Minutes Before Appeals Court Hearing Begins to Determine if Religion Is Basis for Muslim Ban
The infamous press release candidate Donald Trump read aloud on national television announcing his call for a ban on Muslims entering the U.S. was just deleted from the Trump campaign website. The deletion took place minutes after it was referred to during a White House press briefing and minutes before the start of a 4th Circuit Court of Appeals hearing on the ban.
“Donald J. Trump is calling for a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until our country’s representatives can figure out what is going on,” the official press release, a copy preserved by the Internet Archive, reads. During his press conference then candidate-Trump changed the language to say, “until our country’s representatives can figure out what the hell is going on.”
Here’s a screenshot of the campaign’s website where that press release lived, earlier today:
And here’s what it looked like on the day it was posted, December 7, 2015, and up until earlier today:
Here’s the rest of the text from the press release:
According to Pew Research, among others, there is great hatred towards Americans by large segments of the Muslim population. Most recently, a poll from the Center for Security Policy released data showing “25% of those polled agreed that violence against Americans here in the United States is justified as a part of the global jihad” and 51% of those polled, “agreed that Muslims in America should have the choice of being governed according to Shariah.” Shariah authorizes such atrocities as murder against non-believers who won’t convert, beheadings and more unthinkable acts that pose great harm to Americans, especially women.
Mr. Trump stated, “Without looking at the various polling data, it is obvious to anybody the hatred is beyond comprehension. Where this hatred comes from and why we will have to determine. Until we are able to determine and understand this problem and the dangerous threat it poses, our country cannot be the victims of horrendous attacks by people that believe only in Jihad, and have no sense of reason or respect for human life. If I win the election for President, we are going to Make America Great Again.”
Some tweets from other journalists noting the deletion:
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