Obama Explains His Casual Response to Brussels Attack: Best To Ignore It


Adding insult to very real injury, instead of flying back to Washington D.C. as one might expect the president of the United States to do after a devastating terrorist attack, Obama boarded Air Force One and charted a course for Argentina. Unsurprisingly, the GOP contenders for the presidency had some choice words for him:

“Donald Trump was the first of the Republican candidates to comment on the attack Tuesday and spent most of the morning doing phone interviews and sharing his thoughts on the tragedy.

In his first interview, on Fox News, he said the U.S. needs to ‘shut the borders,’ a statement he repeated later in the morning while appearing on the Today show.

During that appearance he also told host Matt Lauer he is a firm believer in using torture to get information from people behind attacks like the one in Brussels, stating; ‘Waterboarding is fine.’

Trump also called into Fox Business Network’s Mornings with Maria Bartiromo, saying the U.S. must have surveillance of Muslims in this country, particularly at mosques.

For his final interview of the day he spoke with Good Morning America and said Paris terror suspect Salah Abdeslam probably knew about the attack Tuesday and that had he been tortured it could have been stopped.

Abdeslam was arrested last week in Belgium.

‘President Obama is spending his time going to baseball games with the Castros,’ said Senator Ted Cruz later said, according to ABC News.

Ohio Governor John Kasich also criticized Obama for sticking to schedule and said, ‘The president must return home immediately and get to work with our allies to respond with strength against the enemies of the west.’

‘I’m a little surprised that the president is going to a baseball game when I believe – if I would have been president I would have cut short my visit, I would have flown home, I would have conducted calls jointly with heads of state and gone to assemble teams of people, intelligence experts, who can take a look at the serious breaches that we have in intelligence,’ Kasich said on CNN.

On Twitter Trump said, ‘President Obama looks and sounds so ridiculous making his speech in Cuba, especially in the shadows of Brussels. He is being treated badly!'”

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Source: Daily Mail



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