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Trump defends travel ban and lashes out at GOP critics McCain and Graham
Source: The Guardian
Trump defends travel ban and lashes out at GOP critics McCain and Graham
Alan Yuhas
Sunday 29 January 2017 22.34 GMT
Only a day after casting airports around the US into confusion and hours after his first defeat in federal court, Donald Trump and his advisers flew into a defense of his vague and chaotically enforced ban on travel from seven Muslim-majority countries.
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Earlier on Sunday, two prominent Republican senators broke with the president over his order, warning that it betrayed American values by turning away refugees and green-card holders.
“Such a hasty process risks harmful results,” John McCain and Lindsey Graham said in a joint statement. “We fear this executive order will become a self-inflicted wound in the fight against terrorism.”
In an interview with CBS’s Face the Nation, McCain said that the order “in some areas will give Isis some more propaganda”.
Shortly after releasing his official statement, Trump used Twitter to denigrate the senators, calling them “wrong” and “sadly weak on immigration”.
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Alan Yuhas
Sunday 29 January 2017 22.34 GMT
Only a day after casting airports around the US into confusion and hours after his first defeat in federal court, Donald Trump and his advisers flew into a defense of his vague and chaotically enforced ban on travel from seven Muslim-majority countries.
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Earlier on Sunday, two prominent Republican senators broke with the president over his order, warning that it betrayed American values by turning away refugees and green-card holders.
“Such a hasty process risks harmful results,” John McCain and Lindsey Graham said in a joint statement. “We fear this executive order will become a self-inflicted wound in the fight against terrorism.”
In an interview with CBS’s Face the Nation, McCain said that the order “in some areas will give Isis some more propaganda”.
Shortly after releasing his official statement, Trump used Twitter to denigrate the senators, calling them “wrong” and “sadly weak on immigration”.
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jan/29/trump-muslim-country-travel-ban-john-mccain
