Donald Trump in Favor of Implementing US Muslims Database
“This is shocking rhetoric”, she wrote.
Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton took to Twitter yesterday to challenge all Republican candidates to disavow Trump’s comments.
The group also chided Trump’s closest GOP challenger, former neurosurgeon Ben Carson, who on Thursday addressed the influx of Syrian refugees in the terms of a “rabid dog running around your neighborhood”, according to The Wall Street Journal.
“It’s not a question of toughness, it’s manipulating people’s angst and their fears”, Bush said. “That’s not strength. That’s weakness”, Bush said on CNBC’s “Squawk Box” Friday morning.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally at the Oklahoma State Fair, Friday, September 25, 2015, in Oklahoma City.
Republican frontrunner Donald Trump has sought to distance himself from comments in which he said that as president he would “absolutely” implement a tracking system that would require Muslims in the U.S. to register with a federal database.
Washington, Nov 21 As his call to create a database to track Muslims in America created a political furore, Donald Trump said the idea was not his, while presidential rival Ben Carson suggested a database for all immigrants.
Trump’s comments were also widely condemned by his rivals for the presidency as well as by religious leaders. “So if we are just going to pick out a particular group of people based on religion, based on their race, based on a few other thing, that’s setting a pretty unsafe precedent I believe”. What the hell is that? “I mean he must have a few kind of a thing going because, you know, when you see that he won’t even call them by their name, attack after attack after attack”, Trump said Wednesday on Boston’s WRKO radio.
In the midst of the heated debate on Syrian refugees following the tragedy in Paris, the Republican candidates have criticized President Obama’s plan to accept 10,000 Syrian refugees in the United States in the next fiscal year.
I didn’t suggest a database-a reporter did.
That conversation stemmed from a Yahoo News story published earlier in the day in which Trump said, “We’re going to have to do certain things that were frankly unthinkable a year ago”.
He said, however, it would be acceptable to shut down mosques where “a lot of activity going on that is radicalising people”.
Trump was in Iowa Thursday for a televised question-and-answer session hosted by WHO-TV at the Des Moines Area Community College.
“This is an outrageous and bigoted statement”, Sanders said in a statement. Ted Cruz have emerged as the country’s leading voices of opposition to Syrian refugees and in support of ratcheting up the U.S.’s national security initiatives, following the terror attacks in Paris that killed 130 people and wounded hundreds more. The “First Amendment protects religious liberty”.