and killing 85 men, women and children ¹⁵ – and wounding another 308. ¹⁶ Among the dead were 2 Americans – a Texas father, and his 11-year-old son. ¹⁷

A few weeks ago, in Germany, a refugee armed with an axe wounded five people in a gruesome train attack. ¹⁸

Only days ago, an ISIS killer invaded a Christian church in Normandy France, forced an 85-year-old priest to his knees, and slit his throat before his congregation. ¹⁹

Children slaughtered, ²⁰ girls sold into slavery, ^{21 22} men and women burned alive. ²³ Crucifixions, ²⁴ beheadings ²⁵ and drownings. ²⁶ Ethnic minorities targeted for mass execution. Holy sites desecrated. Christians driven from their homes and hunted for extermination. ISIS rounding-up what it calls the “nation of the cross” in a campaign of genocide. ^{27 28}

Nor can we let the hateful ideology of Radical Islam – its oppression of women, gays, children, and nonbelievers – be allowed to reside or spread within our own countries.

We will defeat Radical Islamic Terrorism, just as we have defeated every threat we have faced in every age before.

Anyone who cannot name our enemy, is not fit to lead this country. Anyone who cannot condemn the hatred, oppression and violence of Radical Islam lacks the moral clarity to serve as our President.

The rise of ISIS is the direct result of policy decisions made by President Obama and Secretary Clinton

Let’s look back at the Middle East at the very beginning of 2009, before the Obama-Clinton Administration took over.

Egypt was ruled by a secular President and an ally of the United States. ^{33 34 35}

Iraq was experiencing a reduction in violence. 36 The group that would become what we now call ISIS was close to being extinguished. ^{37 38 39}

Libya is in ruins, ⁴² our ambassador and three other brave Americans are dead, 43 and ISIS has gained a new base of operations. ^{44 45}

Syria is in the midst of a disastrous civil war. ⁴⁶ ISIS controls large portions of territory. ⁴⁷ A refugee crisis now threatens Europe and the United States. ⁴⁸

In Egypt, terrorists have gained a foothold in the Sinai desert, near the Suez Canal, one of the most essential waterways in the world. ⁴⁹

ISIS has spread across the Middle East, and into the West. In 2014, ISIS was operating in some 7 nations. Today they are fully operational in 18 countries with aspiring branches in 6 more, for a total of 24 ⁵¹ – and many believe it is even more than that. The situation is likely worse than the public knows: a new Congressional report reveals that the Administration has downplayed the growth of ISIS, with 40% of surveyed analysts saying they had experienced efforts to manipulate their findings. ^{52 53}

At the same time, ISIS is trying to infiltrate refugee flows into Europe and the United States. ⁵⁴

Iran, the world’s largest state sponsor of terrorism, is now flush with $150 billion in cash released by the United States – plus another $400 million in ransom. 55 Worst of all, the Nuclear deal puts Iran, the number one state sponsor of Radical Islamic Terrorism, on a path to nuclear weapons. ^{56 57}

In short, the Obama-Clinton foreign policy has unleashed ISIS, destabilized the Middle East, and put the nation of Iran – which chants ‘Death to America’ ⁵⁸ – in a dominant position of regional power and, in fact, aspiring to be a dominant world power. ⁵⁹

It all began in 2009 with what has become known as President Obama’s global ‘Apology Tour.’ ⁶⁰

In a series of speeches, President Obama described America as “arrogant,” “dismissive” “derisive” ⁶¹ and a “colonial power.” ⁶² He informed other countries that he would be speaking up about America’s “past errors.” ⁶³ He pledged that we would no longer be a “senior partner,” that “sought to dictate our terms.” He lectured CIA

officers of the need to acknowledge their mistakes, ⁶⁴ and described Guantanamo Bay as a “rallying cry for our enemies.” ⁶⁵

Perhaps no speech was more misguided than President Obama’s speech to the Muslim World delivered in Cairo, Egypt, in 2009. ⁶⁶

In winning the Cold War, President Ronald Reagan repeatedly touted the superiority of freedom over communism, and called the USSR the Evil Empire. ⁶⁷

Yet, when President Obama delivered his address in Cairo, no such moral courage could be found. Instead of condemning the oppression of women and gays in many Muslim nations, and the systematic violations of human rights, or the financing of global terrorism, President Obama tried to draw an equivalency between our human rights record and theirs.

