Loading ...Trump Doesn't Challenge Man's Anti-Muslim, False Obama Claims
Usually, it’s what Donald Trump says that sparks controversy. But Thursday night in New Hampshire, it’s what he didn’t say that is raising eyebrows.
In a sweaty gym in front of about 3,000 fans, Trump declined to correct the first questioner of the night who said President Obama was a Muslim and not a U.S. citizen.
“We have a problem in this country. It’s called Muslims. We know our current president is one. You know he’s not even an American,” the man in the audience said. “We have training camps growing when they want to kill us. My question: When can we get rid of them?”
Trump, who was an early and vocal questioner of President Barack Obama’s U.S. citizenship, did not correct the man about Obama’s faith. Obama is a Christian.
Instead Trump told the man, “We are going to be looking at a lot of different things. And a lot of people are saying that and a lot of people are saying that bad things are happening out there. We are going to be looking at that and plenty of other things.”
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Asked by NBC News for clarification after the event, Trump’s campaign said he interpreted the man to be asking about getting rid of the alleged “training camps,” not Muslims.“Mr. Trump was referring to the need to protect Christians religious liberties as his previous statement says and nothing more,” Trump spokeswoman Hope Hicks told NBC.
“To be clear, Mr. Trump’s response to the question regarding training camps in this country was, ‘We will look into it,” he said.
The interaction recalled a moment from the 2008 presidential campaign, when Republican candidate Sen. John McCain strongly corrected a woman who said she could not trust Obama because “he is an Arab.”
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton condemned Trump’s response.
Source: www.nbcnews.com