“All I’m doing is giving you the facts and you don’t wanna hear the facts”.
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Whatever its merit, Trump’s controversial proposal demonstrated anew his power over the Republican field and his ability to force the party and fellow candidates to respond to his agenda.
The comments drew swift condemnation world-wide.
British Prime Minister David Cameron told The Telegraph in January that Emerson was “clearly a complete idiot”. Muslims in the United States and around the world denounced it as unconstitutional, offensive or both.
However, the pollsters went back to the respondents who said Trump was their first choice and asked a follow-up question: “Earlier you said your first choice in the Republican Primary is Donald Trump”.
Trump didn’t seem phased by the controversy as he wrapped up a speech Monday night on the USS Yorktown in SC and was greeted by a standing ovation. “The opener is the outrageous, the most outrageous demand you can make”. “Of course we should vet everyone who wants to come to our country to ensure they don’t pose a security risk, but it should be done based on factors that relate to security”.
“If they are so cowed by Mr. Trump and his supporters that they’re not willing to stand by the values enshrined in the Constitution, then they have no business serving as president of the United States themselves”, Earnest said.
“We are out of control”, Trump continued, according to the Guardian, adding: “We have no idea who’s coming into this country”.
“On some level it’s going to bring us all together to say it’s all of us versus ISIS”, he says.
What Trump proposed, he said, “is not what this party stands for”.
House Speaker Paul Ryan issued a strong rebuke of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s call to impose a ban on all Muslims entering the United States. “A lot of our friends here have encouraged me to criticize and attack Donald Trump”.
Leti Volpp, a University of California expert on immigration law said “there is no precedent for a religious litmus test for admitting immigrants into the United States”.
Farhan Haq said Ban has repeatedly spoken out against all forms of xenophobia and statements against migrants, racial or religious groups “and that would certainly apply in this case”. “They agree with me 100 percent”.
The FBI said Monday the Muslim couple who carried out the massacre had been radicalized and had taken target practice at area gun ranges, in one case within days of the attack last week that killed 14 people.
Trump received heavy backlash over his statement, which many claimed was promoting Islamophobia.
In the past, Trump also suggested a database for Muslims living in the country, as well as surveillance against mosques.
Hussam Ayloush, executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations-Greater Los Angeles Area, said Trump is trying to “create fear and division between Americans”.
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Lindsey Graham, senator for SC, called on all the other candidates to condemn Mr Trump’s statement.
