Krauthammer on Muslim Question at Trump Rally: Trump Must Disavow Birtherism

CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER: "The reason people are looking at it is because he's the frontrunner. And that was a very nasty question. Now, you can explain it away -- if you didn't hear it, he didn't hear it. Although a lot of journalists did. Second, you could say this is a guy who hasn't done townhalls. He does a lot of interviews with the press but hasn't had the free-wheeling atmosphere. I believe this is the second one he ever did. A more practiced politician would have understood or immediately sort of undermined and denied the premise. His problem, however, he could have been dismissed with another politician. The problem is that Trump himself had trumpeted, if you like, the birther theories, the idea that he wasn't an American, he wasn't Christian awhile ago. He hasn't, as far as I know, directly repented that. I think the real issue here is somebody in the press -- he talks to the press every six hours -- somebody in the press should simply say, 'Where do you stand on where the president is from and whether he's a Muslim?' Trump had dismissed it, saying 'I'm not talk about that.' I think now he needs to answer that question and he can simply, 'I looked at the evidence and I was wrong.' But he doesn't say that very easily."