Donald Trump Tells Jimmy Kimmel Muslims Support His Muslim Ban

‘I’ve had so many people call me and say thank you’

KIMMEL: "You, I assume, have a group of advisers."
TRUMP: "I do."
KIMMEL: "--That you discuss issues with before -- I assume, I don’t know, maybe you go on your own."
TRUMP: "I like to think for myself but I have people."
KIMMEL: "Did anyone try to talk you out of saying, we should temporarily ban Muslims from entering the United States?"
TRUMP: "The word is temporarily. And I have many, many friends who are Muslim. And they’re great people. And they actually, some of them, not all of them I will tell you -- some of them aren’t so thrilled with what I said. But many of them called me and they said, 'You know, Donald, you’re right, we have a problem. There is a problem.'"
KIMMEL: "But isn’t it un-American and wrong to discriminate against people based on their religion?"
TRUMP: "But Jimmy, I’m for it, but look, we have people coming into our country that are looking to do tremendous harm. You look at the when look at Paris, look at what happened in Paris. I mean, these people, they did not come from Sweden. Okay? Look at what happened to Paris, look at what happened last week in California with 14 dead, other people are going to die they’re so badly injured, we have a real problem. There’s a tremendous hatred out there there. What I want to do, you can’t solve a problem until you find out what’s the root cause. I want to find out what is the problem, what's going on? It’s — I’ve had so many people call me and say thank you. Now, if you remember, when I said that a week ago, it was bedlam. All of a sudden when and you watch has night and see people talking? They’re saying, Trump has a point, we have together down to the problem. The people that are friends of mine that call, they say "Donald, you’ve done us a tremendous service because we do have a problem and we have to find out --."
KIMMEL: "--Those may have been crank calls. Did you check the caller ID?"
TRUMP: "You know what, Jimmy, they mean mean it. We’ve got together to the bottom of it. You look at planes being blown out of the sky. There’s a lot of bad stuff happening."
KIMMEL: "There is a lot of bad stuff."

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