September 17, 2015 🟡 Significant

Fails to correct supporter’s anti-Muslim birther rant

At a Rochester, NH town hall, Trump let a questioner say “we have a problem… it’s called Muslims” and that President Obama is “not even an American,” offering no correction, which signaled tolerance of Islamophobic conspiracy theories.

"we have a problem… it’s called Muslims"

Categories

Offenses:
disinformation
Domains:
immigration civil-rights