British Prime Minister David Cameron, breaking the custom of British leaders not commenting on USA presidential contenders, slammed it as “divisive, unhelpful and quite simply wrong”.
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“Donald Trump’s promise to ban all Muslims from coming to America is more – much more – than a shouted campaign provocation”, Brokaw said in a 2-minute editorial segment at the close of Tuesday evening’s NBC Nightly News.
An overflow crowed fills the hangar deck of the USS Yorktown as Republican presidential candidate, businessman Donald Trump, speaks during a rally coinciding with Pearl Harbor Day at Patriots Point aboard the aircraft carrier USS Yorktown in Mt. Pleasant, S.C., Monday, Dec. 7, 2015.
Trump made the comments in an interview with MSNBC on Tuesday, after calling for Muslims to be barred from entering the United States, which he said would be “a temporary measure”.
More than one GOP presidential candidate texted Scarborough or co-host Mika Brzezinski while Trump was on to complain about the airtime he was getting, Scarborough said.
Ibraham Hooper, director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, had an especially blistering response to Trump’s demand.
Noted U.S. constitutional expert Laurence Tribe, a Harvard Law professor, told MSNBC that Trump’s proposal would violate the U.S. Constitution’s ban on religious tests and granting all citizens equal rights.
The tycoon’s comments were created to capitalise on a shooting by a Muslim couple said to have become radicalised in San Bernardino, California, which killed 14 people.
The mayor told ITV News: “I think Donald Trump is clearly out of his mind if he thinks that’s a sensible way to proceed”. “If you give into it, if you’re getting upset over what he’s saying, you’re giving into what he wants”.
The ban on Muslims entering the USA would be “a temporary measure”, Trump told ABC, until US officials “can figure out what’s going on”. They want our cities to be crushed.
Trump continued to call Tuesday for a “shutdown” of Muslims entering the United States, saying the plan has “tremendous support” despite condemnation from critics who range from Republican rivals to the White House to foreign governments. “What was proposed yesterday is not what this party stands for, and more importantly it’s not what this country stands for”.
“Until we are able to determine and understand this problem and the unsafe threat it poses, our country can not be the victims of horrendous attacks by people that believe only in jihad, and have no sense of reason or respect for human life”, Trump said.
“Trump shows up and he’s not afraid to take tough questions”, he said.
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Trump’s proposal “overrides history, the law, and the foundation of America itself”, Brokaw reported.
