Trump: US Muslims aren’t turning in radicalized community members

Republican candidate Donald Trump says that there are American Muslims who have been radicalized, and their communities know who they are but have not turned them in.

“The problem is we have thousands of people right now in our country. You have people that were born in this country” who are susceptible to becoming “radicalized,” the reality star turned politician tells Fox News. He says there are Muslims living in the US who “know who they are” and says it is time to “turn them in.”

“You look at the people that have come to the country, and are here, and for that we need intelligence-gathering,” he also tells CNN. “We have to look at the mosques. The [Muslim] communities know the people that have the potential for blowup.”

Trump also says in a phone interview with NBC’s “Today” show that he would not support a ban on the sale of assault-style rifles in the wake of the weekend massacre at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida.

“There are millions” of such weapons already in circulation, he says, and instituting a ban not would help.

“Absolutely, I wouldn’t” support such a prohibition, the real estate mogul says, “because people need protection.”

— AP