Re: Trump doesn't challenge anti-Muslim questioner at event
Does Trump still think Obama's birth certificate is a fake? He never really answered that, just let it die down.
As he should. It's really a no win to continue it.
No, he didn't. He gave a massive, easy opening to Democrats to say that this is what Republicans think, because he didn't act properly by correcting the questioner. His attempt to divert to "I don't need to defend the President" is a sham, and a weak one at that.
Politically smart or dumb, I suppose that's arguable, depending on your perspective. But you have to admit that Trump's reaction was pretty much a non-reaction. He neither supported or confirmed that he was of the same position as the questioner. He just moved on the next questioner.
Muslims wearing the United States Marine Corps uniform stood next to me in Fallujah and helped to face down our nations enemies. I don't recall seeing Trump there. The man's question didn't say that the problem in America was The President. He said the problem in America was Muslims. It is no different if he'd stood up and asked how we were going to get rid of all the black people, or all the jews.
And there was no follow up of significance from Trump or anyone else to support that position. Isn't that saying something already?
Wrong. Had Trump smacked down the questioner as only Trump can do, he would have brought the audience to its feet and created a MASSIVE counter-narrative story benefiting his campaign in particular and Republicans in general. Furthermore, he would have been doing the right thing. As opposed to what he did, which was the wrong thing.
Why is it Trump's responsibility or obligation to smack down someone with that position? (Even if it's not the questioner's position or question).
If smacking down the notion that "what's wrong with this country is Muslims" creates animosity against you, then you are creating animosity with all the right people.
I'd have to agree that terrorist training camps in country is a very bad thing. Whether or not it's true, I can't say. I've heard rumors, but haven't trusted the sources, and pretty much liken it to other off the wall conspiracy theories, along with those that say NASA staged the moon landing and that the 9/11 attacks were an inside job.
All that being said, the meat of the questioner's question was about the terrorist training camps that he believed were in country.
Trump handled it the only smart and reasonable way to handle it
Wrong. Trump handled it by implicitly supporting the assumption in the man's question. It was dumb politically and wrong morally.
You have the right to that opinion, the same way that I have a right to the opinion that he handled it pretty well. I'll even go so far as saying that he could have handled it better, but by far not the level of condemnation that you appear to want to dump on him.
What, you mean we are expecting him to have as least as much balls as John McCain? Yeah, agreeably, that standard might be too high for him.
Meh.
Well, suffice it to say that opinions differ on this. Fair enough.
I think this sums it up pretty well and puts it in proper context.
No, I'm not a dyed in the wool Trump supporter.
He's really not spoken about anything substantive to either support or criticize. I'm still waiting for that to happen. Until it does, I'm kinda sitting on the fence with Trump. He needs to deliver better than what he has, and his time is limited to do so. His constant bragging about all the money and deals that he's made are certainly being a tun off for me.
I already said months ago that I don't think Trump want's the nomination, but rather wants to be the king maker for the nominee, to bend the GOP conversation, that he has a beneficial side effect of dragging the establishment GOP to address the issues they don't want to talk about, and wouldn't have talked about had not Trump been successful and pushed them (of course that can only be successful if there's enough traction with the electorate, and there appears to be). Topics which would not have been raised in any sort of significant or substantive way without Trump pushing them. So even a reality TV star has a use, but disappointed that it takes a reality TV star to breech the topics that concern so many, as the establishment GOP wouldn't on their own.
Folks, the flaming/baiting needs to stop. It's rampant in a number of posts and it needs to end. The next person that does anything that even sniffs a B/F/T violation will be staring at points an a thread ban