The failure to establish a new Status of Forces Agreement in Iraq, and the election-driven timetable for withdrawal, ⁶⁸ surrendered our gains in that country and led directly to the rise of ISIS. ⁶⁹

The failures in Iraq were compounded by Hillary Clinton’s disaster in Libya. President Obama has since said he regards Libya as his worst mistake. ⁷⁰ According to then-Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, the

invasion of Libya was nearly a split decision, but Hillary Clinton’s forceful advocacy for the intervention was the deciding factor. ⁷¹

With one episode of bad judgment after another, Hillary Clinton’s policies launched ISIS onto the world. ⁷²

Yet, as she threw the Middle East into violent turmoil, things turned out well for her. The Clintons made almost $60 million in gross income while she was Secretary of State. ^{73 74 75 76}

Incident after incident proves again and again: Hillary Clinton lacks the judgement, the temperament and the moral character to lead this nation. Importantly, she also lacks the mental and physical stamina to take on ISIS, and all the many adversaries we face – not only in terrorism, but in trade and every other challenge we must confront to turn this country around.

Our current strategy of nation-building and regime change is a proven failure. We have created the vacuums that allow terrorists to grow and thrive. ⁷⁷

I was an opponent of the Iraq war from the beginning – a major difference between me and my opponent.

Though I was a private citizen, whose personal opinions on such matters was not sought, I nonetheless publicly expressed my private doubts about the invasion. Three months before the invasion I said, in

an interview with Neil Cavuto, to whom I offer my best wishes for a speedy recovery, that “perhaps [we] shouldn't be doing it yet,” and that “the economy is a much bigger problem.” ⁷⁸

In August of 2004, very early in the conflict, I made a detailed statement to Esquire magazine. ⁷⁹ Here is the quote in full:

So I have been clear for a long time that we should not have gone in. But I have been just as clear in saying what a catastrophic mistake Hillary Clinton and President Obama made with the reckless way in which they pulled out.

After we had made those hard-fought sacrifices and gains, ^{80 81 82} we should never have made such a sudden withdrawal – on a timetable advertised to our enemies. ⁸³ Al Qaeda in Iraq had been decimated, and Obama and Clinton gave it new life and allowed it to spread across the world.

By that same token, President Obama and Hillary Clinton should never have attempted to build a Democracy in Libya, ⁸⁴ to push for immediate regime change in Syria, ^{85 86} or to support the overthrow of Mubarak in Egypt. ⁸⁷

One more point on this: I have long said that we should have kept the oil in Iraq – another area where my judgement has been proven correct. According to CNN, ISIS made as much $500 million in oil sales in 2014 alone, fueling and funding its reign of terror. ⁸⁸ If we had controlled the oil, we could have prevented the rise of ISIS in Iraq – both by cutting off a major source of funding, ⁸⁹ and through the presence of U.S. forces necessary to safeguard the oil and other vital infrastructure. ^{90 91} I was saying this constantly and to whoever would listen: keep the oil, keep the oil, keep the oil, I said – don’t let someone else get it.

If they had listened to me then, we would have had the economic benefits of the oil, which I wanted to use to help take care of the wounded soldiers and families of those who died – and thousands of lives would have been saved.

This proposal, by its very nature, would have left soldiers in place to guard our assets. In the old days, when we won a war, to the victor belonged the spoils. Instead, all we got from Iraq – and our adventures in the Middle East – was death, destruction and tremendous financial loss.

But it is time to put the mistakes of the past behind us, and chart a new course.

If I become President, the era of nation-building will be ended. Our new approach, which must be shared by both parties in America, by our allies overseas, and by our friends in the Middle East, must be to halt the spread of Radical Islam.

All actions should be oriented around this goal, and any country which shares this goal will be our ally. We cannot always choose our friends, but we can never fail to recognize our enemies.

