The presumptive Republican U.S.
presidential nominee used profanity at a
rally in Texas Friday night to describe
gunman Omar Mateen who shot up a
gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, killing
49 people and wounding scores more.
presidential nominee used profanity at a
rally in Texas Friday night to describe
gunman Omar Mateen who shot up a
gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, killing
49 people and wounding scores more.
Donald Trump also told the crowd the
outcome of that tragic night would have
been different if patrons had been
armed.
"If some of those wonderful people had
guns strapped right here, right to their
waist or right to their ankle and this son
of a bitch comes out and starts shooting
and one of the people in the room
happened to have it and goes boom,
boom, you know what folks, that would
have been a beautiful, beautiful sight,"
the billionaire businessman said to a
cheering crowd.
Trump also criticized U.S. President
Barack Obama who has once again called
for stricter gun control in the wake of
the Orlando massacre. "President Obama
is trying to make terrorism into guns
and it's not guns, folks. It is not guns,"
Trump said. "It's radicalization. It's a
hatred. It's a deep-seated hatred."
Trump's Democratic rival did not escape
his ire either. He told his supporters
Hillary Clinton wanted to allow refugees
into the U.S. from countries where "they
want to kill gays and they enslave
women and Hillary Clinton wants them
pouring in."
Some Republicans leaders have
encouraged Trump to tamp down his
rhetoric, but he has steadfastly refused.
