Fox News host Bill O’Reilly has joined the chorus of individuals criticizing GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump’s proposed ban on all Muslims coming into the US, telling Trump on Wednesday night’s “O’Reilly Factor” that he finds his plan counterproductive.
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Mr Trump later told Fox News he had called off the trip because he didn’t want to put political pressure on Mr Netanyahu.
Yet Netanyahu had already begun to distance himself from Trump’s recent inflammatory comments about barring Muslims from entering the USA, disagreeing with them publicly and stating that Israel “respects all religions”, the AP reports. “You know, he said we have a meeting, and he looks forward to the meeting and all of that but I didn’t want to put him under pressure”. “I also did it because I’m in the midst of a powerful campaign that’s going very well”.
Trump has the GOP in turmoil over his call for a temporary ban on Muslims entering the US following last week’s mass shooting by an Islamic militant couple that killed 14 people in San Bernardino, California.
On Twitter early Monday, Trump asked, “What sport is he talking about, and who?” – even though Trump has met Ali several times, and even received an award named after the former heavyweight champion in 2007. I don’t want to make him into a martyr.
“We know what we feel and what we experience daily, but that doesn’t necessarily become a mainstream discussion until something like this happens, and then we actually can talk about this as a real issue and other people who maybe haven’t taken us seriously can start realizing, oh, maybe there’s really a problem”. Netanyahu had rejected Trump’s proposal on Muslims but said he would still meet with him.
From the day he launched his candidacy, Trump’s campaign has been driven by one controversy after the next.
Netanyahu, he said, ‘he’s a good man, he’s worked very hard, he has absolutely no support from President Obama – absolutely none’.
Trump supporters say that the whole Muslin ban situation has been blown out of proportion, and all that Trump really wants is to exercise “common sense” in protecting American lives. “When I came back to America in 1969 I didn’t have to worry about that”, said veteran Dave Copson of Loudon, New Hampshire.
Exactly 36 hours after formally announcing a trip to Israel, Republican White House contender Donald Trump said he was cancelling it. I believe that salvation comes only through union with Jesus Christ, received through faith. “It does scare me a little bit because he’s stubborn, but what we’ve been doing isn’t working”, she said.
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But the Trump visit has seemingly raised some opposition in Israel, with a range of lawmakers opposing it because of his comments about Muslims.
