During a campaign stop in Newton, Iowa, Friday morning, the Republican presidential candidate told NBC News that he was for implementing a system that would require all American Muslims to register in a database to help prevent terrorism.
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The lone possibility for genuine misunderstanding I see is when Trump answers the first question by mentioning the wall and the reporter follows up with a generic follow-up about whether that would be something a Trump White House would want to do.
Governor Kasich, who has a Super PAC that will launch series of attacks directed toward Trump, said the database proposal by the real estate mogul was unworthy of the White House.
“We’re going to have to – we’re going to have to look at a lot of things very closely, ” Trump told Yahoo News.
“It led to their complete isolation and removal from society and we all know where the Holocaust ultimately went – to the complete destruction of the entire Jewish population”, she said. “We’re going to have to look very, very carefully”, he suggested.
Jeb Bush, who is trailing Trump in polls for the Republican nomination, said Friday Trump’s comment is “just wrong”.
He also suggested he would consider warrantless searches, “We’re going to have to do things that we never did before”.
‘I would certainly implement that, absolutely, ‘ he said in on-camera comments. We need protection, and we need it now, and we don’t have leadership in this country.
Ben Carson, meanwhile, reacted to Trump’s comments by saying: “I think we should have a database on everybody… hopefully we have a database on citizens here”.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally at the Oklahoma State Fair, Friday, September 25, 2015, in Oklahoma City.
Taufique says they are just part of a larger problem that is hurting, not helping America moving forward.
Expressing a similar sentiment, Clinton’s democratic rival, Vermont senator Bernie Sanders said in a statement: “This is an outrageous and bigoted statement”. The ad opens with pictures of Trump, Carson and Obama as a narrator says, “Job training for president does not work”.
“There should be a lot of systems, beyond database”.
Clinton slammed Trump’s remarks as “shocking rhetoric”.
“When you hear people like Donald Trump talking about wanting to do ID cards based on religion, what the hell is that?” “Mr. Trump should be ashamed of himself”.
He responded, “I was really responding to totally different reporter”.
Trump: Different places. You sign them up at different places.
Interviewer: Would they have to legally be in this database?
At the same time, he called Trump’s call for tracking and targeting Muslims specifically as something that would be “setting a pretty unsafe precedent”.
A few critics compared the idea to how Nazis forced Jewish residents in Germany to register during the Holocaust.
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Trump also reiterated similar ideas later that night in an interview with an NBC News reporter.
