Trump facing fire at ‘get rid’ of Muslim question

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Presidential hopeful Donald Trump’s campaign camp slapped back some negative press from a town hall question about what the country could do to “get rid” of Muslims, telling a social media audience the outrage is media-driven and the larger issue is President Obama’s assault on Christianity.

An unidentified man at a town hall meeting in Rochester, New Hampshire, asked Trump: “We have a problem in this country. It’s called Muslims. You know our current president is one. You know he’s not even an American.”

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Trump interrupted to say, “We need this question. This is the first question,” CNN reported.

The man, who wore a Trump t-shirt, continued: “Anyway, we have training camps growing where they want to kill us. That’s my question. When can we get rid of them?”

Trump’s reply?

“We’re going to be looking at a lot of different things,” he said. “You know, a lot of people are saying that and a lot of people are saying that bad things are happening. We’re going to be looking at that and many other things.”

Trump disregarded the Obama reference. But Democratic Party front-runner Hillary Clinton was quick to pounce.

In a tweet, she wrote: “Donald Trump not denouncing false statements about POTUS & hateful rhetoric about Muslims is disturbing & just plain wrong. Cut it out. –H.”

The Trump campaign, shortly after, went on the defense.

Robert Costa with the campaign tweeted: “Trump stmt to WaPo: ‘The media wants to make this issue about Obama. The bigger issue is that Obama is waging a war against Christians …”

He also said: “More Trump:’…Christians need support in this country. Their religious liberty is at stake.”

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And Kailani Koenig, another campaign official for the Trump side, sent out this Twitter message: “Trump camp: ‘Mr. Trump was referring to the need to protect Christians religious liberties as his previous statement says and nothing more.”

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