Trump Has ‘No Doubt’ Refugees Will Carry Out Attacks In U.S.

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally at the Indiana Theater Sunday, May 1, 2016, in Terre Haute, IN. (AP Photo/Seth Perlman)
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Donald Trump on Sunday warned that if the United States continues to allow Syrian refugees to resettle in the country, they will carry out a major terrorist attack on U.S. soil.

During an interview on the National Border Security Council’s “Green Line” radio show, Trump was asked if it will take another attack on the same scale as the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks for Americans to call for increased border security.

“I do, I actually do. Bad things will happen – a lot of bad things will happen,” Trump responded, according to audio posted by Buzzfeed News. “There will be attacks that you wouldn’t believe. There will be attacks by the people that are right now that are coming into our country, because, I have no doubt in my mind.”

“I mean you look at it, they have cell phones,” he continued. “So they don’t have money, they don’t have anything. They have cell phones. Who pays their monthly charges, right? They have cell phones with the flags, the ISIS flags on them. And then we’re supposed to say, ‘Isn’t this wonderful that we’re taking them in?'”

Earlier in the interview, Trump criticized Hillary Clinton’s call for the U.S. to resettle Syrian refugees in the country.

“She wants the Syrians to pour into the country. We don’t know if they’re Syrians, by the way. We have no idea who they are because much of it is undocumented,” he said. “Wait until you see the problems we’ll have with that — just take a look at Germany, take a look at Europe, what’s going on over there.”

Trump has proposed a temporary ban on Muslims visiting the United States if he is elected president. Last week, he said that proposal was “just a suggestion,” before clarifying that he was not “softening” his stance on banning Muslims from coming to the U.S.

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  1. Maine’s Governor Paul LePig is a flat out racist.

    Former MLB Pitcher Curt Shilling is a Ted Nuggent like racist and cracker head.

    Trump should pick either Schilling or LePig to be his running mate…both would help to complete Trump’s push to be the neo-fascist Presidential ticket of the new Republican party. It would also make it crystal clear that Trump is the same as the 1960’s George Wallace and the KKK.

  2. Isn’t that the problem though? Donald Trump has ‘no doubt’ about anything, even things which he is completely and totally clueless about.

  3. Drumpf also has “no doubt” that every woman, and many men, have spontaneous orgasms whenever they are in his presence.

  4. Well, he must be confusing nausea with arousal.

  5. Avatar for pshah pshah says:

    “She wants the Syrians to pour into the country. We don’t know if they’re Syrians, by the way. We have no idea who they are because much of it is undocumented,” he said.

    The truth of the matter is - and not that he cares - is that we’ve been very slow in accepting Syrian refugees because of the thoroughness of the documentation process, where a number of agencies have to sign off before they’re allowed to enter the US.

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