“What I’m doing is no different than FDR”, Trump said on ABC’s “Good Morning America” program, referring to then-President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who oversaw the detentions. “Look at what happened in Paris, the disgusting carnage, and frankly Mika, if you look at Paris…it is no longer the same city it was”, Trump explained.
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“The prime minister completely disagrees with the comments made by Donald Trump, which are divisive, unhelpful and quite simply wrong”, said Cameron’s spokeswoman, Helen Bower. Muslims in the United States and around the world denounced it as unconstitutional, offensive or both.
U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Paul Ryan, a Republican, told reporters the plan is “not conservatism” and was not in the nation’s interest. “Nobody understands why. Hillary Clinton, because she’s afraid of the president, because of her e-mail scandal, Hillary Clinton refuses to use the term”.
“Religious freedom has been a very important part of our history”. Last month, he said he wasn’t against a database of American Muslims or forcing them to have special IDs.
The Philadelphia Daily News ran a front-page cover Tuesday likening Trump to Hitler with the headline, “The New Furor”.
“I watched the next door neighbor saying “oh well we didn’t report them because we didn’t want to racially profile” or “we didn’t want to profile”, Trump told the audience, reports NBC News. The current Republican front-runner announced his plan to cheers and applause at a Monday evening rally in SC.
Trump said on MSNBC that the idea is “common sense” and that it would not violate the Constitution – a statement at odds with legal scholars of all ideological stripes.
“We used to call it the quiet majority”, he said of his own supporters.
“He’s putting our soldiers and diplomats at risk, he’s empowering the enemy”, said Graham, another GOP presidential contender, in an interview with CNN. The real-estate mogul argued that the U.S. needs to find out “what the hell is going on” in the Muslim community and its ties to terrorism before allowing additional Muslims in.
He said: “His “policy” proposals are not serious”.
GOP Chairman Reince Priebus said in an interview Tuesday with the Washington Examiner that he disagrees with Trump’s proposal – the first time the party’s chief has publicly criticized a Trump proposal. But Mr Trump told Fox News it would “not apply to people living in the country”, adding that Muslims serving in the USA military would “come home”. Sunnyvale, California’s Mayor Jim Griffith said in a retweet. There should never be a day in the United States of America when people are excluded based exclusively on their race or religion.
Trump cited the San Bernardino shooting, in which 14 people were killed, as a reason for his latest declaration.
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Trump’s campaign has been marked by a pattern of inflammatory statements, dating back to his harsh rhetoric about Mexican immigrants. “He and others are playing into the hands of ISIS”.
