How the Media Smeared Donald Trump as a Nazi

Breitbart ^ | Joel B. Pollak

[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.

[Jane Long]

Love that graphic, mk. Nice work!

I may have to borrow that gem :)

[GonzoII]

Get used to it folks.....for the next twelve months.

[Jane Long]

Looks like they did ;-)

(Shoved their filth where the sun don’t shine :)

[UCANSEE2]

Trump calling for database tracking, little yelliw stars, religion on ID, and other backward anti-Constitution things probably solidifies the fascist thing.

This whole thread is about exposing what you just said as a LIE.

I can understand that you don't support TRUMP, but why would you support KNOWN LIES ?

You are not the GeronL I used to know.

[UCANSEE2]

Did you find one of these in your bedroom ?

[Amntn]

"The FR Trump Trolls have proven they are reprehensible, when stooping so low to comment on/advance MSM lies."

AMEN!!!

[Jacquerie]

I merely stated the reality of our corrupted republic.

[RoosterRedux]

As you have indicated, this will backfire on the MSM by driving folks, like Malkin, who previously didn't care for Trump, into his arms.

And as to the Trump Trolls...it amazes me to see Freepers lie with abandon in an effect to smear Trump. Have they no shame?

[mkjessup]

Love that graphic, mk. Nice work!
I may have to borrow that gem :)

I cannot claim credit for that graphic, I tip my hat to FReeper Bobalu who graciously said 'use as we see fit'.

As our Founder has said before, 'GO TRUMP GO!'

[HarleyLady27]

http://www.snopes.com/

Fact Check
Politics
Donald Trump

Demerit Badge

Donald Trump was inaccurately accused of suggesting that Muslims wear badges, a claim that drew inevitable comparisons to Adolf Hitler.

WHAT’S TRUE: Donald Trump was asked in an interview about whether Muslims should be subject to special scrutiny, a question he answered ambiguously.

WHAT’S FALSE: Donald Trump asserted that Muslims should wear identifying badges.

Any truth to the statements attributed to Donald Trump. tag line: “Trump crosses the Nazi line: Maybe Muslims should wear special ID badges” Reported by Raw Story. “(1) The real estate tycoon and reality TV star said he was open to registering U.S. Muslims in a special database, in addition to requiring them to publicly identify themselves by their faith.” (2) “Trump also refused to rule out warrantless searches as part of his call for increased surveillance of Muslim houses of worship, and he has also suggested that U.S. mosques could be shut down if they are deemed to be a security threat — although he’s not certain that’s legal.”

Origins: On 19 November 2015 web site The Hill published an article titled “Trump won’t rule out database, special ID for Muslims in US,” which reported on an interview given by Donald Trump after a series of terror attacks in Paris on 13 November 2015:

“Certain things will be done that we never thought would happen in this country in terms of information and learning about the enemy,” he added. “We’re going to have to do things that were frankly unthinkable a year ago.”

Trump would not rule out warrantless searches in his plans for increased surveillance of the nation’s Muslims, Yahoo reported Thursday.

He also remained open toward registering U.S. Muslims in a database or giving them special identification identifying their faith, the news outlet added.

“We’re going to have to look at a lot of things very closely,” Trump continued. “We’re going to have to look at the mosques. We’re going to have to look very, very carefully.”

The comments attributed to Trump caused immediate controversy on Twitter, where a number of users compared the described mandating of badges to similar treatment of Jews in Europe before the Holocaust. However, The Hill was a secondary source for the comments, originally published in a 19 November 2015 Yahoo! Politics article titled “Donald Trump has big plans for ‘radical Islamic’ terrorists, 2016 and ‘that communist’ Bernie Sanders.”

In the context of that interview, it’s important to note that Trump’s responses were non-committal. Furthermore, they were clearly in response to leading questions for which the actual phrasing wasn’t even provided:

But Trump ... has concerns about the larger Muslim community here in the U.S., he said.

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 ... 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 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.”

Precisely how such a question was presented to Trump was not elaborated upon in the printed text of the interview, nor was what his exact response (not “rul[ing] it out”) entailed. Moreover, the portions involving quotes were so exceptionally vague (”do things that we never did before,” “certain things will be done”) and full of obfuscation, it was impossible to discern even vaguely what Trump referenced. (The mandate of badges for Muslims was quite a leap by any measure.)

While it appeared Trump fielded a question about enhanced surveillance for Muslims and mosques, in no reasonable interpretation of the material provided did he himself suggest that followers of Islam should wear Holocaust-like badges as in Nazi Germany. That assertion appeared to be one fronted by the interviewer, and not fairly attributable to Donald Trump. It’s true that Trump espoused a position many would deem objectionable or offensive in the little he did say, but the controversy hinged largely on words he didn’t appear to have said.

Last updated: 19 November 2015

[RoosterRedux]

Trump’s lawyers will be sending out some “cease and desist” letters shortly backed up by threats of legal action for libel.

[MNJohnnie]

I know Mr Trump would like you to think he is a Master Media Manipulator but look at his polling negatives with average voters.

You have to win the General Election not just the Primary. The media’s attempts to paint Trump as a “loose cannon” is working with a lot of moderate-independent voters. He is going to need those voters to be elected President.

[Grampa Dave]

Who was the president during WWII, and what party controlled congress and the Supreme Court?

Below is a reality that has been hidden by the left wing media re German Americans in WWII. One of the best kept secrets of WWII was the internment of German American men, women and children, away from the rest of America.

Canada and some Latin America countries did the same and interned some Italians.

Why did these evil countries do this. They were at war with the Axis, Germany, Italy and Japan, and they did not want to have acts of terrorism committed against their citizens by possible terrorists.

Did the media label FDR as a Nazi for the internment of Germans, Japanese and some Italians during WWII?

[Stentor]

You have to win the General Election not just the Primary. The media's attempts to paint Trump as a "loose cannon" is working with a lot of moderate-independent voters. He is going to need those voters to be elected President.

That all sounds vaguely familiar as Presidents McCain and Romney will attest. If he can't win with actual American Republicans and crossover Democrats, he can't win. None of the 13 dwarfs can win at all.

The NWO and cheap labor wings of the party aren't ever going to support anyone worthwhile.

The retarded swing voters in the suburbs of Philadelphia may vote correctly by accident. They probably won't.

[RoosterRedux]

Check this out...

Donald Trump unleashes raging 12-tweet barrage, threatens lawsuit at 'irrelevant' rival

[GOPJ]

The press hates Trump - they hate us. If democrats could kill us and shelter terrorists from the ME, they would do it. We are the enemy is Hillary’s world... because she’s off her rocker. The press? They don’t have that excuse...

[Amntn]

Thank you for posting the Fact Check.

I knew when it was posted yesterday without any actual quotes it was BS.

[Jim Robinson]

well, bye

[GonzoII]

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[VideoDoctor]

Yahoo News? They’re as valid as the Nigerian email scam.