Donald Trump
warned on Wednesday that unless the United States changes its
immigration and homeland security policies by making him president, 'the
horrible situation that we all just saw and saw so vividly' in Orlando
will be repeated over and over. 'I've
been saying it's going to happen,' he lamented during an afternoon
campaign rally in Atlanta, 'and I hate to say it again, but it's going
to happen again and again and
again – because we're not doing what we
have to be doing.'
'It's going to happen again and again and again,' he reiterated.
'When
you listen to the stories of what took place, and the laughter as this
man was shooting incredible people, you say to yourself, "How can this
be possibly happening in the United States of America?" How can this be
happening?'
While
railing against America's lax border control and Hillary Clinton's
willingness to accept a flood of Syrian refugees, Trump claimed that the
New York birthplace of Saturday night's mass-murdering Muslim is a
distraction.
'This person ... was born here, but his parents weren't,' Trump said.
'And his ideas weren't born here. His ideas were borne from someplace else.'
'We're
having the blood sucked out of us,' he insisted. 'We're having horrible
things happen where we're allowing people into our country that don't
deserve to be in our country, and bad things are gonna be happening.'
Protesters
interrupted Wednesday's rally a half-dozen times. One walked up the
downtown Fox Theater's aisle with middle fingers extended, yelling 'F***
you!' to the crowd. Another, an African-American man, proclaimed him a
'racist' with a clenched fist thrust skyward in a black-power salute.
The
billionaire real estate tycoon, now the presumptive Republican nominee
for president, seemed to resign himself to playing the role of Cassandra
in the age of global jihad, even at the risk of losing the November
election.
'I
know people are going to criticize me,' he told a crowd of about 4,000
as he ran through a list of bleak projections that would ultimately lead
to America's decline. 'They're gonna say, "Oh, what a horrible thing!
What a horrible thing!"'
'And
in a year or two or three from now they'll say "You know, Trump was
right, but he's right now building buildings someplace", Okay?' he
predicted.
'I'll be right. I don't want to be right. Boy, I don't want to be right!'
Trump
reiterated his controversial outlook about the role of law-enforcement
surveillance inside Muslim houses of worship as one component of a
strategy to nip budding terror plots before they play out.
'We aren't vigilant and we aren't smart,' he said. 'And we have to go and we have to maybe check, respectfully, the mosques.'
'Radical
Islamic terrorism,' he said, 'is a problem that if we don't solve it,
it's going to eat our country alive, okay? It's going to eat our country
alive.'
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