Source: Yahoo News

By Liz Goodwin and Olivier Knox

Hillary Clinton said Monday she would be willing to call the Orlando attack an act of radical Islamist terror.

“From my perspective, it matters what we do more than what we say,” the presumptive Democratic nominee said in a CNN interview. “And it mattered we got bin Laden, not what name we called him. I have clearly said we — whether you call it ‘radical jihadism’ or ‘radical Islamism’ — I’m happy to say either. I think they mean the same thing.”

Presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump blasted both President Obama and Clinton for not immediately calling Sunday morning’s mass shooting at a gay nightclub in Orlando an act of “radical Islam.” The attack, which left 50 dead, is the deadliest act of terror on U.S. soil since 9/11. Based on that omission, Trump called on Obama to step down from office and for Clinton to exit the race. In a Monday morning CBS interview, he said Clinton won’t use the term because she’s afraid of Obama’s Justice Department.

“She’s afraid to offend her boss because she doesn’t want to go jail,” Trump asserted, an apparent reference to Clinton’s use of a private email server while at the State Department.

Both Clinton and Obama called the attack an act of terror and hate but stopped short of connecting it to “radical Islam” in their initial statements. Authorities have said the attacker declared his allegiance to ISIS when he started shooting, but it’s unclear if he’d had any contact with the group or if they helped him plan the attack.

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