Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said Saturday that authorities should monitor certain mosques that he said could pose terrorist threats.
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Video captured tense moments between one protester and the crowd at Donald Trump’s rally Saturday in Birmingham.
In the widely viewed video, the protester can be seen being dragged to the ground by security before several Trump supporters begin punching and kicking him.
The story stated that they would mount a “guerilla campaign” against Trump to “defeat and destroy” his candidacy, and Trump was asked if he would consider still running as an independent candidate, something which he had hinted at before on the campaign trail.
The protester was eventually led out by police officers that were on the scene.
He refused to rule out that possibility on the show, saying “I’m going to have to see what happens”.
Donald Trump says “trouble’s coming out of the mosques” in the United States and “we’re being foolish, we’re kidding ourselves” if law enforcement doesn’t keep close surveillance on those houses of worship. We don’t know who they are. “I want to know who the hell they are”, Trump said. I want surveillance of these people that are coming in.
“And if I win – I’ve made it known – they’re going back”, he added.
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Trump also said he watched as “thousands and thousands of people” in New Jersey cheered the fall of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, giving the impression that he was talking about Muslims living in the United States being happy that so many Americans died in the attacks.
