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.
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That’s funny since an actual Nazi bankrolled Obama-George Soros!
Buy your Trump Whine.
I watched two pieces on TV news last night that were edited to clearly show Trump was for registering Muslims. I thought at the time, I really, really hope his lawyers have copies of this and sue the heck out of both agencies.
It’s beyond time that network news are called on their fabrication of lies. Their job is to report the news, not act as a propaganda wing for the government.
For years they have been allowed to destroy people with innuendos and lies. Time to stop.
Luckily, no one trusts the media anymore.
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