Trump Says He Dealt with Obama Muslim Question Better than ‘Harsh’ McCain

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Trump Says He Dealt with Obama Muslim Question Better than ‘Harsh’ McCain

Mediaite
Matt Wilstein
9/20/2015

Excerpt:

Donald Trump’s refusal to correct a supporter who called President Barack Obama a non-American Muslim at a New Hampshire town hall this week immediately drew contrasts to a similar incident during the 2008 election when John McCain corrected a woman who called Obama an “Arab.”

After posting some tweets in his defense on Saturday, Trump addressed the issue for the first time in public on Saturday night in a speech to evangelical Christians in Iowa, and even criticized McCain’s handling of the 2008 incident, which he characterized as a little “harsh.”

“Remember the famous day when John McCain just ripped that microphone out of the woman’s hands?” Trump asked his audience. “That was a little bit harsh, to be honest with you. Does anybody agree with me? That was harsh, wasn’t it? They gave him so much credit.
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McCain Counters Obama 'Arab' Question

Uploaded on Oct 11, 2008 by 'Associated Press'

While on the campaign trail Friday, Republican presidential nominee John McCain countered views by some in his audience who expressed fear of an Obama presidency, and a notion that the Illinois senator was an Arab. (Oct. 11)