As President, I will call for an international conference focused on this goal. We will work side-by-side with our friends in the Middle East, including our greatest ally, Israel. We will partner with King Abdullah of Jordan, and President Sisi of Egypt, and all others who recognize this ideology of death that must be extinguished.

We will also work closely with NATO on this new mission. I had previously said that NATO was obsolete because it failed to deal adequately with terrorism; since my comments they have changed their policy and now have a new division focused on terror threats.

I also believe that we could find common ground with Russia in the fight against ISIS. They too have much at stake in the outcome in Syria, and have had their own battles with Islamic terrorism.

My Administration will aggressively pursue joint and coalition military operations to crush and destroy ISIS, international cooperation to cut-off their funding, expanded intelligence sharing, and cyberwarfare to disrupt and disable their propaganda and recruiting. We cannot allow the internet to be used as a recruiting tool, and for other purposes, by our enemy – we must shut down their access to this form of communication, and we must do so immediately.

Unlike Hillary Clinton, who has risked so many lives with her careless handling of sensitive information, my Administration will not telegraph exact military plans to the enemy. I have often said that General MacArthur and General Patton would be in a state of shock if they were alive today to see the way President Obama and Hillary Clinton try to recklessly announce their every move before it happens – like they did in Iraq – so that the enemy can prepare and adapt.

The fight will not be limited to ISIS. We will decimate Al Qaeda, and we will seek to starve funding for Iran-backed Hamas and Hezbollah. We can use existing UN Security Council resolutions to apply new sanctions.

Military, cyber and financial warfare will all be essential in dismantling Islamic terrorism.

Just as we won the Cold War, in part, by exposing the evils of communism and the virtues of free markets, so too must we take on the ideology of Radical Islam.

While my opponent accepted millions of dollars in Foundation donations from countries where being gay is an offense punishable by

prison or death, ^{92 93} my Administration will speak out against the oppression of women, gays and people of different faith. ^{94 95}

Our Administration will be a friend to all moderate Muslim reformers in the Middle East, and will amplify their voices.

This includes speaking out against the horrible practice of honor killings, where women are murdered by their relatives for dressing, marrying or acting in a way that violates fundamentalist teachings. ^{96 97}

Over 1,000 Pakistani girls are estimated to be the victims of honor killings by their relatives each year. ⁹⁸ Recently, a prominent Pakistani social media star was strangled to death by her brother on the charge of dishonoring the family. ⁹⁹ In his confession, the brother took pride in the murder and said: “Girls are born to stay home and follow traditions.”

One such case involves an Iraqi immigrant who was sentenced to 34 years in jail for running over his own daughter claiming she had become “too Westernized.” ¹⁰⁰

To defeat Islamic terrorism, we must also speak out forcefully against a hateful ideology that provides the breeding ground for violence and terrorism to grow.

The common thread linking the major Islamic terrorist attacks that have recently occurred on our soil – 9/11, the Ft. Hood shooting, ¹⁰¹ the Boston Bombing, ¹⁰² the San Bernardino attack, ¹⁰³ the Orlando attack ¹⁰⁴ – is that they have involved immigrants or the children of immigrants.

A review by the U.S. Senate Immigration Subcommittee has identified 380 foreign-born individuals charged with terrorism or terrorism-related offenses between 9/11 and 2014, and many more since then. ¹⁰⁵

We also know that ISIS recruits refugees after their entrance into the country – as we have seen with the Somali refugee population in Minnesota. ¹⁰⁶

Beyond terrorism, as we have seen in France, foreign populations have brought their anti-Semitic attitudes with them. ¹⁰⁷

In Cologne, Germany, on New Year’s Eve, we have seen the reports of sexual violence and assault. ¹⁰⁸

Pew polling shows that in many of the countries from which we draw large numbers of immigrants, extreme views about religion – such as the death penalty for those who leave the faith – are commonplace. ¹⁰⁹

A Trump Administration will establish a clear principle that will govern all decisions pertaining to immigration: we should only admit into this country those who share our values and respect our people.

In the Cold War, we had an ideological screening test. ¹¹⁰ The time is overdue to develop a new screening test for the threats we face today.

