Americans should expect more domestic terror attacks if Hillary Clinton becomes president, an aide to Donald Trump said Monday, minutes after the former secretary of state addressed the weekend’s bombings in New York and New Jersey.
“The only thing we can expect from a Hillary Clinton presidency is more attacks on our homeland and more innocent Americans being hurt and killed,” senior communications adviser Jason Miller said in a statement released by the Trump campaign.
Clinton accused Trump of giving “aid and comfort to our adversaries” during an impromptu press conference Monday morning, marking a direct reference to U.S. law which says “whoever, owing allegiance to the United States, levies war against them or adhered to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort within the United States or elsewhere is guilty of treason.”
Miller said the former secretary of state’s comments were “not only beyond the pale, [but] also an attempt to distract from her horrible record on ISIS.”
“If Clinton really wants to find the real cause of ISIS, she needs to take a long, hard look in the mirror,” he charged. “The decision to remove all American troops from Iraq in 2011, which was vigorously supported by Clinton, created the vacuum that led to the founding of ISIS. Nothing she says or does can ever un-ring that bell.”
Both Clinton and Trump have touted their plans to combat terrorism in the aftermath of recent bombings in Seaside Park, N.J., and New York’s Chelsea neighborhood that injured 29 people.
Ahmad Khan Rahami, an Afghan-born U.S. citizen and the suspect behind the bombings, was arrested by police after a shootout Monday morning in New Jersey.
