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发帖数: 61690 | 1 The shorter version of what President Barack Obama said Tuesday: Donald
Trump is an idiot.
The slightly longer version: The presumptive Republican nominee is a
dangerous manipulator who's either willfully or ignorantly out to damage the
country and put more Americans in danger, all for the sake of propelling a
brand of politics that responsible Republicans know they can't support.
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As Obama himself put it—the day after Trump breached whatever was left of
nonpartisan respect for the office in using his role as the party's standard
bearer by suggesting the president was sympathetic to terrorists —the
Republican’s Muslim ban and other proposals would destroy the pluralism
that makes “this country great, and then the terrorists would have won. And
we cannot let that happen. I will not let that happen.”
That razor-sharp response is what Obama’s campaign for Hillary Clinton,
fought on national security terms in the wake of a terrorist attack that’s
the deadliest shooting in American history, looks like: an attempt to
juxtapose the politics of seriousness versus the politics of fear, and a
demand to voters that they realize how much damage Trump has done just by
being in the race.
While Monday’s exchange was written off by weathered observers as just
another back-and-forth on the campaign trail, it really was a new frontier:
Trump’s nudge-nudge, meta-birther Obama accusations, followed immediately
by his one-time campaign staffer and now insistently unpaid adviser Roger
Stone that top Clinton aide Huma Abedin is a Saudi agent of terrorism, then
topped by a “they”-filled speech of casual slanders and pointed lies.
Obama responded in kind, going significantly further than he ever has, then
throwing down to the rest of Trump’s party who’ve spent the last day and a
half dodging reporters looking to pin them down on Trump's views: "Do
Republican officials actually agree with this?"
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Transcript: President Barack Obama's remarks after a counter-ISIL meeting
By POLITICO STAFF
(“Muslims are our partners," said House Speaker Paul Ryan at a press
conference Tuesday morning, while joining the attacks on the president for
not doing enough to deal with the “radical Islam” threat and sticking by
his Trump endorsement.)
Obama's time on the trail for Clinton was officially supposed to begin
Wednesday in Wisconsin, a rah-rah celebration of all the reasons he's with
her, full of hugs and smiles for the cameras and campaign commercial B-roll.
Orlando scrapped those plans. In the wake of Trump's response, Obama then
turned a sober review of his administration’s anti-terrorism efforts and
the latest on the investigation following his pre-scheduled meeting with his
National Security Council into his most searing attack on Trump yet. More
than just not being serious enough for the job or saying disturbing things,
Obama said the Republican has tipped into a new phase that will result in
death and chaos—all for the sake of tweets and cable news coverage.
Obama reworked his planned remarks after the news came in from Orlando, and
again on Monday after Trump started going, according to people familiar.
Part of what Obama said standing at the Treasury Department after the
meeting, part was ad-libbed — he was very much aware of what Trump said,
but his point, reinforced later by White House aides, was that the GOP
candidate is more unvarnished representative than outlier for his party, no
matter what distance other Republicans are trying to make. Other
presidential candidates called for tests, and the “radical Islam” attack
is one of the most well-worn talking points against Obama. That all seems
both short-sighted and full of teetering bias, according to people familiar,
and is what gets Obama going more than anything Trump’s said about him
personally. He and others also note that no Republican leader actively
condemned what Trump said about Obama’s terrorist ties or his calls for the
president to resign.
Meanwhile, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich — talked about as a potential
Trump running mate — on Tuesday said he believed the candidate's speech
Monday was a good start, and he called for a new House Un-American
Activities Committee to root out allegiance to ISIL.
Clinton’s right on the same page as Obama — though the White House and her
campaign deny there was explicit message coordination that led them to both
land at the same time, on the same themes and even some of the same words (
"there's no magic to the phrase 'radical Islam,’” he said, at almost the
exact moment she said Trump is “fixated” on “magic words” that are
supposed to stop the threat).
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/06/barack-obama-donald-trump-terrorism-224326#ixzz4Bap5QUAJ
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