This week, Trump stated that he is in favor of creating a database of Muslims and making them carry identification marking them as such.
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Several organizations resettling refugees around the country say they have been threatened in the last week. “But it’s all about management”.
But he retreated quickly Friday morning, posting a note on his Twitter page that said: “I didn’t suggest a database – a reporter did”. However, he did not disavow the prospect of a registry on social media or at an event Friday morning.
Trump said he also wants surveillance of “certain mosques”, adding, “We’ve had it before, and we’ll have it again”.
The Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for attacks in Paris that killed 130 people and wounded hundreds more. “Doesn’t mean that you hate all dogs, by any stretch of the imagination”.
The criticism came after Mr Trump, the real estate mogul who is the Republican presidential front-runner, voiced support for a mandatory database for Muslims in the U.S. while campaigning in the key early voting state of Iowa the previous day. Jeb Bush called it “just wrong”, John Kasich said it “strikes against all that we have believed in our nation’s history”, and Ben Carson called the singling out of religious groups for monitoring a “dangerous precedent”.
In an interview with NBC News, Trump was asked if a database tracking Muslims in the country was something he would implement if elected president. “And a few people are going to be upset about it, but I think that now everybody is feeling that security is going to rule”, he told Yahoo News.
During his slapshot stream of consciousness to a reporter (a Trump trademark), he had a moment of near-self-awareness: “We’re going to have to do certain things that were frankly unthinkable a year ago”.
Ingraham shared the Washington Examiner’s report on how the story was spun by liberals after Trump’s words were twisted out of context. Thursday, Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Florida, was asked whether he agrees with Trump’s assertion that mosques should be closed.
Even Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, who has largely avoided criticizing Trump, said, “I’m not a fan of government registries of American citizens”. “The First Amendment protects religious liberty”.
Trump additionally stated he wants a database on all Syrians refugees coming in to the USA, following the current, deadly assaults in Paris by which one suicide bomber allegedly came from war-torn Syria & entered France by foiling Europe’s refugee vetting system.
Trump’s speech took lots of twists and turns and he didn’t really focus on one thing.
The Council on American-Islamic Relations issued a statement, which says in part, “By mainstreaming and unconstitutional policies, Donald Trump and Ben Carson are contributing to an already toxic environment that may be hard to correct once their political ambitions have been satisfied”. Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called it “shocking rhetoric”.
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But Trump went beyond knocking Clinton for the language she uses in discussing the threat of terrorism, suggesting she lacks the “strength or the stamina” to lead the country.
