Trump: Clinton, Obama protecting terrorists to be 'politically correct' 'If we don't get tough, and if we don't get smart and fast, we're not going to have our country anymore.'

Donald Trump, in a fact-challenged speech, tapped into the country’s deepest fears after Sunday’s terrorist attack in Orlando, warning that Washington was not just failing to protect its citizens but actively promoting policies that threaten Americans’ way of life.

Trump continued the victory lap he began Sunday, touting his proposal to temporarily ban Muslims from entering the U.S. as the only plan with any hope of keeping Americans safe. He expanded his attacks against the Obama administration, accusing it of protecting potential terrorists at the expense of the general public while handcuffing intelligence and law enforcement. He attacked Hillary Clinton’s response to the shooting as broadcasting “weakness across the world.”


“The current politically correct response cripples our ability to talk and to think and act clearly,” Trump said. “We're not acting clearly. We're not talking clearly. We've got problems. If we don't get tough, and if we don't get smart and fast, we're not going to have our country anymore. There will be nothing, absolutely nothing left.”

“We cannot talk around issues anymore. We have to address these issues head on. I called for a ban after San Bernardino. And was met with great scorn and anger,” he continued. “Many are saying that I was right to do so and although the pause is temporary, we must find out what is going on. We have to do it. It will be lifted, this ban, when and as a nation we're in a position to properly and perfectly screen these people coming into our country. They're pouring in and we don't know what we're doing.”

Trump attempted to tie his proposed Muslim ban to Sunday’s terror attack by pointing to shooter Omar Mateen’s father, who has previously made anti-American and pro-Taliban statements on satellite TV program he hosts. Trump incorrectly said Mateen, who was born in New York, emigrated to the U.S. from Afghanistan.

“The only reason the killer was in America in the first place is because we allowed his family to come here,” Trump said. (He separately said: "The killer, whose name I will not use or ever say, was born an Afghan, of Afghan parents who immigrated to the United States.")

The billionaire real estate mogul accused President Obama of negligence, attacking both the administration’s immigration and counter-terrorism policies. He called the Obama administration “incompetent” and portrayed proposals to allow more refugees from Syria into the U.S. as “a better, bigger version of the legendary Trojan horse.”

“If we want to protect the quality of life for all Americans, women and children, gay and straight, Jews and Christians, and all people, then we need to tell the truth about radical Islam and we need to do it now,” Trump said. “We are importing radical Islamic terrorism into the West through a failed immigration system, and through an intelligence community held back by our president.”

Trump also attacked Clinton, renewing a line of attack he used earlier in the day on Twitter accusing the former secretary of state of refusing to face the specter of terrorism in the U.S. head on. The GOP nominee taunted Clinton’s reluctance to use the term “radical Islamic terrorism” and said that his Democratic counterpart remained woefully unwilling to face down terrorism as commander in chief.

"Hillary Clinton, for months and despite so many attacks, repeatedly refused to even say the words 'radical Islam' until I challenged her yesterday. And guess what, she will probably say them. She sort of has said them,” Trump said. “She has no clue, in my opinion, what radical Islam is and she won't speak honestly about it if she does, in fact, know. She's in total denial and her continuing reluctance to ever name the enemy broadcasts weakness across the entire world. True weakness.”

"The bottom line is that Hillary supports policies that bring the threat of radical Islam into America and allow it to grow overseas," Trump warned. "And it is growing."

