Donald Trump featured in video released by Al Qaeda affiliate
“She’s not referring to a specific video, but he is being used in social media by ISIS as propaganda”, Clinton Communications Director Jen Palmieri said, using an acronym for the terror group.
“Look, there is a problem”.
“One of the things I have done is, I brought the problem out”. I have to say what I have to say.
“Now people are getting involved”, he continued.
When Dickerson asked how Trump felt about being used in “a recruitment video by a terrorist organization”, the businessman and reality TV star, who has also called for a mosque surveillance system and a database to track the movements of all Muslims living in the U.S., further defended his stance. Running at just over thirty seconds, the commercial features snapshots from the devastating San Bernardino shooting, and it has the Republican presidential candidate promising a “temporary ban on Muslims entering the United States”.
Trump had previously called for surveillance of mosques and spoke about the possibility of establishing a database for all Muslims in the U.S. Jeb Bush has branded Trump “unhinged” while Lindsey Graham – who in Demcember withdrew from the presidential race – has accused him of being “downright dangerous”.
But Trump is shrugging off the video and its message.
Trump’s inflammatory remarks sparked a wave of global outrage, with his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton warning that his words were playing into the hands of extremist groups.
The video came about two weeks after Clinton claimed during the third Democratic presidential debate that terrorist group the Islamic State, or ISIS, was using Trump in recruitment videos – a claim that fact-checkers debunked.
“The world is talking about what I’ve said”, Trump told CBS’ “Face the Nation” in an interview taped Friday. ‘What am I going to do?’ Trump asked.
“That’s awful. I’m admonishing you for the press, get him the hell out of there!” We have to find out what is a problem. “And now big parts of the world are saying, ‘Trump is really right at least identifying what’s going on.’ And we have to solve it. But you’re not going to solve the problem unless you identify it”, he said. Many governments in the Middle East have severed ties with Donald Trump and his various businesses on the back of what they call is a direct attack on Islam. I’ve been saying that for three years, and everybody said, ‘Oh, I can’t do that.