[Steelfish]

Pandering, I thought was not his trump card. So begins his slide in the polls

[Mears]

Well that’s pretty discouraging.

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[I Hired Craig Livingstone]

Sigh

Still better than Scott Walker, at least.

[vbmoneyspender]

I love Germany so much I'm glad there are two of them.

François Charles Mauriac

[The Ghost of FReepers Past]

The right answer was “I am looking for Constitutionalists.”

[goodnesswins]

hahaha....Trump is a master at Alinskying....now, methinks he is practicing Taquiya

[windcliff]

He can bring Muhammad Ali onboard as exercise czar.

[BlackFemaleArmyColonel]

He has to say this UNTIL he is elected. We do know this, right?

[ClearCase_guy]

I'm not thrilled, but the alternative is for a guy seeking a national political office saying, "I'm prejudiced. I would discriminate. I just don't like those people and I would refuse to consider them for a job."

No one is dumb enough to say that. So anyone would say "They're great people."

[Taxman]

If Trump is not smart enough to understand that Islam means to destroy Western Civilization, he is not smart enough to be POTUS!

No longer will I support Trump!

[Behind the Blue Wall]

That’s exactly right.

[null and void]

A little bit of taqiyyah for the muslims and their supporters, maybe?

[Kenny]

I am sooo sick of people trying to paint Trump as caving, a liberal, or whatever. He’s been around a long time, been on the trail enough to get a feel for who he is. He’s spending his own money so what is he getting out of this?

I believe he wants to fix the country. Why don’t we stop parsing every word, looking for a gotcha, and just let him try. I think he’ll succeed.

[chris37]

I’m not really sure that there is another answer to this for a person seeking the presidency.

That being said, I don’t love them, and I don’t want them here at all.

I want them out.

[kjam22]

I think the right answer was muslim terrorists do, that’s a pretty well documented fact.

[nhwingut]

Yeah. He loves Muslims like Obama loves Christians.

[tinyowl]

Realistically, no choice. And, realistically, there are muslims who do not interpret the Koran ... traditionally.

"No, I would not put a Muslim in my cabinet" is the end of the candidacy, and the reality is that there are qualified Americans who are Muslim, love this country, and disagree with the destroy-all-but-Islam interpretation of the Koran. Frankly, I do not understand how one can interpret that book as anything but violent, and in my opinion, Muhammed was a purely political figure and a destructive one.

I'm open to debate on this, but I don't see any other answer. There are Muslims who detest what's being done in Islam's name. Not enough of them, and not loudly enough, and in my opinion it's a very sick religion right now, and perhaps can be nothing other than that as a whole because of it's foundations.

But if you disagree, what would your answer have been? Is it necessarily pandering to answer that way? I'm not so sure.

Perhaps his polls slide as a result. I doubt they will. Any other answer would have ended his polls.

The question that was asked requires a much longer answer than he could possibly have given. If this were a business deal, he could have said so. But ... it's politics. Trump will have to act like a politician sometimes. Reagan did too.

[TBP]

Consistent with many of his other views.

[BwanaNdege]

Trump was unable to avoid being asked about the latest...

Can anyone do a Lexus/Nexus search to see if that phrase has ever been in a article about Hillary...EVER?

[BwanaNdege]

Trump was unable to avoid being asked about the latest...

Can anyone do a Lexus/Nexus search to see if that phrase has ever been in a article about Hillary...EVER?