De Blasio says Trump 'dangerous' for America
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio has criticized Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump for his “un-American” rhetoric on the campaign trail, saying the billionaire businessman is “dangerous” for America.
“He has now become dangerous,” de Blasio said Tuesday in an interview on WOR-710 in New York.
“He has systematically affronted one group after another — women, Muslims, Mexican-Americans. Then he has started to say things that are positively un-American, like we are going to have Muslims on a list and not allowing people into the country based on a religious test,” the mayor added.
“What has Trump done?” he asked. “Just look at the Constitution. This goes against all of our basic values.”
In November, de Blasio blasted Trump, a native New Yorker, for suggesting that the United States should register all Muslim Americans in a special database for security reasons.
De Blasio then called Trump a “blowhard” and said his remarks “play right into ISIL’s hands.”
Trump hit back at de Blasio, calling him “the worst mayor in the US” and “probably the worst Mayor in the history” of New York City.
In his Tuesday interview on the same radio show, de Blasio said his previous comments did not fully describe Trump.
"I realized that day -- and I remember that interview well – that was really the wrong term to use, and it minimized the danger of what he's saying. And I quickly realized I had to change my language and start saying that what he’s doing is dangerous. And a lot of other voices have come to the same conclusion," the mayor stressed.
Earlier this year, de Blasio endorsed Democratic front-runner and former New York Senator Hillary Clinton for president.
Clinton and Trump have equal levels of support nationally, according to a new Rasmussen poll.
If the presidential election were held today and Clinton and Trump were the nominees of their respective parties, Clinton would have the support of 37 percent of likely voters, just one percent ahead of her Republican rival.
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