Trump defends call to ban Muslims from United States following terrorist video

Asked if he’s concerned his words are being used to recruit terrorists, Trump said, “They use other people, too”.

The video was released Friday on Twitter, according to the SITE Intel monitoring group, and tells the story of several Americans from Minnesota who joined al-Shabab and were killed in the fighting in Somalia, holding them up as examples.

Around 11 minutes into the video, Trump is shown making his speech to supporters in December.

He said his stance had drawn wide support, and he pointed to the recent terrorist attacks in Paris and said, specifically citing the case of Brussels, that many nations were “shutting down cities that had never had a problem before”. He has even coined the phrase, “Muslim problem” – one that he uses often when talking about terrorism. Now people are getting involved. “And now, huge parts of the world are saying, Trump is really right, at least identifying what’s going on”.

Trump, who has largely benefited from free publicity from USA television channels, has made a decision to launch a series of ads because he doesn’t “want to take any chances” despite having “such a big lead”. “Honestly, outside of the woman card, she’s got nothing going, believe me”, he said. And you [know] what I have to say?

He added: “But I have to say this. And we have to solve that problem”.

Soundbites from Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump have been included in a recruitment film released by Islamist militant group al-Shabaab, an affiliate of al-Qaeda based in Somalia.

With voters in Iowa set to kick off the 2016 election season with caucuses on February 1, Trump said he was confident his campaign has the momentum to carry him to victory in Iowa and other early nominating 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.

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said he would “leave open the possibility of spying” on allies like Israel if he were president.

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump promised that “nobody respects women more than Donald Trump”, as he slammed former President Bill Clinton’s “situation”.

Trump dismissed the new video in an interview aired Sunday on CBS’ “Face the Nation”.

Ben Rhodes, a deputy national security adviser for President Barack Obama, said the U.S.is at war with terrorists, not Islam. “I find it pretty rich that this ISIS propaganda tape talks about the cruelty of the West”, she said, given that group’s brutality.