Hillary to Trump in Tweet: "Cut it out." (HILLARY GROUP)
Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton told her Republican counterpart to "cut it out" late Thursday night, after Donald Trump fueled controversy by declining to correct an audience member who referred to President Barack Obama as a Muslim.
"Donald Trump not denouncing false statements about POTUS & hateful rhetoric about Muslims is disturbing, & just plain wrong. Cut it out," Clinton tweeted Thursday night. She signed the tweet with an "-H," which signifies that she wrote it.
Trump took questions at a rally in New Hampshire on Thursday evening. The first questioner called Obama a Muslim, said he was not American, and asked Trump when "we can get rid" of Muslim "training camps."
"We have a problem in this country — it's called Muslims," the man said. "We know our current president is one. You know he's not even an American — birth certificate, man. ... We have training camps growing, where they want to kill us. That's my question. When can we get rid of them?" the questioner said.
Trump responded: "We're going to be looking at a lot of different things. You know, 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 look at that and plenty of other things."
Critics almost immediately blasted Trump for not correcting the questioner to note that Obama was born in the US and is a Christian. Trump has a several years-long history of controversy questioning Obama's birthplace, and he said in July he doesn't know if Obama was born in the US....
http://www.businessinsider.com/hillary-clinton-donald-trump-muslim-question-obama-2015-9 via Business Insider
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