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Amid Firestorm, Donald Trump Defends Call to Ban Muslim Immigrants

HeadlineDec 09, 2015

Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump has doubled down on his call for a “total and complete” ban on Muslims entering the United States, despite condemnation from around the world and within his own party. In an interview with ABC’s George Stephanopoulos, Trump defended his proposal by comparing it to the detention of Japanese Americans, Germans and Italians under President Franklin Delano Roosevelt during World War II.

Donald Trump: “What I’m doing is no different than what FDR—FDR’s solution for Germans, Italians, Japanese, you know, many years ago.”

George Stephanopoulos: “So you’re for internment camps?”

Donald Trump: “This is a president who was highly respected by all. He did the same thing. If you look at what he was doing, it was far worse.”

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