In addition to screening out all members or sympathizers of terrorist groups, we must also screen out any who have hostile attitudes towards our country or its principles – or who believe that Sharia law should supplant American law.

Those who do not believe in our Constitution, or who support bigotry and hatred, will not be admitted for immigration into the country.

Only those who we expect to flourish in our country – and to embrace a tolerant American society – should be issued immigrant visas.

To put these new procedures in place, we will have to temporarily suspend immigration from some of the most dangerous and volatile regions of the world that have a history of exporting terrorism.

As soon as I take office, I will ask the State Department and the Department of Homeland Security to identify a list of regions where adequate screening cannot take place. We will stop processing visas from those areas until such time as it is deemed safe to resume based on new circumstances or new procedures.

The size of current immigration flows are simply too large to perform adequate screening. ¹¹¹

We admit about 100,000 permanent immigrants from the Middle East every year. ¹¹² Beyond that, we admit hundreds of thousands of temporary workers and visitors from the same regions. ¹¹³ If we don’t control the numbers, we can’t perform adequate screening.

By contrast, my opponent wants to increase the flow of Syrian refugees by 550% percent. ¹¹⁴

The United States Senate Subcommittee on Immigration estimates that Hillary Clinton’s plan would mean roughly 620,000 refugees from all current refugee-sending nations in her first term, assuming no cuts to other refugee programs. This would be additional to all other non-refugee immigration. ¹¹⁵

The Subcommittee estimates her plan would impose a lifetime cost of roughly $400 billion when you include the costs of healthcare, welfare, housing, schooling, and all other entitlement benefits that are excluded from the State Department’s placement figures.

In short, Hillary Clinton wants to be America’s Angela Merkel, and you know what a disaster this massive immigration has been to Germany and the people of Germany – crime has risen to levels that no one

thought would they would ever see. ¹¹⁶ We have enough problems in our country, we don’t need another one.

Another common feature of the past attacks that have occurred on our soil is that warning signs were ignored.

The Russians warned us about the Boston Bombers, ¹¹⁸ here on political asylum, ¹¹⁹ and the attackers were even twice interviewed by the FBI. ^{120 121}

The female San Bernardino shooter, here on a fiancé visa from Saudi Arabia, ¹²² wrote of her support for Jihad online. ^{123 124} A neighbor saw suspicious behavior but didn’t warn authorities, because said they didn’t want to be accused of racially profiling ¹²⁵ – now many are dead and gravely wounded.

The shooter in Orlando reportedly celebrated in his classroom after 9/11. ¹²⁶ He too was interviewed by the FBI. ¹²⁷ His father, a native of Afghanistan, ¹²⁸ supported the oppressive Taliban regime, ¹²⁹ and expressed anti-American views ¹³⁰ – and by the way, was just seen sitting behind Hillary Clinton with a big smile on his face all the way through her speech. He obviously liked what she had to say.

The Ft. Hood Shooter delivered a presentation to a room full of mental health experts before the attacks in which he threw out one red flag after another. ¹³¹ He even proclaimed that “we love death more than you love life!”

These warnings signs were ignored because political correctness has replaced common sense in our society

That is why one of my first acts as President will be to establish a Commission on Radical Islam – which will include reformist voices in the Muslim community who will hopefully work with us. We want to build bridges and erase divisions.

The goal of the commission will be to identify and explain to the American public the core convictions and beliefs of Radical Islam, to identify the warning signs of radicalization, and to expose the networks in our society that support radicalization.

This commission will be used to develop new protocols for local police officers, federal investigators, and immigration screeners.

We will also keep open Guantanamo Bay, and place a renewed emphasis on human intelligence. Drone strikes will remain part of our strategy, but we will also seek to capture high-value targets to gain needed information to dismantle their organizations. Foreign combatants will be tried in military commissions.

Finally, we will pursue aggressive criminal or immigration charges against anyone who lends material support to terrorism. Similar to the effort to take down the mafia, this will be the understood mission of every federal investigator and prosecutor in the country.

To accomplish a goal, you must state a mission: the support networks for Radical Islam in this country will be stripped out and removed one by one.

Immigration officers will also have their powers restored: those who are guests in our country that are preaching hate will be asked to return home.

