Trump campaign staff redirects, then restores, mention of Muslim ban from website [update#26]

[WebGuru]

Donald Trump’s team has removed the statement on his website to ban all Muslims from the US.

On the same night that millions of votes were pouring in for the real estate mogul turned politician, the page linking to his December statement regarding a temporary and complete Muslim has been removed.

The page now redirects to his a page encouraging voters to donate to his campaign.

The page was available on the morning of the election on 8 November, according to online caches. But the redirected was added later the same night.

Caches like the Wayback Machine work by crawling websites intermittently and making a copy of what it finds there. As such, it's not possible to say exactly what time the redirect was added, but only that the change had been made between those two times it was crawled.

Mr Trump was widely condemned for his call shortly after the terrorist attacks in Paris in November 2015 to temporarily ban all Muslims until he figured out "what the hell was going on".

Mr Trump and his allies have consistently defended the ban, insisting the measure was about Americans’ "safety" and not about discriminating against religion. Videos and speeches defending the ban remain on the Trump campaign website.

The Trump campaign could not be immediately contacted.

It is not the first time the Trump team has scrubbed pages from its websites.

After speculation rose that Melania Trump did not not complete her university degree, her biography page was taken down and started to redirect to Mr Trump’s golf course.

Mr Trump won the presidential election on 8 November with 279 electoral votes.



Source: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...rants-website-statement-removed-a7408466.html

 

[WebGuru]

Time for Mr President to ask Youtube and other video services to remove some of his videos. These statements are only good for election campaigns to target specific audience.

 

[shaz619]

That's good to see, hopefully he can focus on the real issues at hand now that he has won; I had said before, half the stuff he says he doesn't even believe but it was more to do with getting the bigot vote as Americans are mostly thick.

 

[WebGuru]

That's good to see, hopefully he can focus on the real issues at hand now that he has won; I had said before, half the stuff he says he doesn't even believe but it was more to do with getting the bigot vote as Americans are mostly thick.

I am surprised to see no WWE video post from you after the victory Remember Trump appeared on WWE a few years ago and shaved the head of Vince McMahon Yesterday WWE stock jumped 5% after Donald Trump victory.

 

[JaDed]

As expected,now people protesting need to just accept the result and protest after he takes a decision which they don't support.

 

[anuk]

he stopped saying muslims will be banned months ago.

 

[Indiafan]

I don't think the real danger was of Trump or the government doing anything. There are lots of checks in place. The real danger always will be his extreme supporters taking things in their hand and attacking people

But then I was wrong about Trump winning so who knows

 

[The_KING]

Like he was ever going to ban Muslims. Trump is a very clever man and he knew what he needed to say to get the Americans on his side. All the morons that voted for him, he played them very well.

 

[shaz619]

I am surprised to see no WWE video post from you after the victory Remember Trump appeared on WWE a few years ago and shaved the head of Vince McMahon Yesterday WWE stock jumped 5% after Donald Trump victory.

LOL Vince is no doubt must be absolutely delighted with the election result, he's always been on good terms with Trump and even has a president now in their hall of fame.

 

[AlphaFighter]

America will suffer massive economic consequences if they banned Muslims in the US and antagonized relations with Muslim countries on average.

 

[sjahmed23]

He's not going to say anything now but god forbid another muslim kid with a gun goes on a shooting spree then watch all the things he will do and say.

 

[Slog]

I don't think the real danger was of Trump or the government doing anything. There are lots of checks in place. The real danger always will be his extreme supporters taking things in their hand and attacking people

But then I was wrong about Trump winning so who knows

There are literally no checks

Senate is republican
House is republican

And when he appoints the SC justice the SC court will be conservative

 

[Slog]

America will suffer massive economic consequences if they banned Muslims in the US and antagonized relations with Muslim countries on average.

