Will bring waterboarding technique back in United States of America: Donald Trump
But Trump’s controversial comments about racial and religious minorities – from Hispanics to, more recently, Muslims – have strained his relationship with people of color. Without what he called “strong measures”, he warned, “you’re going to see buildings coming down all over NY City and elsewhere”.
There’s no conclusive evidence that New Jersey residents celebrated the attacks, and there’s no evidence whatsoever of any demonstrations where “thousands and thousands of people” cheered.
Then, Thursday, Trump spoke with Yahoo News on the issue of tracking Muslims through databases.
“I was punched, kicked”, said Southall. “We have to surveil the mosques”.
“I would certainly implement that. Absolutely”, Trump told NBC News in a televised exchange.
Trump said: “George, it did happen”.
“I consider Donald Trump a man of integrity”.
It began Saturday during a rally in Birmingham, Alabama when Trump called for surveillance of “certain mosques”, during a speech in which the candidate suggested a return to waterboarding and continued to pitch his plan for a database to track Syrian refugees within the United States.
He added that he didn’t “know who wrote it”, referring to the Yahoo News article, and declined to answer a follow-up question from Murray about whether he would “support something like that”, referring to a Muslim database. We want to go with watch lists.
You know, you made – you raised a few eyebrows yesterday with comments you made at – at your latest rally – and I want to show them, relating to 9/11. The notion that people in the thousands in New Jersey cheered the September 11 attacks is factually inaccurate.
Like expected, a few of the candidates for the White House came with their personal opinion on this statement, one of them being Chris Christie, fellow republican and New Jersey governor.
“Donald Trump chose to come through a 75 percent black city and campaign when he’s been making all these disparaging remarks about black people, about Latino people”, said Southall.
The message immediately took off on the social media platform, with thousands of people retweeting it and liking it within an hour.
In the past, Trump has said that he would physically fight Black Lives Matter protestors if they interrupted one of his rallies.
“You know, they don’t use waterboarding over there; they use chopping off people’s heads”, Trump said Sunday on ABC’s “This Week with George Stephanopoulos”.
Not surprisingly, Trump’s style – both open-ended and vague – has drawn extra scrutiny, especially given his standing as the clear front-runner in a wide field of Republican White House contenders.