Trump Campaign Manager Promotes Plan To Defeat ‘Islam’ (VIDEO)

Kellyanne Conway, campaign manager for Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, right, and press secretary Hope Hicks watch during a campaign rally, Friday, Oct. 14, 2016, in Charlotte, N.C. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)
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Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway strayed from her candidate’s sober, even-minded approach to combating terrorism on Wednesday, saying that the Republican nominee would finally “defeat Islam” if elected president.

In an interview with MSNBC’s Stephanie Ruhle, Conway attempted to make the point that the media was ignoring her candidates’ real policy proposals.

“I’m saying that he also is giving plans. He gave a 10-point Veterans Administration reform plan, 5-point plan to defeat Islam, 4-point plan for middle-class tax relief. Yesterday was his multi-point plan to, I think, as he says, ‘drain the swamp.’”

Conway clarified to the Daily Mail after the interview that she was referring to Trump’s plan to defeat “radical Islamic terrorism.”

“He released that – I’m going to say – [in] July, right before or after the convention. He had a big speech about it,” she said. “His five-point plan for defeating radical Islamic terrorism. It’s probably on the website… but he released it months ago.”

It may have been a rhetorical slip for Conway, but the rhetoric wasn’t totally alien to the Trump campaign. In December of last year, Trump announced his support of a “total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States.” He later clarified that the plan would not preclude Muslim U.S. citizens, including members of the military, from returning home after traveling or being deployed abroad. Now, he calls the program “extreme vetting.”

In March, during an interview with CNN’s Anderson Cooper, Trump said “I think Islam hates us.”

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  1. Avatar for lew lew says:

    Clearly she has been hanging around those Radical Christian Terrorists from Kansas.

    You know, the ones that if we just called them by their proper names would just surrender!

  2. Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway strayed from her candidate’s
    sober, even-minded approach to combating terrorism on Wednesday, saying
    that the Republican nominee would finally “defeat Islam” if elected
    president.

    Islam isn’t an enemy; it’s a religion. It’s a system of beliefs. It’s sort of like claiming that Trump is going to defeat Existentialism.

  3. “Draining the swamp”—there’s a real chestnut.
    Maybe we can “lance the boil” too.
    She forgot to mention the international bankers.

  4. Don’t worry, Kellyanne; your supporters heard you loud and clear.

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