Donald Trump predicted terrorist attacks like the one that occurred in New York City on Saturday would continue to happen because the nation’s leaders are “stupid.”
“I knew this was going to happen,” said the Republican presidential nominee during a Fox News interview on Monday while criticizing President Obama and Hillary Clinton’s foreign policy positions.
“Thousands of people are pouring into our country, we have no idea what we are doing,” he said. “Our leaders are, I don’t even say weak, I say stupid.”
The Republican presidential candidate said the problem is that too many people are being allowed into the country that “can’t be properly vetted.” He said the threat of terrorism is “only going to get worse … you have to stop them from coming.”
Though New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has said the bombing in New York was terrorism, it is still not clear whether the origins were domestic or international. But Trump said he thinks there is a foreign connection to the attack.
“We can’t let any more people into this country,” Trump said nonetheless.
Trump also blamed the incident on radical Islam, and commended Cuomo for calling it terrorism.
“He understands the problem and he’s calling it right. I will say that until very recently Hillary Clinton wouldn’t even say radical Islamic terror and I haven’t heard her say that, by the way,” he said.
Trump called out the city’s mayor Bill de Blasio and Hillary Clinton for not identifying the tragedy as terrorism. “This is radical Islamic terrorism,” said Trump.
