Donald Trump warned Tuesday that there will be
additional terror attacks in the U.S. if his temporary ban on Muslim
immigration is not put in place.
"You're going to have many more World Trade
Centers if you don't solve it -- many, many more and probably beyond the World
Trade Center," Trump told CNN's Chris Cuomo in a contentious interview on
"New Day."
A defiant Trump said he believes that there are
already terrorists in America eager to harm the country.
"They want our buildings to come down; they
want our cities to be crushed," he said, noting that the Trade Centers
were attacked twice and citing last week's shootings in San Bernardino.
"They are living within our country. And many of them want to come from
outside our country."
Cuomo repeatedly pushed back against Trump's plan
as not what America stands for and the host noted that most of the developer's
Republican rivals have criticized it.
Trump said he didn't care what the GOP thinks
about his call to pause Muslim immigration.
"We can close our eyes," Trump said.
"We can put the blinders on, but I don't choose to do that."
While Trump repeatedly said his plan would be
"temporary," he did not explain how long it would last or provide any
details about it would work.
"It's until the country's representatives can
figure out what's going on," he said.
Trump said his policy preventing Muslims from
coming to the U.S. is a "common sense" approach to preventing a
Paris-like attack on the U.S.
"I have common sense. I know what has to be
done, and we don't want to have a situation like Paris. And we don't want to
have another World Trade Center," he said.
"We don't want that. We need intelligence in
this country. We need a certain toughness in this country or we're going to end
up like a lot of the other places and we're not going to have a country
left."
The businessman also criticized President Barack
Obama for refusing to acknowledge that America is "at war with radical
Islamic terrorism."
"We have a President that made a fool out of
himself the other night," Trump said, referring to Obama's Sunday night
address to the nation from the Oval Office. "He doesn't even mention the
term. He refuses to use the term. Nobody understands why."
"If you're not going to even use the term,
you're never going to solve the problems," he added.
Trump further claimed that Obama administration
has been welcoming only Muslim refugees from Syria, not Christians -- which
Cuomo told him was untrue.
"If you happen to be a Christian in Syria,
it's almost impossible to come into this country," Trump said. "If
you're a Muslim, you can get in."
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