Republican front-runner Donald Trump fired back at Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton after she said ISIS was using video of his comments about Muslims and Islam as a recruiting tool, reports CNN.
During the Democratic presidential debate Saturday night, Clinton alleged Trump was “becoming ISIS’ best recruiter” based on his call to ban Muslims from entering the country, and other recent comments.
“They are going to people showing videos of Donald Trump insulting Islam and Muslims in order to recruit more radical jihadists,” the former secretary of state said.
On NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Sunday, Trump dismissed Clinton’s criticism, knocking her as a “liar” and “weak.”
“It’s just another Hillary lie,” Trump said. “She lies like crazy about everything—whether it’s trips where she was being gunned down in a helicopter, or an airplane. She’s a liar and everybody knows that.”
Hours later, Trump reiterated his comments up in a tweet, stating, “Hillary Clinton lied when she said that “ISIS is using video of Donald Trump as a recruiting tool.” This was fact checked by @FoxNews: FALSE”
CNN’s Reality Check Team looked into this statement and found that although it is difficult to track all of ISIS’ communication, there is no current evidence that backs up Clinton’s claims about a specific video that features Trump. Meanwhile, some 200 protesters gathered Sunday at Donald Trump’s New York City headquarters, accusing presidential hopeful of “fascism” and “racism” following his call that Muslims be barred from entering the United States.
“Say no to fascism. Say no to Trump,” read placards held by some of the demonstrators outside the “Trump Tower” building—the Fifth Avenue offices for the real estate magnate’s business empire, which also doubles as his campaign headquarters.
A group of Muslim demonstrators, meanwhile, kneeled in prayer outside the building as part of their protests.
“We started holding our protests in July, when Trump said Mexicans were drug dealers, criminals and rapists,” one of the demonstrators, Jaime Gonzalez, 34, told AFP.
“Today we’re here because his offensive remarks about the Muslim community,” he said. Counter-demonstrations were also held by a small group of Trump supporters outside the building.