Monday, September 19, 2016

Trump blames bombings on ‘freedom of the press’

During a Fox & Friends interview Monday morning, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump blamed the weekend attacks in New Jersey and New York City on refugees, a lack of profiling by law enforcement, and a basic constitutional freedom.

Trump sounded off on refugees at length — despite the fact that suspect identified by authorities in the weekend attacks is a naturalized U.S. citizen, not a refugee, and that of the hundreds of thousands of refugees resettled in the U.S. since 9/11, only three have been arrested for planning terrorist activities. Later, one of the hosts asked Trump what he would do to stop “people who are radicalized here.”

Trump, in reply, said that “freedom of the press,” a protected constitutional right, was to blame....
https://thinkprogress.org/trump-first-amendment-terrorism-f190ca5108b6#.ta14rumc8


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