Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump declined Thursday to correct a questioner at a town hall event who incorrectly stated that President Barack Obama is Muslim and said he’d be “looking at” claims of terrorist training camps on American soil.
Trump, who has a history of making controversial remarks about immigrants and other groups, was kicking off a town hall event in Rochester, New Hampshire — his first since Wednesday evening’s second Republican primary debate.
“We have a problem in this country. It’s called Muslims,” said the first man Trump called on to ask a question. “We know our current president is one. You know he’s not even an American.”
Trump, who was a driver of the “birther” movement that claimed Obama wasn’t born in the U.S, first responded with feigned exasperation — “We need the question,” he said, to laughs — but let the man continue.
“We have training camps growing where they want to kill us. That’s my question,” the questioner continued. “When can we get rid of it?”
Trump did not dispute the man’s assertions and said he’d heard others raise the issue.
“We’re going to be looking at a lot of different things. And you know, a lot of people are saying that, and a lot of people are saying that bad things are happening out there,” said Trump. “We’re going to be looking at that and plenty of other things.”
The incident evoked a moment during the 2008 campaign when Republican nominee John McCain took the microphone away from a woman who said she didn’t trust Obama because he was an “Arab.”
Trump’s questions about the president’s country of birth helped build his stature among some conservative voters and pushed Obama to release a copy of his birth certificate in 2011. But the billionaire businessman has distanced himself from the issue during his current run.
Trump’s town hall, in a sweaty auditorium in Rochester, was also interrupted several times by a protester, whose interruptions were met by hostility from the friendly crowd.
(AP)
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Because OBAMA IS A MUSLIM
a message from Hashem (I.e. you will not find in any sefer or newspaper neither is it from me a businessman)
January 20 2008
President Barack (Husaine) Obama is what we need for moshiach to come. You see before Moshiach comes the whole entire world is going to be against Israel & the jews. Now, you can’t just have President Bush & the United States go against Israel, you need a Muslim i.e. Bnei Yishmael to rule America & THEN go against Israel. The way Judaism works is that if your mother is jewish then you are jewish. Muslims are just the opposite, if your father is Muslim then you are a Muslim & that is what Barack Obama is. (a Muslim from his fathers side) Now with America under Muslim/Bnei Yishmael rulership Moshiach can come.
Don’t fool yourself. we might be living in a Christian country but its in the hands of a muslim/bnei yishmael.
Hashem Doesn’t lie & said in Zecharia Hanavi thousands of years ago that before Mashiach comes THE ENTIRE WORLD will be against the yidden & Israel. open up a sefer Zecharya & see for yourself
We all find Trump entertaining and he very possibly would do a good job but at some point he’s going to have to listen to SOME advisors and he’s going to have to give us some policy besides for vague platitudes about building up military building a wall and making deals
#1: Seems like you don’t want to get confused by the facts, but the President is NOT a Muslim (nor was he born outside the US). The message you post is not from Hashem, but from you based on your misconceptions.
what is the basis for thinking that barack insane obama is a CHRISTIAN??? He grew up and was educated in a muslim school in INDONESIA. Who converted him? Reverend Wright??? That just makes it worse.