Not really

They aren't AS dependant on gulf oil countries as before

 

[anuk]

although there will be no blanket banning based on religion, i'm pretty sure he will go ahead with making it very difficult for people of certain countries like syria to visit america. he's pretty much got a mandate from the americans to do so and the government is all republican. u better hope there are no pakistani terrorists attacking america anytime soon.

 

[Nikhil_cric]

May not ban but i think it will be harder for Muslims to get citizenship perhaps?

 

[DW44]

I am surprised to see no WWE video post from you after the victory Remember Trump appeared on WWE a few years ago and shaved the head of Vince McMahon Yesterday WWE stock jumped 5% after Donald Trump victory.

Let's take a minute to let it sink in that the man in the toupee is now the most powerful man in the world with the final say on how and when the largest stockpile of WMDs on earth is used, commander in chief of the most poweful military on earth and president of a nation that accounts for a full fifth of the entire world's economy. Some of the worlds I've created in my head under the influence of some very questionable substances make more sense than the real world today.

 

[Markhor]

There are literally no checks

Senate is republican
House is republican

And when he appoints the SC justice the SC court will be conservative

[MENTION=138463]Slog[/MENTION] - as someone who's a moderate Republican (correct me if I'm wrong) - where do you stand on all this ?

1) Trump's election

2) How it may signal a transformation of the Republican Party to a hard-right, nationalistic, anti-immigration party a la Le Pen, Farage etc and whether you're comfortable with the direction your party is taking. Have the Tea Party crowd won ?

 

[adit_sh]

Like he was ever going to ban Muslims. Trump is a very clever man and he knew what he needed to say to get the Americans on his side. All the morons that voted for him, he played them very well.

So u r saying those who voted for him actually wants ban on muslims ? but then that is majority of Americans !!

 

[Slog]

[MENTION=138463]Slog[/MENTION] - where do you stand on all this ?

1) Trump's election

2) How it may signal a transformation of the Republican Party to a hard-right, nationalistic, anti-immigration party a la Le Pen, Farage etc and whether you're comfortable with the direction your party is taking. Have the Tea Party crowd won ?

I understand why he was elected. Hillary was not an inspiring candidate and she is totally embroiled in a littany of scandals. Some of these were exaggerated but there's no doubt that there's a history of corruption and shady dealings with her. And worst of all she is the sort of the poster child of the out of touch Washington establishment which most of America barring the elite and highly educated people hate. Due to globalization and trade deals a lot of the folks outside the major cities and in semi rural areas have lost their jobs in the past decades and these jobs arent coming back. So a candidate just needed to hit on this point repeatedly and the message would resonate and win him/her support. Trump did it perfectly and it was great for him that he was against Hillary Clinton who just couldn't run on this same platform. While I personally am no fan of Bernie Sanders' but I think he would have performed better in this cycle. The worst thing was Hillary's own crimes sort of cancelled out Trump's issues for a lot of the folks. With Bernie, it would have been a policy debate and regardless of the somewhat loony policies' he espouses its not like Trump was setting the world alight with his policy proposals.

Personally I think Trump is correct on many of the issues which face America. There arent enough good jobs especially for the middle class. Manufacturing jobs are gone. The infrastructure is crumbling. There is anemic growth. And on and on. However, the issue is that I genuinely do not think Trump really has any solid policies to combat these. Some issues which the populace keeps harping on won't be solved like they want it to. Manufacturing jobs aren't coming back and those supporters of Trump will be in for a rude shock. There doesn't seem to be any realistic plan for replacing Obamacare. This was a populist movement simply. However, I don't think he will lead USA to ruin or some zombie apocalypse as some doomsday scenarios being put out seem to suggest.

Why I didn't want Trump to win is simply this:

Donald Trump is not a racist and not a bigot. But he is a deeply opportunistic man who will do anything to get what he wants. He courted the white supremacist vote and gave a free pass to bigotry, sexism and racism. He won't follow up on any of his proposals. But what it does do is that it will and has emboldened the right wing lunatics and the neo-Nazi type deplorables. Similarly because all branches of government are Republican now, the right wingers will pursue the anti abortion policies, shut down any gun control reform and bring up barriers to marriage equality. And because he is an opportunist, he will let these happen and actively support them if it somehow helps him in getting what he wants. I dont think he is bigot but the people he emboldens are a problem.

