Donald Trump Said Americans Should Monitor Their Neighbors’ Behavior And Report Anything Suspicious. “GOP presidential front-runner Donald Trump said late Tuesday that everyday Americans should monitor their neighbors for questionable behavior. ‘The real greatest resource is all of you, because you have all those eyes and you see what’s happening,’ he told listeners in Myrtle Beach, S.C. ‘People move into a house a block down the road, you know who’s going in,’ Trump continued. ‘You can see and you report them to the local police. ‘You’re pretty smart, right?’ he asked his audience. ‘We know if there’s something going on, report them. Most likely you’ll be wrong, but that’s OK. ‘That’s the best way. Everybody’s their own cop in a way. You’ve got to do it. You’ve got to do it.’” [The Hill, 11/25/15] Donald Trump Said He Would “Err On The Side Of Security” When Weighing Civil Liberties Verses Security, And That “Every Time I Pick Up A Phone, I Assume People Are Listening To My Conversations.” “The billionaire said he would ‘err on the side of security’ during an interview on MSNBC's ‘Morning Joe’ Monday, a day after new National Security Agency (NSA) reforms went into place. ‘Every time I pick up a phone, I assume people are listening to my conversations,’ added Trump, the GOP front-runner. ‘I don’t like it, but I have to make that assumption. I would really much err on the side of security. As a lot of people would agree with me on that.’” [The Hill, 11/30/15] IN TWO SEPARATE INTERVIEWS, TRUMP WOULD NOT RULE OUT REQUIRING AMERICAN MUSLIMS TO REGISTER FOR A DATABASE AND SAID HE “WOULD CERTAINLY IMPLEMENT A DATABASE NOV 17: When Asked Whether Surveillance Of American Muslims Should Include Requiring Them To Register In A Database, Trump Said “We’re Going To Have To Look At A Lot Of Things Very Closely.” During a Nov. 17th interview, “Yahoo News asked Trump whether this level of tracking might require registering Muslims in a database or giving them a form of special identification that noted their religion. He wouldn’t rule it out. ‘We’re going to have to — we’re going to have to look at a lot of things very closely,’ Trump said when presented with the idea. ‘We’re going to have to look at the mosques. We’re going to have to look very, very carefully.’” [Yahoo, 11/19/15] • Yahoo’s Transcript Made It Clear That Trump Did Not Explicitly Rule Out The Idea Of Requiring American th Muslims To Register For A Database.During a Nov. 17 interview, Trump was asked “And in terms of doing this, to pull off the kind of tracking we need, do you think we might need to register Muslims in some type of database, or note their religion on their ID?” Trump responded, “Well, we're going to have to look at a lot of things very closely. We're going to have to look at the mosques. We're going to have to look very, very carefully. We have a president that refuses to say radical Islamic terrorism. He refuses to say it, which is the biggest shock in the world, because how can you not say it, if you don't say it, you're not going to get to the problem.” [Yahoo, 11/20/15] Trump Said That Surveillance Of American Muslims Would Include Measures “That Were Frankly Unthinkable A th Year Ago.” During a Nov. 17 interview, Yahoo News asked Trump whether his push for increased surveillance of American Muslims could include warrantless searches. He suggested he would consider a series of drastic measures. ‘We’re going to have to do things that we never did before. And some people are going to be upset about it, but I think that now everybody is feeling that security is going to rule,’ Trump said. ‘And certain things will be done that we never thought would happen in this country in terms of information and learning about the enemy. And so we’re going to have to do certain things that were frankly unthinkable a year ago.’” [Yahoo, 11/19/15] NOV 19: When Asked About A Database To Track American Muslims, Trump Said He “Would Certainly Implement That. Absolutely.” HILLYARD: “Should there be a Confidential Page 134
Donald Trump Report-DNC Page 148 Page 150