9. When He Said He Isn’t Morally Obligated To Defend The President
Even to this day, seven years into Barack Obama‘s presidency, there are still people who believe he is Muslim. Former Republican presidential nominee John McCain defended the president back in 2008 during a rally and corrected someone who made the incorrect assertion that he was an “Arab.” But this is something Donald Trump sees no purpose in doing. At a town hall rally earlier this year, that same assertion was made by someone in the audience and Trump didn’t bother correcting him. Not only that, Trump defended his decision to say nothing, stating that he has no moral obligation to defend the president. Trump went on to say that if someone had said something slanderous or untrue about him, Obama would not defend him. Then pointing the finger at the media, claimed that he would have been painted as someone infringing on that man’s freedom of speech if he were to correct him.
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