“I think he’s thrown us under the bus with the Iran deal, it’s risky for us and our allies overseas, like Israel”, he said.
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Last Monday, he called for “a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until our country’s representatives can figure out what is going on”, prompting condemnation from world leaders, the Muslim community and even members of his own Republican party. Ted Cruz surpassing the billionaire candidate.
“He speaks how he feels and speaks honestly, he means what he said and the other political people are using nice words to make it sound nice but Trump is not, he tells it like it is”, Hood said.
“You don’t know if they like us”.
Posner, who is the fourth most cited legal expert in the USA, also spoke favorably of Trump’s plan in two blog posts on his website.
“They support a ban on Muslims entering the United States?”
One “man on the street” interviewed agreed with Trump’s approach wholeheartedly.
A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey released on Thursday finds that 66 per cent of likely Republican voters favour the idea of a temporary ban on Muslims, while 24 per cent are opposed and 10 per cent are undecided.
What’s more, these supporters said they trust Trump to make things right. “We’re not talking about religion, we’re talking about security”.
Republican National Committee chairman Reince Priebus has always been wary that Mr Trump might go rogue and break off as an independent candidate, but on Tuesday, he told the Washington Examiner he did not agree with Mr Trump’s comments. “You’re going to have exceptions”. Not only are there many Muslims serving in our armed forces dying for this country, there are Muslims serving right here in the House working every day to uphold and to defend the Constitution.
“It exhibits an attitude by one American who is running for the highest office of our land about a willingness to discriminate against a religion”, he said on ABC’s This Week with George Stephanopoulos.
“I think his honesty, he’s just very upfront and honest with us”, Ross noted.
According to Real Clear Politics’ aggregated polling data, Trump leads the vast field of GOP presidential contenders as he’s polling at 29.8 percent.
“Since entering the race for the Republican Nomination, Trump has spewed hate rhetoric that has incited an increase in the number of attacks targeting Arab and Muslim Americans”, officials with the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC), said in a statement. “I’m feeling strongly about my country and I feel attacked when they’re going against him in that way”. Rand Paul, who debate host CNN said was “on the bubble” of qualifying just days ago, gets to stay in prime time. “You know people don’t know that about me”.
But no less an authority than Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia has said it is naive to think the country would never again resort to such harsh measures, particularly during wartime.
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Still other backers said they simply don’t take Trump’s plan at face value. The question I would ask is: “Is it morally right to allow people to come into this country at a time that ISIS is trying to infiltrate what (President Barack) Obama wants to let in?”
