Donald Trump response to the Orlando shootings is all about guess who?
On Twitter:
What has happened in Orlando is just the beginning. Our leadership is weak and ineffective. I called it and asked for the ban*. Must be tough.
*The suspected shooter was an American citizen, born & bred in the USA.
On Fox & Friends:
STEVE DOOCY: So, Mr. Trump, the president called for more gun controls. He also said it was terror and he said it was a hate crime -- but he did not say that it was Islamic terrorism. And for that reason, you say he should quit.
DONALD TRUMP: He doesn't get it or he gets it better than anybody understands -- it's one or the other, and either one is unacceptable.
and later, same interview...
TRUMP: I've been right about a lot of things. I don't want congratulations. What I want them to do is be tough and vigilant, our government. Look guys, we're led by a man that either is not tough, not smart or has something else in mind. And the something else in mind -- people can't believe it. People cannot believe that President Obama is acting the way he acts and can't even mention the words radical Islamic terrorism. There's something going on. It's inconceivable. There's something going on.
On the Today show with Savannah Guthrie:
GUTHRIE: Just this morning on a different network you said about the president he doesn't get it or he gets it better than anybody understands. What do you mean by that?
TRUMP: Well there are a lot of people that think maybe he doesn't want to get it. A lot of people think maybe he doesn't want to know about it. I happen to think that he just doesn't know what he's doing. But there are many people that think maybe he doesn't want to get it. He doesn't want to see what's really happening.
GUTHRIE: Why would that be?
TRUMP: And that could be. Because Savannah, Savannah, why he isn't addressing the issue? He's not addressing the issue. He's not calling it what it is. This is radical Islamic terrorism. This isn't fighting Germany, this isn't fighting Japan, where they wear uniforms.
In his trademark style, Donald Trump calls out President Obama as someone who tacitly, perhaps actively, supports terrorism. As he takes pains to point out, HE doesn't believe that. He thinks the president is a not smart, very weak person who just doesn't understand what his happening. It's always nebulous other people - "many people" - who think our president is intentionally blind (or something inconceivably worse).
With his comments cued up, time for his party's leaders to respond to their presumptive candidate's response to the Orlando shootings.
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