Christie: I’d Never Let Someone Call Obama A Muslim At My Town Halls (VIDEO)

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New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie said on a Friday interview with “The Today Show” that fellow Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has “an obligation” to correct the misinformation about President Barack Obama.

A man at Trump’s campaign event in New Hampshire Thursday told the real estate mogul: “We have a problem in this country. It’s called Muslims. We know our current president is one. You know, he’s not even an American. Birth certificate, man. But anyway, we have training camps growing where they want to kill us. That’s my question: When can we get rid of them?”

Trump brushed off the comments on Obama’s heritage and religion, despite being a vocal critic of Obama’s citizenship. Instead saying, “We’re going to be looking at that and plenty of other things.”

Christies said The Donald had “an obligation” to correct the man.

“I wouldn’t have permitted that,” Christie said. “If someone brought that up at a town hall of mine, I would have said ‘Before we answer, let’s clear some things up for the rest of the audience,’ and I think you have an obligation as a leader to do that.”

Trump has to decide how serious he wants his candidacy to be, Christie said.

“He’s got to decide what he wants to do for himself, but I would just tell you if someone at one of my town hall meetings said something like that I would correct them,” Christie said. “I’d say ‘No, the President’s a Christian and he was born in this country.’ Those two things are self-evident.”

Here’s the video, from “The Today Show,” below:

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  1. Has anyone checked him for a fever? I worry when he’s reasonable…

  2. It’s the only attack that’s viable against Trump for the other candidates.

    And it might damage Trump but it’s a loser for them.

  3. See? This another example of the establishment candidates not having the guts to call the kettle black.

  4. Avatar for jalus jalus says:

    … Obama is a Muslim

    43% of Republicans believe President Obama is a Muslim – about the same percentage who believe Donald Trump’s favorite book is the Bible.

  5. Christie said. “I’d say ‘No, the President’s a Christian and he was born in this country.’ Those two things are self-evident.”

    It's entirely understandable a person would want others (if he/she even cared) to identify them correctly with the religion they practice. Having people think you're a Jew when you're a Lutheran might cause problems somehow when interacting with them. There are dozens more examples. However, going all the way back to Obama's election accusations he's secretly a Muslim are couched from the vantage point being a Muslim is in and of itself a bad thing. The concern has never been so much he was hiding his true religion, or had been perpetrating a fraud for all these years. Simply ***being*** (allegedly) a Muslim was the problem. Christie didn't criticize Trump and add "So what if Obama were a Muslim, that's a fine religion to adhere to." Conservatives crow about freedom of religion and freedom to practice the religion you choose. But they very specifically imply there is something wrong with being a Muslim. This seldom gets addressed in these terms. If Obama was a Muslim, so what? Why doesn't a prominent politician say that, and when confronted by the knuckle-dragging crowd say "Hey, remember freedom of religion?"

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