Trump Thinks The U.S. Should ‘Start Thinking About’ Racial Profiling

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump listens to introductory remarks before speaking in New York's Trump Tower building, Monday, April 18, 2016. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
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Donald Trump suggested on Sunday that racial profiling is the next step the United States should take in trying to seek out potential terrorists.

“Well I think profiling is something that we’re going to have to start thinking about as a country,” Trump said in a phone interview with CBS’ “Face the Nation.” “Other countries do it, you look at Israel and you look at others, they do it and they do it successfully. And I hate the concept of profiling but we have to start using common sense and we have to use our heads.”

“It’s not the worst thing to do,” he added.

Trump did not explicitly lay out which Americans would face profiling, but his comments came in response to the mass shooting at a Florida LGBT club last weekend that left 49 dead. The shooter, Omar Mateen, was a Muslim born in New York and reportedly self-radicalized online.

In response to the attack, Trump has amped up his rhetoric against Muslim Americans, blaming them for failing to notify authorities about suspicious individuals within their communities and saying they’re unable to assimilate. He’s also said federal officials need to “check, respectfully, the mosques” and implement his proposed ban on Muslim immigration.

Though his comments have been critiqued by GOP leaders still clinging to their tepid endorsements of the presumptive nominee, Trump has shown no hint of backing down. He told congressional Republicans criticizing him to focus on their own work.

“I think that honestly they should go about their business and they should do a wonderful job and work on budgets and get the budgets down and get the military the kind of money they need and lots of other things, and they shouldn’t be talking so much,” the real estate mogul said on “Face The Nation.”

“They should go out and do their job, let me do my job,” he continued.

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  1. This is how dictatorships start. "I hate the idea of banning people from that religion from the country, making the ones who are here carry special identification, and assuming their guilt because of their genetic makeup. But, sadly, we have to do it in order to protect the real Americans.

    "And so I am asking the Supreme Court to suspend the upcoming Congressional and presidential elections, grant me special executive powers and suspend civil rights for all but white Christians to root out the terrorists who threaten out way of life.

    “I don’t want to do this, and it breaks my heart that these outsiders have done this to our country, but it must be done.”

  2. Racial profiling is already here, Don. Where ya been?

  3. This is excellent news for Hillary Clinton.

  4. Ya Donald , I’m all for that if you couple it with competency tests and psychological evaluations of Presidential candidates.
    …We’re sorry Mr. Trump but you are too mentally unstable to run for president…

  5. Racial profiling. Lol. The fact that this man is disliked by only 96% of AA, and 89% of Hispanics is a miracle.

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