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Barack Obama: No, it doesn't. Terrorism is a real threat and nobody knows that better than me. One of the best ways of preventing it…

On the recordJuly 21, 2016
No, it doesn't. Terrorism is a real threat and nobody knows that better than me. One of the best ways of preventing it is making sure that we don't divide our own country, that we don't succumb to fear, that we don't sacrifice our values and that we send a very strong signal to the world and to every American citizen that we're in this together.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

Editor's note · Context

President Obama responding to a question about whether the Munich attack vindicates Donald Trump's views on security threats.

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