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jpak

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Mon Jun 13, 2016, 08:15 PM Jun 2016

Trump stretches facts in fiery post-Orlando speech

http://www.cnn.com/2016/06/13/politics/donald-trump-orlando-massacre-speech/

(CNN)Donald Trump responded Monday to the worst terror attack since 9/11 with a no-holds-barred attack on Muslims and Hillary Clinton that played loose with the facts and was rife with inflammatory rhetoric.

He claimed Clinton wanted to disarm Americans and let Islamic terrorists slaughter them, while seeming to overinflate the number of Syrian refugees and insinuating the perpetrator of the Orlando attack was a foreigner.

In a speech pulsating with tough talk that will likely please his supporters, the presumptive Republican nominee also renewed his call for a ban on Muslim migration into the United States -- and extended it to cover all nations with a history of terrorism. Hinting at a huge expansion of presidential power, he vowed to impose such a system by using executive orders.

"The current politically correct response cripples our ability to talk and to think and act clearly," Trump said framed by two American flags at Saint Anselm College in New Hampshire. "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."

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Trump stretches facts in fiery post-Orlando speech (Original Post) jpak Jun 2016 OP
Trump..play loose with the facts? Lol n/t Lance Bass esquire Jun 2016 #1
Fucking pig of a man-child rjsquirrel Jun 2016 #2
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