He cited the precedent set during World War II, when President Franklin D. Roosevelt ordered certain people of foreign extraction to register with the USA government as “Aliens of Enemy Nationality” and for those of Japanese descent to be locked way in internment camps. Although the Minnesota Republican party chooses not to denounce Trump’s race-based fear-mongering, I can no longer remain silent. “If you look at what he was doing, it was far worse”.
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The comments drew swift condemnation world-wide. British Prime Minister David Cameron slammed it as “divisive, unhelpful and quite simply wrong”.
Earnest acknowledged that oath, “but the fact is, the first thing a president does when he or she takes the oath of office is to swear an oath to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States”.
Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, R-Wis., right, and Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., leave a news conference following a GOP caucus meeting, at the Republican National Headquarters on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2015.
The front page of the Philadelphia Daily News pictured Trump holding his right hand out as if in a Nazi salute with the headline “The New Furor”. “We have to figure out what’s going on”.
But after top Republicans and almost the entire field of his presidential rivals condemned his recent proposal to ban Muslims from traveling to the U.S., Trump took to Twitter to remind them his loyalty only runs so deep.
His announcement of the proposal at a rally in SC was met with cheers.
Trump added, “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”.
Sen. Lindsey Graham said Trump’s rhetoric risked inflaming tensions in the Middle East, playing into the recruiting strategy of Islamic State militants, who have framed their battle as a war between Islam and the West.
It has consequences for the USA national security, he said.
He says Muslims, including would-be immigrants, students, tourists and other visitors, should be blocked from entering the U.S. following last week’s California shooting spree by two Muslims who authorities said were radicalised.
“All this helps is his buddy Hillary Clinton, for sure”, presidential hopeful and former Florida Governor Jeb Bush told reporters in Manchester, New Hampshire. Only 18 percent said they would reconsider their support.
Trump’s comments Monday came as his lead in preference polls in Iowa, the state that kicks off the nominating contest, appeared to be challenged by Cruz.
“It is un-Republican. It is unconstitutional”.
“So when he is talking about Muslims and having issues with them and whether they are good or not, apparently he doesn’t care if they are making money for him”, says Obeidallah.
Donald Trump’s widely reported call for a temporary ban on Muslims entering the USA has drawn criticism from both sides of the aisle, but so has his attempt to explain it.
In the late 1800s, Congress passed legislation broadly aimed at halting the immigration of Chinese laborers. Asked why he would bring up Trump’s appearance, Earnest said Trump has “a rather outrageous appearance” that illustrates “why it would be easy for people to dismiss the Trump campaign as not particularly serious”. “They’re ridiculous comments and it’s up to the people of the United States to choose who their leader is or up to people in his party but I am sure that, by and large, even people in his party will think his comments are ridiculous”.
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– St. Pete’s mayor has no regrets about his tweet barring Donald Trump from the city.
