How Trump's top advisers view Muslims, in their own words
Steve Reilly , USA TODAY
Published 10:24 a.m. ET Feb. 9, 2017 | Updated 5 minutes ago
.... before they became two of President Trump’s top advisers, Steve Bannon and Sebastian Gorka, engaged in a winding conversation about Islam on Bannon’s talk-radio show.
“The dirty little secret, Steve, that nobody wants to tell you, (is) what the bad guys do — what al-Qaeda does or what ISIS is doing right now — is not fundamentally un-Islamic,” said Gorka, who at the time of the April 2016 show was a Breitbart writer, but today is a deputy assistant to the president ...
Reporting by USA TODAY and other news media about the recordings of Bannon's statements in 2015 and 2016 prompted White House press secretary Sean Spicer to address Trump’s views on Islam last week, suggesting “there’s a difference” between Bannon’s and Trump’s views on the religion. Yet in the recordings from Bannon’s shows, other people who've ascended to top jobs in the West Wing and the Cabinet openly aired controversial views about Muslims, immigrants in general, and their threat to America ...
According to a recent Cato Institute report, out of more than 3 million refugees admitted to the U.S. from 1975 to 2015, three committed terrorist acts that killed Americans. They were Cuban refugees in the 1970s ...
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