What Trump actually said about a Muslim registry

“Trump steps in it, Trump racist, Trump bigoted, anti-Muslim, wants database, wants to go to their mosques, wants to sign them up, wants to have them carry around symbols on their clothes to tell everybody who they are” and he never said it”.

When asked repeatedly how his idea would be different than what the Nazis did to the Jews and other minorities before World War II in Germany, Trump repeated “You tell me” to reporters.

“We should have a lot of systems”, Trump said.

Senator Cruz said in Iowa that the US Constitution “protects religious liberty and I’ve spent the past several decades defending the religious liberty of every American”. Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush called them “abhorrent”. He added that it was only manipulating the fears and angst of the people, which is not strength by weakness.

Donald Trump backed off discussion of a mandatory database to track Muslims on Friday after a torrent of criticism from both Republicans and Democratic opponents.

Meanwhile, another Republican presidential hopeful, Ben Carson, likened refugees seeking entrance to the United States to “a rabid dog running around your neighborhood”. Speaking with reporters, King also expressed a few opposition to Trump’s idea of a Muslim registry, saying he did not know how it would work in practice.

“Singling out any ethnic or faith group to register with the government is morally repugnant, not to mention unconstitutional”, AJC Executive Director David Harris said.

“Those are a reporters’ words and now everyone is saying it’s all Trump”. He says they are out of the American character and he sees them as nothing but political ploys.

“When you talk about internment, you talk about closing mosques, you talk about registering people – that’s just wrong, Bush said on CNBC’s Squawk Box”.

Virtually all of the GOP candidates vying for the White House have taken aim at Donald Trump. “If we don’t, we are doing a very poor job”.

Later that night, Trump told reporters he “never responded” to the questions from Yahoo and ignored follow-ups about his remarks to NBC.

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”.

But a separate exchange with NBC News muddied the picture of his position further.

Democratic presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders also criticised Trump’s comments. “Yes, we can and must protect ourselves, but we must do so without sacrificing our fundamental principles of freedom and liberty”.

Ben Carson came under fire this week for comparing terrorists who try to sneak into America as refugees to sick animals.

He also ignored a question of whether there would be consequences for Muslims who do not register into the hypothetical database.