Trump was addressed by a man during a rally Thursday in New Hampshire who incorrectly said that President Obama is a Muslim.
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“I would not advocate that we put a Muslim in charge of this nation”, replied Carson, who is third in the Washington Examiner’s presidential power rankings. “I absolutely would not agree with that”, he said on the broadcast, CNN’s Peter Bergen reported. He also said that Islam, as a religion, was incompatible with the Constitution.
Carson said he has no reason to believe President Barack Obama isn’t a Christian.
First time it’s ever happened to me.
TRUMP: I mean, some people have said it already happened, frankly.
On a mobile phone? Fellow Republican presidential candidates Chris Christie, Jeb Bush and Lindsey Graham and Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton all criticised Trump, who failed to appear at a Republican Party event on 18 September.
In a fresh anti-Muslim rant, the Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson said that he does not believe a Muslim should be president, sparking fresh criticism on the GOP politics towards the American Muslim community.
He said he is open, though, to voting for a Muslim for Congress. He spent time on his Sunday TV morning news appearances defending the decision. “Some people thought I should have defended the president in terms of the question that was asked the other night”.
But he said he understood the rise of anti-Islamic sentiment because “we were attacked by people who were all Muslim”. “It’s a problem in this country, it’s a problem throughout this world… I think about jobs”, Trump responded. “The answer is, at the end of the day, you’ve got to go through the rigors, and people will look at everything”. Obama was born to an American mother and Kenyan father in Hawaii.
Trump: “George, you have raised the question“.
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“We can be politically correct and say there is no problem whatsoever, but the fact is, there is a problem with some and it’s a very severe problem and it’s a problem that’s taking place all over the world”, he told host Chuck Todd. The White House eventually did release Obama’s birth certificate, but Trump continued to doubt its authenticity, according to the Huffington Post. Another said, “If someone made a nasty or controversial statement about me to the president, do you really think he would come to my rescue?”
