US Presidential candidate ignores racist attacks on Muslims

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September 18, 2015 2:11 PM

A speaker at a town hall meeting made a racist reference to Muslims and Trump failed to correct the speaker.

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At a town hall meeting, Republican and world most controversial presidential candidate Donald Trump failed to correct a speaker who said that America should “get rid of” Muslims.

In a video (posted below) the man asked a question, “We have a problem in this country,” he began. “It’s called Muslims. We know our current president is one.”

“Right,” Trump responded.

“You know he’s not even American,” the man continued.

“We need this question, this is the first question,”Trump said with a laugh.

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“We have training camps growing where they want to kill us,” the man said. “That’s my question, when can we get rid of them?”

“We’re going to be looking at a lot of different things,” Trump replied

“A lot of people are saying that, and a lot of people are saying that bad things are happening out there. We’re going to be looking at that and plenty of other things.” he added.

Later, in a statement to the Washington Post, Trump said his answers were more about defending Christians in the U.S.

President Obama is a Christian and was born in Hawaii. According to Buzzfeed, Trump has for years fed conspiracy theories that Obama was born in Kenya and is not eligible to be president.

Trump’s answer stood in stark contrast to the reaction of John McCain another Republican presidential candidate during a town hall meeting in Minnesota in 2008. At that event, he admonished a woman who said Obama was “an Arab” who couldn't be trusted in the White House.

Saying “no ma’am,” McCain would not let her finish and seized the microphone.

“He’s a decent family man — citizen — that I just happen to have disagreements with on fundamental issues, and that’s what this campaign’s all about.”

Watch the video below.

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