Posted on 11/20/2015 4:27:55 AM PST by RoosterRedux
A story is making the rounds on Facebook that claims Republican frontrunner Donald Trump is calling for "ID badges" for American Muslims. The image on the story is of Jewish children wearing yellow starts during the Holocaust. Very frightening--and a lie.
Step 1: Seed. The lie begins with a Yahoo! profile in which Trump is asked, supposedly (the reporter does not provide his exact question), "require registering Muslims in a database or giving them a form of special identification that noted their religion."
Trump does not say yes or no. Instead, he dodges the question, and comes back to the question of monitoring mosques (which the U.S. has done in the past): "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."
The Yahoo! reporter, Hunter Walker (a hater of note), construes Trump's answer as follows: "He wouldn't rule it out."
Step 2: Amplify. The story is picked up by CNN. Sara Murray asks whether Trump would "rule out" a database for Muslims--borrowing from Walker's article. Trump is surprised, and tells her, truthfully, that he never responded to Walker's question.
Here is their exchange, as reported by CNN:
When Murray asked whether Trump would rule out a database for Muslims, he said he didn't "know where you heard that.""Yahoo News asked you about it, you didn't rule it out," Murray said as Trump worked a ropeline after the event.
"No, I never--I never responded to that question," Trump said.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Ping
Thankfully Trump is very aware what reporters do to try and trip up, and he’s very very sharp and won’t let it happen!
I am so impressed with his sharp mind, and total recall!
Wall St Journal: Donald Trump Draws Fire for Comments on Muslim Database
Trump was talking about keeping track of people coming into the country.
The Jews were Germans who weren’t immigrants, refugees or foreigners visiting Germany on visas.
But leave it to the press to give an entirely different interpretation of what he said.
Forty years ago, the Left trumpeted a woman's “right to privacy.” No more. The 4th Amendment is gone.
The press knows how to tug heartstrings, and enough about history to like the people they do not like with villains of the past. The mainstream media is totally without honor.
“The mainstream media is totally without honor.”
Do scu&bags have any honor?
Just asking.
IMHO
Vox Day’s book “Social Justice Warriors Always Lie” is a must read for actually learning the tactics of those evil bastards.
What these idiots don’t understand is that there is already a database...on all Americans thanks to the domestic spying activities of the Obama thug administration.
Mr Trump better get use to this. The “news media” will always willing distort and demagogue anything any GOP candidate says.
Debbie Wasserman Schultz is running with this story and will end up with more egg on her ugly face, if that’s possible.
Trump calling for database tracking, little yelliw stars, religion on ID, and other backward anti-Constitution things probably solidifies the fascist thing.
Trump forgets ( if he ever knew) that those who give up liberty for security will get neither.
He will call out the media on this and make great news doing it.
I just saw a ditz repeat this lie on Morning Joe.
I didn’t believe he said it in the article posted yesterday but of course all the FR TDS sufferer’s went crazy over it.
Trump doesn’t give a crap about the Constitution
*sigh*
Not everyone's...just yours.
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