Donald Trump Responds to Criticism for Not Challenging Event Attendee’s Muslim

He also slammed Obama for being “horrible” in protecting Christians’ religious liberty.

McCain fired back and said: “No ma’am, he’s a decent family man and citizen”.

“GOP front-runner Donald Trump’s racism knows no bounds”.

“If you took the words white and black and you reversed them, you might think David Duke was giving that speech”, he added, referring to the white supremacist.

Real-estate mogul Donald Trump, caught up in yet another campaign-trail controversy, tweeted a multipronged defense of himself Saturday morning. “Those two things are self-evident”. “But I’ll leave that to Trump”.

“Donald Trump not denouncing false statements about POTUS & hateful rhetoric about Muslims is disturbing, & just plain wrong”.

Speaking with reporters after a campaign event, the former secretary of state said she was “calling on him and anybody else who is seeking the highest office in the land to start behaving like a president, to show respect and to start standing up for the truth”. “He has been trafficking in prejudice and paranoia throughout this campaign”. We don’t get along with China…

Trump appeared to take issue with none of the points raised by the questioner.

Cruz said, “We’ve seen the rights of Christians undermined all over the country”, under Obama, adding that he “has at times acted as an apologist for radical Islamic terrorists”. It’s called Muslims. We know our current president is one. And, you know, people are saying that.

Trump interrupted the man saying, “We need this question”. This is our first question.

After the event, Trump’s campaign told ABC News that he had difficulty understanding the question and was referring to mention of training camps.

Trump, without challenging the man’s statement and premise, replied, saying, “We’re going to be looking at a lot of different things”.

“To be clear, Trump’s response to the question regarding training camps in this country was “we will look into it”. “We are definitely going to be looking at that and a number of other matters”.

“These types of disgusting, over-the-top attacks only divide Americans and make it that much harder to find common ground on the important issues facing our country”, said Cory Fritz.

President Obama, who has spoken openly about his Christian faith, was born to an American mother and Kenyan father in Hawaii.

South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham has said Mr Trump should apologise.

@realDonaldTrump via Twitter Trump said he was not “morally obligated” to correct the man.

Ahead of one fundraising event in Las Vegas, Trump repeated his suspicions that Obama was born outside the country and therefore was unqualified for the office of the president.