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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Sat Jan 28, 2017, 02:51 PM Jan 2017

President Trump's Muslim ban excludes countries linked to his sprawling business empire

Source: New York Daily News

Saturday, January 28, 2017, 11:03 AM

BY CHRIS SOMMERFELDT


President Trump’s most recent executive order effectively bans citizens of seven Muslim-majority countries from entering the U.S. for at least 90 days — but some Muslim countries were spared from the order's blacklist, even though they have deep-seated ties to terrorism.

Conspicuously, Trump doesn't hold any business interests in any of the countries on the list, but holds major stakes in several of those excluded from it, records show.

Friday’s executive order, signed at the Pentagon, suspends the issuing of U.S. visas or travel permits to people from Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen.

Not a single American was killed on U.S. soil by citizens from any of those countries between 1975 and 2015, according to statistics tallied by the conservative-leaning Cato Institute.

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/trump-muslim-ban-excludes-countries-linked-businesses-article-1.2957956

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President Trump's Muslim ban excludes countries linked to his sprawling business empire (Original Post) DonViejo Jan 2017 OP
Ugh every day this gets worse and worse. Initech Jan 2017 #1
Some one may blow up a Trump Tower somewhere in retaliation. katmondoo Jan 2017 #2
Yeah...not IF, but WHEN. And then what? PearliePoo2 Jan 2017 #3
Trump has business in Indonesia and Pakistan, too mainer Jan 2017 #4
And Pakistan's Terrorism Problems... TomCADem Jan 2017 #6
I'm sure his supporters are outraged.... dhill926 Jan 2017 #5

PearliePoo2

(7,768 posts)
3. Yeah...not IF, but WHEN. And then what?
Sat Jan 28, 2017, 03:22 PM
Jan 2017

How will the ill-tempered, maniac, man-child react?
Does anyone think a sociopath who LIVES for revenge will behave properly? I don't.

mainer

(12,022 posts)
4. Trump has business in Indonesia and Pakistan, too
Sat Jan 28, 2017, 03:22 PM
Jan 2017

which explains why they're not on the banned-countries list. Even though Indonesia has the largest Muslim-majority population in the world.

TomCADem

(17,387 posts)
6. And Pakistan's Terrorism Problems...
Sun Jan 29, 2017, 12:04 AM
Jan 2017

...are arguably as severe as any country on the "banned" list.

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