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President Obama Denounces Donald Trump For His ‘Dangerous' Mind-Set
Top Republicans Join President
In Condemning Trump’s Response
NRA Blames President Obama For Orlando Massacre
President Barack Obama angrily denounced Donald J. Trump on Tuesday for his remarks in the aftermath of the shooting massacre in Or- lando.
“We hear language that sin- gles out immigrants and sug- gests entire religious communities are complicit in violence,” President Obama said at the Treasury Depart- ment, without mentioning Mr. Trump by name.
His statement came after the President met with his na- tional security team on the sta- tus of the American effort against the Islamic State, a meeting that he said had been dominated by discussion of the Orlando rampage.
“Where does this stop?” President Obama said of Trump’s approach, noting that Trump had proposed a ban on admitting Muslims into the United States, and that the Or- lando assailant, like perpetra- tors of previous domestic terrorist attacks in San Bernardino, Calif., and Fort
PRESIDENT OBAMA
Hood, Tex., was an American citizen.
“Are we going to start treating all Muslim-Americans differ- ently? Are we going to start sub- jecting them to special surveillance? Are we going to start discriminating against them because of their faith?” the President asked, his voice rising with frustration. “Do Re- publican officials actually agree with this? Because that’s not the America we want — it doesn’t reflect our democratic ideals. It won’t make us more safe. It will make us less safe.”
Doing what it does best....placing blame some- where else, the National Rifle Association late Monday broke its silence on the slaughter of 49 people at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, labeling calls for restrictions on assault-style weapons as a “transparent head-fake.”
In a USA Today op-ed pub- lished online Monday evening, NRA lobbying director Chris W. Cox blasted appeals by President Barack Obama and presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton to limit access to assault-style weapons.
Cox called for the destruc- tion of “radical Islam,” de- scribing the movement as “a hate crime waiting to happen.” He also blamed the Obama
administration, saying a policy of “political correctness” al- lowed the Orlando killer to avoid punishment for making threatening comments about minorities at his job as a secu- rity guard.
A now-expired federal ban on sales of assault weapons, and state bans like California’s (which have been skirted by gun industry manufacturing tweaks) have done little to curb gun violence, Cox pointed out.
According to the Huffington Post, a study by the FBI, 94 percent of terrorist attacks in the U.S. from 1980 to 2005 were carried out by non-Mus- lims. America has more guns per capita than any Western nation, and by far more firearms homicides per day.
Top Republicans joined with President Obama and other Democrats Tuesday in sharply condemning Donald Trump’s reaction to the night- club massacre in Orlando, de- crying his anti-Muslim rhetoric and his questioning of Obama’s allegiances as divi- sive and out of step with Amer- ica’s values.
Trump — who just a week ago signaled an intent to snap his campaign into a more meas- ured tone for the general elec- tion — showed no sign of backing down from his sugges- tions that President Obama was somehow connected to or sympathetic with terrorists, telling the Associated Press that the President “continues to prioritize our enemy” over Americans.
President Meets With The Dalai Lama Amid Objections From China
A Chinese official warned on Wednesday that a meeting scheduled to take place in Washington between President Obama and the Dalai Lama would “undermine mutual trust and cooperation” between the two countries.
Despite the warning the President met with the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader at the White House on Wednesday morning.
Beijing routinely pressures foreign leaders not to meet the Dalai Lama, whom it accuses of seeking Tibet’s independence from China. The Dalai Lama, however, says he merely wants to protect Tibetans and their homeland’s identity.
Foreign leaders have increas- ingly declined to meet with the Dalai Lama, fearing retalia-
The Dali Lama spoke at Amer- ican University on Monday and was scheduled to meet with President Obama on Wednes- day.
tion from
protested and canceled high- level visits to Britain after Prime Minister David Cameron met with him in 2012.
President Obama has met the Dalai Lama on multiple occasions during his adminis- tration.
Beijing.
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