Our victory in the Cold War relied on a bipartisan and international consensus. That is what we must have to defeat Radical Islamic terrorism.

But just like we couldn’t defeat communism without acknowledging that communism exists – or explaining its evils – we can’t defeat Radical Islamic Terrorism unless we do the same.

This also means we have to promote the exceptional virtues of our own way of life – and expecting that newcomers to our society do the same.

Pride in our institutions, our history and our values should be taught by parents and teachers, and impressed upon all who join our society.

Assimilation is not an act of hostility, but an expression of compassion. Our system of government, and our American culture, is the best in the world and will produce the best outcomes for all who adopt it.

This approach will not only make us safer, but bring us closer together as a country.

Renewing this spirit of Americanism will help heal the divisions in our country. It will do so by emphasizing what we have in common – not what pulls us apart.

This is my pledge to the American people: as your President I will be your greatest champion. I will fight to ensure that every American is treated equally, protected equally, and honored equally. We will reject bigotry and oppression in all its forms, and seek a new future built on our common culture and values as one American people.

Only this way, will we make America Great Again and Safe Again – For Everyone.

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⁹¹ (Matthew Philips, “ Islamic State Loses Its Oil Business,” Bloomberg , 10/14/14)

⁹³(“Stars Step Up Protest Against Anti-Gay Owner Of Beverly Hills Hotel,” CBS News, 2/6/15

⁹⁵ (William La Jeunesse, “ Rights Groups Silent As Clinton Foundation Takes Millions From Countries That Imprison Gays,” FOX News , 6/17/16)

⁹⁷(Perry Chiaramonte, “ Texas 'Honor Killing' Suspect Yaser Said Could Be Hiding In Plain Sight As NYC Cabbie, Private Investigator Says,” FOX News , 5/29/12)

⁹⁸(“Pakistan Honour Killings On The Rise, Report Reveals,” BBC , 4/1/16)

⁹⁹(Juliet Perry and Sophia Saifi, “ Brother Of Pakistan's Qandeel Baloch Charged With Crime Against State,” CNN , 7/19/16)

¹⁰⁰(“Iraqi Immigrant Gets 34 Years For Killing 'Too Westernized' Daughter,” CNN, 4/16/11)

¹⁰¹(“Army Major Kills 13 People In Fort Hood Shooting Spree,” History , Accessed 8/13/16)

¹⁰²(Peter Finn, Carol D. Leonnig and Will Englund, “ Tsarnaev Brothers’ Homeland Was War-Torn Chechnya,” The Washington Post , 4/19/13)

¹⁰³(Salman Masood and Declan Walsh, “ Tashfeen Malik, San Bernardino Suspect, Attended Conservative Religious School in Pakistan,” The New York Times , 12/7/15)

¹⁰⁴(Jonathan Landay and Yeganeh Torbati, “ Father Of Orlando Shooter Hosted Political Show On Afghan-Pakistan Issues,” Reuters , 6/13/16)

¹⁰⁵(Subcommittee On Immigration And The National Interest, “ At Least 580 Individuals Convicted In Terror Cases Since 9/11, At Least 380 Are Foreign-Born,” U.S. Senate Immigration Subcommittee , 6/22/16)

¹⁰⁶(Jamie Yuccas, “ Minneapolis Community Struggles With ISIS Recruiting Tactics,” CBS News , 9/19/15)

¹⁰⁷(Matt Hadro, “ Anti-Semitism Threatens France’s Jewish Communities,” The Washington Times , 1/18/16)

¹⁰⁸ (Jessica Durando, “ Report: 1,200 Women Assaulted On New Year's Eve In German Cities, USA Today , 7/11/16)

¹⁰⁹(“The World’s Muslims: Religion, Politics and Society,” PewResearchCenter , 4/30/13)

¹¹⁰ (James R. Edwards Jr., “ Keeping Extremists Out: The History of Ideological Exclusion and the Need for Its Revival,” Center for Immigration Studies , 9/05)

¹¹¹(“Nation’s Top Security Officials’ Concerns On Refugee Vetting,” Homeland Security Committee , 11/19/15)

