Politico
By Nick Gass
September 9, 2015
The United States should take in some refugees from Syria, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said Tuesday night.
"I
hate the concept of it, but on a humanitarian basis, you have to,"
Trump said in his first Fox News appearance in two weeks, appearing on
"The O'Reilly Factor."
"This
was started by President Obama when he didn't go in and do the job he
should have when he drew the line in the sand, which turned out to be a
very artificial line,"
Trump said in reference to Obama's red-line warning to Syrian leader
Bashar Assad in 2013. "But you know, it's living in hell in Syria.
There's no question about it. They're living in hell, and something has
to be done."
Asked
if he would have removed Assad, Trump said "something should have
happened" after it was revealed that he used sarin gas on his own
people.
"Probably,
in retrospect, they should have gone in and done something with Assad.
But you know, Assad is not our biggest problem because Assad and ISIS
are actually fighting,"
Trump explained. "So now what we're doing is we're fighting ISIS and
ISIS wants to fight Assad. Some people could say, 'Why don't you just
let them fight out and you take out the remnants?'"
On
the domestic front, Trump reiterated that Kentucky county clerk Kim
Davis should not be in her particular line of work if she does not want
to issue marriage licenses
to same-sex marriage licenses.
"It
was too bad she had to be put in jail, and I'm a very, very strong
believer in Christianity and religion, but I will say that this was not
the right job for her because
we had a ruling from the Supreme Court, and we are a country of laws,
and you have to do what the Supreme Court ultimately — whether you like
the decision or not, and it was a 5-4 decision," he continued. "Whether
you like the decision or not, you have to
go along with the Supreme Court. So that's the way it is."
Asked his opinion on the Black Lives Matter movement, Trump was blunt.
"Well
I think it's very simple: All lives matter. Whether it's black or white
and how they're getting away with this murder," he said.
Elaborating on the movement itself, Trump said the people involved are "looking for trouble."
"I
looked at a couple of people that were interviewed from the group. I
saw them with hate coming down the street last week talking about cops
and police and what should
be done to 'em, and that was not good. And I think it's a disgrace that
they're getting away with it," he remarked, adding, "It's disgraceful
the way they're being catered to by the Democrats, and it's going to end
up kicking them you know where. I don't think
it's going to end up good."
Those Democrats "are unfit to run for office, in my opinion," Trump added.
O'Reilly
then played a clip of former Secretary of State Colin Powell, a
Republican, saying that he did not mind the slogan or the movement.
Trump's response: "He's wrong. He's totally wrong."
If all lives matter, O'Reilly then asked Trump, why do you not support cutting off funding from Planned Parenthood?
Trump's response: I never said that. "You have bad researchers, what can I tell you?"
“A
lot of people say it’s an abortion clinic. I’m opposed to that. And I
wouldn’t do any funding as long as they are performing abortions. And
they are performing abortions.
So I would be opposed to funding. I would be totally opposed to
funding," Trump said.
But
the Republican candidate told Fox News' Sean Hannity last month that
"we have to look at the positive" aspects of Planned Parenthood's work
and said that abortions
are a "fairly small part of what they do."
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