Donald Trump in Scotland on Muslim Ban: I Don't Want People From 'Terror' Countries
BALMEDIE, Scotland — Donald Trump once again muddled the points of his Muslim ban, telling reporters Saturday on the 14th hole of his Aberdeen course that it "wouldn't bother" him if a Scottish Muslim came into the United States.
But he later revised his past remarks that the proposed prohibition would be a blanket ban and is more a question of proper vetting — with extra emphasis placed on certain countries.
"I don't want people coming in — I don't want people coming in from certain countries," Trump clarified to The Daily Mail while also telling several passing golfers to play through the 18th hole. "I don't want people coming in from the terror countries. You have terror countries! I don't want them, unless they're very, very strongly vetted."
When asked which countries constitute the "terror countries," Trump said: "They're pretty well-decided. All you have to do is look!"
Trump spokeswoman Hope Hicks and National Finance Chairman Steven Mnuchin attempted to further clarify outside the course clubhouse, telling reporters after Trump's multiple-hole round of press gaggles that the presumptive Republican nominee's position hasn't changed since his foreign policy speech in New Hampshire two weeks earlier.
"It is about terrorism and not about religion. It is about Muslims from countries that support terrorism," Mnuchin said.
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The Trump campaign did not immediately respond to a request for further clarification on if the Muslim ban still applied to all Muslims or if instead it now focused on "terror countries" and the vetting process.
In the immediate aftermath of the Orlando, Florida, terror attack at the Pulse nightclub, Trump seemed to pivot from his unequivocal all-inclusive ban to a suspension of immigration from countries with "proven history of terrorism against the United States, Europe, or our allies."
