Ann Coulter defends Donald Trump from controversy over guy who called Obama a Muslim foreigner
In an interview with Business Insider last Friday, Coulter said Trump handled the question like a polished politician. She also speculated that the questioner was a "liberal plant."
Trump instead answered the second part of the man's question about Muslim "training camps" in the US.
"We're going to be looking at a lot of different things, and a lot of people are saying that and saying that bad things are happening out there. We're going to be looking at that and plenty of other things," Trump told the man.
Trump's campaign initially claimed he did not hear the first part of his question, but that did little to quell the controversy. Presidential rivals, the White House, and many political observers criticized Trump, who memorably led a 2011 charge calling on Obama to release his birth certificate.
Regardless, Coulter said politicians on both sides of the aisle are going to have controversial and loud supporters. And she was impressed with how Trump responded to the man in the moment.
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