¹¹²(Caroline May, “ Since 9/11 U.S. Has Accepted Over 2 Million Migrants from Majority Muslim Nations,” Breitbart , 11/16/15)

¹¹³(Julia Hahn, “ Congress Votes To Fund Nearly 300,000 Visas For Muslim Migrants In One Year,” Breitbart , 12/18/15)

¹¹⁴(C. Eugene Emery Jr. “ Donald Trump Says Hillary Clinton Wants To Let 500 Percent More Syrians Into The U.S.,” Politifact , 6/13/16)

¹¹⁵ (Subcommittee On Immigration And The National Interest, “ Clinton Refugee Plan Could Bring In 620,000 Refugees In First Term At Lifetime Cost Of Over $400 Billion,” U.S. Senate Immigration Subcommittee , 6/27/16)

¹¹⁶(Michelle Martin, “ Migrants Linked To 69,000 Would-Be Or Actual Crimes In Germany In First Three Months Of 2016: Police,” Reuters , 6/8/16)

¹¹⁷(Martha Raddatz, “ State Dept. Lapses Aided 9/11 Hijackers,” ABC News , 10/23/02)

¹¹⁸(Josh Gerstein, “ FBI Knew Earlier Of Boston Bombing Suspect,” Politico , 6/15/13)

¹¹⁹(Phil Marringly, Mike Dorning, and Julie Bykowica, “ Boston Bombing Suspect Apprehended at Watertown Home,” Bloomberg , 4/20/13)

¹²⁰“ In January 2011, two counterterrorism agents from the bureau’s Boston field office interviewed Tamerlan and family members..” (Eric Schmitt, Michael S. Schmidt and Ellen Barry, “ Bombing Inquiry Turns to Motive and Russian Trip,” The New York Times , 4/20/13)

¹²¹“ In response to this [March] 2011 request, the FBI checked U.S. government databases and other information to look for such things as derogatory telephone communications, possible use of online sites associated with the promotion of radical activity, associations with other persons of interest, travel history and plans, and education history. The FBI also interviewed Tamerlan Tsarnaev and family member.” (FBI National Press Office, “ 2011 Request for Information on Tamerlan Tsarnaev from Foreign Government,” FBI , 4/19/13)

¹²²(Brian Bennett and Richard A. Serrano, “ Scrutiny Of Tashfeen Malik's Fiancee Visa Fell Short, Congressional Investigators Say,” The Los Angeles Times , 12/18/15)

¹²³(Evan Perez and Dana Ford, “ San Bernardino Shooter’s Social Media Posts on Jihad Were Obscured,” CNN , 12/14/15)

¹²⁴(Richard A. Serrano, “ Tashfeen Malik Messaged Facebook Friends About Her Support For Jihad,” Los Angeles Times , 12/14/15)

¹²⁵ (Christian Datoc, “ Shooter’s Neighbor Didn’t Report ‘ Suspicious Activity’ For Fear of Being Labeled Racist,” The Daily Caller , 12/3/15)

¹²⁶(Hunter Walker and Jason Sickles, “ Orlando Shooter Omar Mateen Was Suspended For Cheering 9/11 And Beating Another Student In High School,” Yahoo , 6/16/16)

¹²⁷(Mark Mazzetti, Eric Lichtblau and Alan Blinder, “ Omar Mateen, Twice Scrutinized by F.B.I., Shows Threat of Lone Terrorists,” The New York Times , 6/13/16)

¹²⁸(Jonathan Landay and Yeganeh Torbati, “ Father of Orlando Shooter Hosted Political Show on Afghan-Pakistan Issues,” Reuters , 6/13/16)

¹²⁹(Tim Craig, Max Bearak and Lee Powell, “ Shooter Omar Mateen’s Father Says He’s Saddened By Massacre, Calls Gunman ‘ A Good Son’,” The Washington Post , 6/13/16)

¹³⁰(Tucker Reals, "What Has the Orlando Gunman's Father Said?," CBS News , 6/13/16)

¹³¹ (Dana Priest, “ Fort Hood Suspect Warned Of Threats Within The Ranks,” The Washington Post , 11/10/09)

