Republican front-runner Donald Trump says he is not aware of comments made by a pastor at a Trump rally calling for Jewish Democratic candidate Bernie Sanders to convert to Christianity.
Answering a question on the comments at a press conference before his address to the AIPAC pro-Israel lobby conference, Trump said: “I didn’t hear anything about it. I don’t know anything about his religious beliefs, honestly, but I will find out.”
Pastor Mark Burns was speaking to rally-goers while waiting for Trump to arrive at the event in Hickory, North Carolina, last week.
Pastor Mark Burns speaks at a Donald Trump rally in Hickory, North Carolina, March 14, 2016. (screen capture: YouTube)
After calling for Clinton to “go to jail,” he turned to Sanders, the Jewish, independent, self-described “socialist” senator from Vermont.
“Bernie Sanders who doesn’t believe in God, how in the world we gonna let Bernie — I mean, really?” Burns said.
“Listen, Bernie gotta get saved. He gotta meet Jesus. He gotta have a comin’-to-Jesus meeting.”
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