IMMIGRATION/TRAVEL BAN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “On Monday [5-8-17] morning, President Trump’s campaign website featured his December 2015 statement about ‘preventing Muslim immigration.’
Later that afternoon, it did not.
The deletion of the statement appeared to come after Cecilia Vega of ABC News asked at Monday’s White House press briefing about the statement: ‘If this White House is no longer calling this a Muslim ban as it did initially, why does the president’s website still explicitly call for ‘preventing Muslim immigration’?’
Trump spokesman Sean Spicer replied that he wasn’t aware of what was on dthe campaign’s website and referred questions about the statement to campaign staff.
‘I know how we’ve talked about this from the first day of this administration: as a travel ban that’s in this country’s national security interests, as to make sure that people who are coming in here, are coming in here with the right motive and reason,’ he said. ‘We’ve been very consistent.’ “
-Jessica Eptepa, “‘Preventing Muslim immigration’ statement disappears from Trump’s campaign site,” USA Today, May 8, 2017 3:32pm