It's kinda funny but I think in a different world Hillary would have been a perfect Republican candidate. She clearly is right of center and most left positions she took were to combat Sanders in the primaries. Also her stances regarding the financial system are definitely more palatable to me then even Trump's.

It's too early to predict where the Republican party is going though. The thing is that Trump's views are not in line with the Republican establishment and I do think he doesn't really care much about what the base thinks to follow through.

 

[Vorador]

Like he was ever going to ban Muslims. Trump is a very clever man and he knew what he needed to say to get the Americans on his side. All the morons that voted for him, he played them very well.

^ This.

Trump is the perfect demagogue. He knew how to play the masses by utilizing his populist persona, which the average Joe can't help but be attracted to. He targets the plebs for votes. Hillary tries to talk too much sense, acting all sophisticated and educated to a dumb nation. That was never going to help her case.

I doubt Trump the President will be as crazy, ignorant and hateful as the persona he maintained as Trump the candidate.

 

[WebGuru]

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">If Donald Trump takes people's anger and turns it against Muslims, Hispanics, African Americans and women, we will be his worst nightmare.</p>— Bernie Sanders (@SenSanders) <a href="https://twitter.com/SenSanders/status/796785451713593344">November 10, 2016</a></blockquote>
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[Pakistanian]

If Dems wanna beat trump, they got go all out liberal against him. Can't field a semi-liberal establishment puppet.

 

[anuk]

If Dems wanna beat trump, they got go all out liberal against him. Can't field a semi-liberal establishment puppet.

i don't think an all liberal dem candidate will be able to beat an establishment gop candidate. america is a very conservative country.

 

[Pakistanian]

i don't think an all liberal dem candidate will be able to beat an establishment gop candidate. america is a very conservative country.

I live here, Idk if you've been here. If the Dems have any chance of beating a white supremacist it's by going all out liberal, like the nightmare of the far right. Even if they lose, they'd lose with integrity unlike Killary. Also an all out liberal candidate like Sanders would beaten Trump cause he also had that image of being "anti-establishment".

 

[anuk]

I live here, Idk if you've been here. If the Dems have any chance of beating a white supremacist it's by going all out liberal, like the nightmare of the far right. Even if they lose, they'd lose with integrity unlike Killary. Also an all out liberal candidate like Sanders would beaten Trump cause he also had that image of being "anti-establishment".

white supremacist is unfair. unless u think majority of the american population also like supporting a white supremacist.

 

[Abdullah719]

The Muslim ban is back on his website.

President-elect Donald Trump’s campaign staff temporarily redirected the webpage detailing his controversial proposal to temporarily ban Muslim immigration into the United States, one of the most divisive and controversial policy ideas of his campaign, but swiftly sought to restore it after reporter inquiries Thursday.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...website/?postshare=1851478808942742&tid=ss_tw

 

[Pakistanian]

white supremacist is unfair. unless u think majority of the american population also like supporting a white supremacist.

Haha you just got owned. Hillary won the popular vote, most Americans voted for her. Trump only won the electoral college in which only a handful of states matter. Also 87% of Trump's votes came from White people I don't see how that's most Americans.

 

[anuk]

Haha you just got owned. Hillary won the popular vote, most Americans voted for her. Trump only won the electoral college in which only a handful of states matter. Also 87% of Trump's votes came from White people I don't see how that's most Americans.

yes u are right. hillary did get 250 thousand more votes.

but i don't see how white people voting for trump makes him or his voters white supremacists. people vote for policies that matter to them. sure there might have been a few racists that voted for trump. equally there were radical muslims and black/hispanic gang members that voted hillary.

also i'm not sure about ur 87% white vote stat. can u give me a link.