Posted on 07/17/2015 9:18:10 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
GOP Presidential candidate Donald Trump called out President Barack Obama for his refusal to say "Islamic terrorism" in reference to the shooting Thursday in Chattanooga, Tennessee, which left four people dead. Trump suggested that given the security concerns that America is facing, the time for political correctness is over.
"It's going to get worse in our country and we better start fighting a lot tougher than we're fighting right now," Trump told Fox News host Bill O'Reilly in an interview. "If we're going to fight elements that are causing tremendous problems ... at least we have to start maybe being not so politically correct."
A 24-year-old suspect identified as Mohammad Youssef Abdulazeez is believed to have carried out the attack on two military sites in Chattanooga, killing four Marines and wounding three other people before being shot dead by police.
What is known so far is that Abdulazeez was a naturalized American born in Kuwait, and that he was a devoted Muslim who blogged about Islam online.
The FBI, which is leading the investigation into the crime, has said that Abdulazeez was not on any terror suspect lists, and that it is too early to establish a motive for the attack.
"We are looking at every possible avenue, whether it was terrorism — whether it was domestic, international — or whether it was a simple, criminal act," FBI Special Agent Ed Reinhold said.
Glad someone with an R after their name has the balls to say it.
Say whaaaaat?
IOW The WH is too slow to figure it out.
a simple, criminal act???
A simple criminal act is jaywalking or spitting on
the side walk, not murdering four people!!!
You can’t expect Obama to be too upset about this until it is determined that the shooter and his family were registered Republicans.
Wasn’t there a blog post that the Muslim killer was “ready for Jihad?”
“We are looking at every possible avenue, whether it was terrorism — whether it was domestic, international — or whether it was a simple, criminal act,”
Smoke gets in your eyes.
FBI Special Agent Ed Reinhold will get an award for blowing smoke.
His damn father was on the terrorist watch list!
Trump's responses are honest, heartfelt and to the point. Isn't that one of the most important traits a President should possess?
This could be the tipping point that sends Trump to the white house. I’m not a Trump fan but if he is the only politician that is willing to admit the truth, I will pull the lever for him.
They had no problem extrapolating Dylann Roof’s actions onto whites, southern whites, the Confederate flag standing as proxy for us. I have no problem extrapolating (and I don’t have to go even half as far to do so, considering that Islam in this day, at this very minute, exhorts its followers to kill the “infidel”) that Islam is responsible for this mass of murders, and that the Koran is its symbol.
His damn father was on the terrorist watch list!
Damn. I hadn’t heard that. We better wake the hell up as a country.
Bobby Jindal did it first but he can’t get arrested, though some lib did slam him for his “racial insensitivity!”
I would be willing to bet that if the shooter was a fundamentalist Baptist, the boy wonder would be up in arms along with the other racist pundits like sharpton and jackson.
That is the way Karl Rove managed President Bush II. And it sure has messed the Republican Party up. If you have no sense & no guts; you have no future. The tragedy is that the whipped cur approach has been destroying the future of millions of decent Americans, who trusted people who did not deserve to be trusted.
Just so!!!
-PJ
Same here.
Never liked Trump. I’ll vote for Cruz in the primary.
If he doesn’t get the nomination and Trump does, he’s the lesser evil, right? Wouldn’t even have to hold my nose as hard as for Romney.
Interesting question for anyone reading that hates Trump, would you vote for Hillary if Trump gets the nomination?
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