Tuesday, June 14, 2016

What Trump Really Meant When He Said Obama Has 'Something Else In Mind'

The president and others have often explained their aversion to the "radical Islamic terrorism" formulation, saying it demonizes Muslims in general and so plays into the hands of terrorist recruiters in the larger Islamic world. But Trump sensed something else at work, something sinister. Or so he strongly implied.

"Look, we're led by a man that either is not tough, not smart or he's got something else in mind," Trump said on Fox News. "He doesn't get it or he gets it better than anybody understands — it's one or the other and either one is unacceptable."

Questioned further as to his point, Trump told NBC News' Savannah Guthrie that "a lot of people" thought maybe the president "doesn't want to get it ... doesn't want to know about it." Trump said he preferred to think the president "just doesn't know what he's doing." But he again referred to unnamed but numerous others who think Obama "doesn't want to see what's really happening." Adding, finally: "And that could be."

But what is the "it" we are contemplating here? And just what is Trump suggesting so insistently?....
http://www.npr.org/2016/06/13/481934467/what-trump-really-meant-when-he-said-obama-has-something-else-in-mind?ft=nprml&f=1001


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