Trump: EgyptAir flight 'got blown out of the sky'
No official announcement has been made about what caused the crash of EgyptAir Flight MS804, but the likely Republican presidential nominee has no doubt that terrorists are to blame.
"About twelve hours ago, a plane got blown out of the sky," Donald Trump said in a speech at a campaign rally in Lawrenceville, N.J. "If anybody thinks it wasn't blown out of the sky, you're 100% wrong folks, OK?"
Trump also tweeted Thursday morning that the crash "looks like yet another terrorist attack" even before Egyptian Civil Aviation Minister Sherif Fathi said the cause was more likely terrorism that a technical malfunction.
Trump's declaration aside, nothing is yet known about the cause of the crash. Fathi said the probability of it being a terror attack is "higher than that of a technical error," but Reuters also quoted unnamed officials who said the United States saw no signs of an explosion.
Clinton didn't go so far as to claim 100% certainty about what brought down the plane, but she did say that "it does appear that it was an act of terrorism," in one of her first public comments after the crash. She added that Trump serves as a recruitment tool for terrorists, called him "potentially dangerous" and said he is "not qualified to be president of the United States."
"We have seen how Donald Trump is being used to essentially be a recruiter for more people to join the cause of terrorism," Clinton said in an interview with CNN Thursday morning.