women.” [Donald J. Trump Statement on Preventing Muslim Immigration, Press Release, Donald J. Trump For President, 12/7/15] • Trump Said “Our Country Cannot Be The Victims Of Horrendous Attacks By People That Believe Only In Jihad, And Have No Sense Of Reason Or Respect For Human Life.” “Mr. Trump stated, “Without looking at the various polling data, it is obvious to anybody the hatred is beyond comprehension. Where this hatred comes from and why we will have to determine. Until we are able to determine and understand this problem and the dangerous threat it poses, our country cannot be the victims of horrendous attacks by people that believe only in Jihad, and have no sense of reason or respect for human life. If I win the election for President, we are going to Make America Great Again.” – Donald J. Trump” [Donald J. Trump Statement on Preventing Muslim Immigration, Press Release, Donald J. Trump For President, 12/7/15] Donald Trump Said He Did Not Care If His Call To Ban All Muslims From Entering The United States Was Politically Incorrect; “We Have No Choice. We Have. No. Choice.” “The billionaire developer and reality television star released a statement Monday calling for ‘a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until our country's representatives can figure out what is going on.’ Later Monday, Trump, 69, read the statement out loud at a rally in Charleston, S.C., where an enthusiastic crowd greeted him with cheers and chants of ‘Trump! Trump!’ and ‘U.S.A.! U.S.A.!’ ‘We have no choice. We have. No. Choice,’ Trump said, with a shake of his head. His statement may be politically incorrect, he said, ‘but I don’t care!’” [Washington Post, 12/8/15] TRUMP’S SPOKESWOMAN: EVEN MUSLIM AMERICANS ABROAD WOULD BE PROHIBITED FROM RE-ENTERING THE COUNTRY Trump Spokeswoman Said His Call To Ban Muslims From Entering The U.S. Applied To “Everyone,” Including American Muslims Who Happened To Be Abroad At The Time His Plan Was Implemented. “Trump, in a formal statement from his campaign, urged a ‘total and complete shutdown’ of all federal processes allowing followers of Islam into the country until elected leaders can ‘figure out what is going on.’ Asked by The Hill whether that would include American Muslims currently abroad, Trump spokeswoman Hope Hicks replied over email: ‘Mr. Trump says, ‘everyone.’’ During a Tuesday morning interview with ABC's ‘Good Morning America,’ however, Trump clarified that American Muslims would still be able to travel freely under his plan.” [The Hill, 12/8/15] TRUMP CLAIMED HIS MUSLIM BAN WAS COMMON SENSE, THEN CITED A POLL FROM A DISCREDITED EXTREMIST THINK TANK AS PROOF Donald Trump Said His Call For Banning All Muslims From Entering In U.S. Was A “Common Sense” Approach. “Trump said his policy preventing Muslims from coming to the U.S. is a ‘common sense’ approach to preventing a Paris-like attack on the U.S. ‘I have common sense. I know what has to be done, and we don't want to have a situation like Paris. And we don't want to have another World Trade Center,’ he said. ‘We don't want that. We need intelligence in this country. We need a certain toughness in this country or we're going to end up like a lot of the other places and we're not going to have a country left.’” [CNN, 12/8/15] Confidential Page 19
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