Seeking to Get Back “On Message,” Trump Targets Refugees on Campaign Stop in Maine
The Boston Globe reports that Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump went back on the offensive yesterday, delivering an anti-immigrant message aimed squarely at New England. Mentioning the Boston Marathon bombers and the settlement of Somalis in Maine, he raised the prospect of terrorists entering the United States as refugees.
“We’re letting people come in from terrorist nations that shouldn’t be allowed,” Trump said. “This could be the great Trojan horse of all time.” His rhetoric fired up a crowd of nearly 1,800 in Portland’s Merrill Auditorium. Some protesters were ejected after interrupting Trump’s remarks. “At least one group hauled out of the hall by police held up pocket-size copies of the Constitution, in apparent homage to Khizr Khan, the father of a Muslim-American soldier killed in Iraq.”
KJ