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-Land of the Free
Trump Faulted for not Arguing with Questioner
2015-09-18
"We have a problem in this country. It's called Muslims," an unidentified man who spoke at a question-and-answer town hall event in Rochester, New Hampshire asked the mogul. "You know our current president is one. You know he's not even an American."
Some people know that. Others think he may have been born in America, but that doesn't make him an American.
Donald Trump came under fire Thursday night for his handling of a question at a town hall about when the U.S. can "get rid" of Muslims, for failing to take issue with that premise and an assertion that President Barack Obama is Muslim.
He didn't make the politically-correct correction. But I thought the idea was not to wrestle with a pig.
A seemingly bewildered Trump interrupted the man, chuckling, "We need this question. This is the first question."
Seemingly bewildered? Maybe he was faking it? You suppose the question was a plant, like Champ and Hilly's 'press conferences'?
"Anyway, we have training camps growing where they want to kill us," the man, wearing a "Trump" T-shirt, continued. "That's my question: When can we get rid of them?"

The real estate mogul did not correct the questioner about his claims about Obama before moving on to another audience member.

His comments were unexpectedly quickly denounced by Democrats. Hillary Clinton, the party's front-runner for president, personally tweeted late Thursday that Trump's remarks were "just plain wrong."
Did the Beest tweet from a secure smartphone?
Posted by:Bobby

#11  CNN AM is now repor that the Trump campaign is being accused of staging the incident???

By the Libs = DemoLefties, of course.

WEHELL THERE'S NOT-A-SHOCK!
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2015-09-18 23:55  

#10  " He's supposed to suppress and condemn what the guy says? " That is a very good paraphrase for this morning's NPR coverage of the debate. Pretty much what the "commentator" said.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418   2015-09-18 22:45  

#9  The Lefties, apparently, believe Mr. Trump is a ventriloquist? A Svengali?
Posted by: Blossom Unains5562   2015-09-18 17:39  

#8  Trump declines acknowledge the question head-on, punts with a non-answer, then afterword his campaign says he didn't hear all the remarks clearly. And he bills himself as a the non-politician. yeah right.
Posted by: DepotGuy   2015-09-18 13:09  

#7  Hard to believe they're resorted to this already - it's such a weak position. It reeks of desperation and defeat. Good.
Posted by: Rex Mundi   2015-09-18 13:02  

#6  In a poll, 29% of the people in this country think he is.
Posted by: JohnQC   2015-09-18 12:50  

#5  Is Obama a Muslim or not?

What difference, at this point, does it make?
Posted by: Elmerert Hupens2660   2015-09-18 12:35  

#4  I don't know how many people watched the so-called debates. I agree with Kasich who said if he were in the viewing audience, he would turned the debate off long ago. CNN was absolutely awful. The whole debate was a set up to discredit the Republicans and pave the way for the Democrats. Jake Tapper tried to play one candidate off another to get a food fight. CNN is absolutely deplorable. The Pubs ought to refuse to take part in anything that CNN does. CNN or the MSM should not be let near to anything to do with elections. They are irresponsible.
Posted by: JohnQC   2015-09-18 11:25  

#3  Trump can't be responsible for what some guy says. He's supposed to suppress and condemn what the guy says? Trump said there a lot of things we will look into. Come on, give me a break. Suppression of speech is becoming a huge problem in the U.S. Some of the questions the guy asked should have been raised by the lame stream media before Obumble got elected. We don't have a free press in this country anymore. They have abdicated their position and have become mouthpieces for the Democratic/Socialist Party. Had they performed as they should have, we wouldn't be in the plight we are in.
Posted by: JohnQC   2015-09-18 11:21  

#2  I wouldn't put it past liberal activists to start asking gotcha questions because they can't really lose. (1) He didn't counter the Obama is a Muslim (2) He agreed with the Obama. Either one fills the news cycles with Trump is bad.

I saw the video of two trying to pull some Global Warming gotcha on Cruz but he was too smart to let them get away with it.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2015-09-18 10:55  

#1  Right after the clown squad goes vigorously after the 'Bush Lied' crowd in their own tribe.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2015-09-18 09:55  

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