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KamaAina

(78,249 posts)
Tue Dec 8, 2015, 02:09 PM Dec 2015

Donald Trump Says He Might Have Supported Japanese Internment

http://time.com/4140050/donald-trump-muslims-japanese-internment/

Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump told TIME that he does not know whether he would have supported or opposed the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II.

“I would have had to be there at the time to tell you, to give you a proper answer,” he said during a recent interview in his office in New York City. “I certainly hate the concept of it. But I would have had to be there at the time to give you a proper answer.”

Trump added that he believes wartime sometimes requires difficult choices. “It’s a tough thing. It’s tough,” he said. “But you know war is tough. And winning is tough. We don’t win anymore. We don’t win wars anymore. We don’t win wars anymore. We’re not a strong country anymore. We’re just so off.”

Pressed numerous times during an appearance Monday morning on MSNBC to say whether or not the internment violated American values, Trump refused to respond.


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Donald Trump Says He Might Have Supported Japanese Internment (Original Post) KamaAina Dec 2015 OP
I guess he forgot what we did to Germans like him during WWII 951-Riverside Dec 2015 #1
Let's make America great again! HassleCat Dec 2015 #2
Asian American community needs to hear this mainer Dec 2015 #3
So he is left with just some white boys at this point.... winstars Dec 2015 #5
He's crazy LittleBlue Dec 2015 #4
 

951-Riverside

(7,234 posts)
1. I guess he forgot what we did to Germans like him during WWII
Tue Dec 8, 2015, 02:12 PM
Dec 2015


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internment_of_German_Americans#World_War_II

...During those days people would be questing his loyalties to America especially since he first got married to a Czech woman, then a Slovenian woman and says that he wants to negotiate with Putin (a former KGB agent).

So, I wonder if Donald Drumpf really wants to return to those "good ol' days".
 

HassleCat

(6,409 posts)
2. Let's make America great again!
Tue Dec 8, 2015, 02:44 PM
Dec 2015

Round up people different from ourselves and put them in a camp. We can start with Muslims, of course. Perhaps transgendered people might be next? Then citizens of suspicious countries. Then US citizens who originally came from suspicious countries. Then children of immigrants from suspicious countries. Then people who converted from Islam. Then people who have read the Q'ran. Then people who have not read the Bible. Let's see... who's left? Oh, just you and me. And I'm not so sure about you.

 

LittleBlue

(10,362 posts)
4. He's crazy
Tue Dec 8, 2015, 02:50 PM
Dec 2015

Even his base knows that Japanese-Americans were loyal and highly decorated during WW2..

What a complete buffoon.

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