Posted on 11/18/2016 5:13:35 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist
President-elect Donald Trump's team said today that he had never advocated for "any registry or system that tracks individuals based on their religion" -- despite statements in the past that may be at odds with that.
"President-elect Trump has never advocated for any registry or system that tracks individuals based on their religion, and to imply otherwise is completely false," Jason Miller, Communications Director of the Presidential Transition Team, wrote in a statement. "The national registry of foreign visitors from countries with high terrorism activity that was in place during the Bush and Obama Administrations gave intelligence and law enforcement communities additional tools to keep our country safe the President-elect will release his own vetting policies after he is sworn in."
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Trump needs to do a better job of recognizing and reacting to "gotcha" questions like this. It's hard to call it misinformation when they have him on tape.
How do you determine who is a Muslim?
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