Trump: I was an opponent of the Iraq war from the beginning – a major difference between me and my opponent - https://t.co/qgHmZs58am— Ann Coulter (@AnnCoulter) August 16, 2016

Trump: Our current strategy of nation-building and regime change is a proven failure. - https://t.co/qgHmZs58am— Ann Coulter (@AnnCoulter) August 16, 2016

Trump: Obama calls Libya his worst mistake. Hillary's advocacy for the intervention was the deciding factor. https://t.co/qgHmZs58am— Ann Coulter (@AnnCoulter) August 16, 2016

Our girl is on it, click dates to see tweets

Could you take me off your ping list?

[Just kidding!]

Thank you for the awsome pings, Mister Robinson.

What a speech!

Just like Rush Limbaugh said — tell a story.

[And a well-said story needs to show how lives are personally affected.]

There are exactly three choices this election.

1. Hillary
2 Trump.
3. FU America, I gots principles.

It’s legally hazardous for a US employer to express contempt for homosexuals. So Trump is as good as it gets for a modern business leader regarding that issue. His fellow business leaders also fortify the feeling of tolerance. They’ve been socially engineered.

But here’s the thing —

It doesn’t matter what Trump says about homosexual tolerance here in the US. It’s the judges he appoints.

What DOES matter is the leftist hypocracy. Never hurts to point out that leftists take bribes from thugs who created the Orlando Mass Murderer, and in exchange for those bribes, the leftists suck up to those butchers.

Thank you! I doubt I’ll hear the entire speech since I’ll be away from the radio. But this transcript gripped me from beginning to end.

‘I’m frankly getting tired of it. It’s as if [See-BS isn’t] even pretending to be objective.’

CBS [aka See-BS] would be useful for agressive interrogations if it weren’t classified as torture.

You’ve served your tour of duty watching that stuff and filling people in. If you think it’s time to recieve your Purple Heart and move on, I salute you for your common sense.

[If only I had served in the US military, then the above would mean more. FRegards ....]

Saying his administration will protect gays just like every other American from being slaughtered by Islamic terrorists is not acceptance of the sodomite agenda. Get your head outa your blind backside. An American President who will protect Americans ... all Americans is a must!

“Saying his administration will protect gays just like every other American from being slaughtered by Islamic terrorists is not acceptance of the sodomite agenda.”

When you say that you will protect all Americans, you have said all that needs to be said.

When you then go out of your way to add a mention of sodomites, that indicates acceptance of their agenda.

“Get your head outa your blind backside.”

ESAD.

“We tolerate all kinds of other sinners without demanding their deaths.”

Who is demanding that sodomites be killed, other than muzzies?

That said, there is a very great difference between tolerating a thing and deciding that death is too severe a punishment for a given crime.

“It doesn’t matter what Trump says about homosexual tolerance here in the US.”

It matters to me.

I had hoped we had a candidate who would not say one thing before the election and another after.

Trump also went out of his way to mention Christians, women and children because they are, and have been targets of terrorists like gay Americans.

we are fighting a war and Trump is saying what has to be said. he also is focused on winning the election. stop your Hilliary shite and grow up!

So, you just dropped in to try and create discord, did you?

Go back to DU, troll.

Two great speeches in a row. Trump is knocking this out of the ball park. My prayers are with this election. We can’t lose this or America sinks.

What matters is the leeway judges give states. THAT’s what matters on the homoesexual issue.

I would love a candidate who vows to seize the assets of corrupt politicians and Soros. But we can’t get everything we want.

‘Not just homos, but their associates.’

More so the associates actually. Most homosexuals will ignore Islamic attacks as things stand, but the support network of liberalism is a thinly woven coalition, easily unraveled if someone dares to.

IMPORTANT CONCEPT for screening immigrants and refugees ...

I realize that polygraphs of refugees/immigrants might get expensive, but not examining eye dialation responses. Just standard digital recorders and an hour-long training video.

Not to mention, if Hillary can train a pedophile to trick a polygraph, why can’t ISIS?

“What matters is the leeway judges give states.”

Judicial activism is certainly one of our biggest problems.

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