WATCH: White house Press Secretary Josh Earnest says Donald Trump’s Muslim ban disqualifies him from serving as presidentWhite House @PressSec Josh Earnest: “What #DonaldTrump said yesterday disqualifies him from serving as President”.
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But she said: “The Prime Minister completely disagrees with the comments made by Donald Trump, which are divisive, unhelpful and quite simply wrong”. He says his listeners aren’t Trump fans, but he can see why some conservatives like him; he says Trump always defends himself and doesn’t apologize, which Hendrickson says is refreshing for Republicans.
Speaking to reporters after a closed-door Republican caucus meeting, Mr Ryan said: “Freedom of religion is a fundamental constitutional principle”.
Even Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling weighed in, decrying Trump on Twitter as worse than her fictional villain Lord Voldemort.
And Republicans up for re-election in the Senate grew terse in the Capitol hallways as they were asked again and again to respond to Trump’s remarks – a glimpse of their political futures if the former reality show star captures the GOP nomination.
Trump told ABC’s “Good Morning America” that banning Muslims is warranted because the U.S.is essentially at war with Muslim extremists who have launched attacks, including last week’s mass shootings in San Bernardino, California, that killed 14. He said the ban could be lifted “very quickly if our country could get its act together”.
Mr. Trump’s proposed ban prompted a horrified reaction from Republicans and others.
Speaker Paul Ryan on Tuesday criticized Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s proposal to bar Muslims from entering the USA, saying such views are “not what this party stands for and more importantly…” “He and others are playing into the hands of Isis (Islamic State)”.
Barbour helped author the Republican National Committee’s “Growth and Opportunity Project” after a painful 2012 presidential election that forced party leaders to re-evaluate their strategy in presidential contests to reflect the nation’s demographic shifts.
Those who came to America to escape religious persecution and discrimination in their home countries call Trump’s comments extremism. Jeb Bush went so far as to call Trump “unhinged”.
He added, “I have no doubt that we have no choice but to do exactly what I said until our country’s representatives can figure out what the hell is going on”.
An overflow crowed fills the hangar deck of the USS Yorktown as Republican presidential candidate, b … But Republican analysts say, until the Republican field is knocked down to two or three candidates, Trump is likely to stay on top.
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Muslims “are as much victimised by these groups as Christians or Jews or Hindus or Buddhists”, Zeid said. But the pledge isn’t binding, in Trump’s eyes, and he often flirts with the idea. Bernie Sanders said, “We are a weak nation when we allow racism and xenophobia to divide us”. He noted that, with all the uproar over Syrian refugees, only 2,300 have come to the United States since 2011, while 20 million people came on visa waivers a year ago, he said.
