Hours after President Barack Obama blasted him for his anti-Muslim rhetoric, Donald Trump on Wednesday hit back calling him a “lousy” President who he said is “more angry” at the Repub-lican president
Hours after President Barack Obama blasted him for his anti-Muslim rhetoric, Donald Trump on Wednesday hit back calling him a “lousy” President who he said is “more angry” at the Repub-lican presidential nominee than the Orlando shooter.
“He (Obama) was more angry at me than he was at the shooter, and many people said that. One of the folks on television said, ‘Boy, has Trump gotten under his skin,’” Mr Trump told his cheering supporters at an election rally in North Carolina.
“The level of anger, that’s the kind of anger he should have for the shooter and these killers that shouldn’t be here. We have a radical Islamic terrorism problem,” Mr Trump said.
He was responding to Mr Obama’s strong statement earlier in the day in which he slammed the real estate tycoon for his anti-Muslim rhetoric including temporary ban of entry of Muslims in the US, increase in surveillance and for describing it as “radical Islamic terrorism”.
Meanwhile, legal scholars say Mr Trump’s proposal for suspending immigration from parts of the world with a history of terrorism could have a legal basis, but his assertion that it be part of a broader ban on Muslim immigrants makes it constitutionally untenable.
The new twist in Mr Trump’s anti-Muslim rhetoric came in the aftermath of a shooting massacre at a Florida nightclub by the US-born son of Afghan immigrants. On Monday, he expanded on his proposed temporary ban on Muslims entering the US, vowing if elected to halt immigration from any country which has a “proven history of terrorism” against America.
Many legal experts said Mr Trump’s proposal for a religion-based ban would be unlikely to pass the test of US constitutional guarantees and would likely be struck down by the courts if he tried to implement them by presidential decree.
However, a ban on immigrants from certain countries has some precedent and might pass muster.
“This is an absurd proposal to build a Fortress America and pull up the drawbridges,” said John Bellinger, a legal expert. President Barack Obama took a veiled swipe at Mr Trump on Tuesday, saying such ideas represented a “dangerous” mindset.
In response, Mr Trump on Wednesday hit back calling him a “lousy” President who he said is “more ang-ry” at the Republican presidential nominee than the Orlando shooter.
“The level of anger, that’s the kind of anger he should have for the shooter and these killers that shouldn't be here. We have a radical
Islamic terrorism problem,” he said.
