Donald Trump: We're 'gonna have no choice' but to shut down mosques
Donald Trump is once again stepping up to the plate to say what "nobody wants to say" — this time, about the supposed threat of mosques in the wake of the Paris terror attacks.
"Nobody wants to shut down religious institutions or anything, but you understand it," Trump said in a Tuesday interview with Fox News host Sean Hannity. "We're gonna have no choice, absolutely no choice."
Of course, he cedes, it might not actually be possible to just go around shutting down mosques. "Can you close a mosque? I mean, we do have religious freedom," Fox Business host Stuart Varney asked the real estate mogul in another interview Tuesday. Trump's response: "Well, I don't know."
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What Trump does know, however, is that Obama isn't handling things properly. "He doesn't understand anything," Trump said, slamming Obama's administration for refusing to use the term 'radical Islam' and saying that he isn't "cut out for the job." "He doesn't get it," he said.
Watch Trump's full interview with Hannity below. Becca Stanek
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