Subject: Trump Listens To Muslim Brotherhood Conspiracy Theorists
From: "Roberts, Kelly" <[email-masked]>
To: "Brinster, Jeremy" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2016 10:51:36 -0700

Trump Listens To Muslim Brotherhood Conspiracy Theorists

TRUMP CLAIMED THAT PRESIDENT OBAMA HELPED BRING THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD TO POWER

Trump Claimed President Obama "Helped Bring The Muslim Brotherhood To Power" In Egypt. TRUMP: "He [President Obama] supported the ouster of a friendly regime in Egypt that had a longstanding peace treaty with Israel, and then helped bring the Muslim Brotherhood to power in his place." [Trump Foreign Policy Speech, Washington DC, 4/27/16]

ONE OF TRUMP'S TOP FOREIGN POLICY ADVISORS HAS PREVIOUSLY ESPOUSED CONSPIRACY THEORIES ON THE PRESIDENT AND THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD

In 2012, Walid Phares Claimed Obama Administration Officials Were Partnering With The Muslim Brotherhood To Influence American Foreign Policy.  "One of them is terrorism analyst Walid Phares. A professor at the National Defense University who has worked at the conservative Hudson Institute, Phares has warned that Islamists inside the U.S. 'are here to spread Sharia.' In one 2012 appearance, Phares - who advised Mitt Romney's 2012 presidential campaign on Middle East issues - claimed that 'there are advisers and experts for this administration... engaging with and partnering with the Muslim Brotherhood' in order to influence American foreign policy.'" [Politico, 3/21/16<http://www.politico.com/story/2016/03/donald-trump-foreign-policy-advisers-221058>]

Walid Phares: "There Are Advisers And Experts For This Administration.. Engaging With And Partnering With The Muslim Brotherhood" To Influence American Policy. "One of them is terrorism analyst Walid Phares. A professor at the National Defense University who has worked at the conservative Hudson Institute, Phares has warned that Islamists inside the U.S. 'are here to spread Sharia.' In one 2012 appearance, Phares - who advised Mitt Romney's 2012 presidential campaign on Middle East issues - claimed that 'there are advisers and experts for this administration... engaging with and partnering with the Muslim Brotherhood' in order to influence American foreign policy.'" [Politico, 3/21/16<http://www.politico.com/story/2016/03/donald-trump-foreign-policy-advisers-221058>]

Trump Listed Walid Phares, Carter Page, George Papadopoulos, Joe Schmitz, And General Keith Kellogg As Members Of His Foreign Policy Team. "The Republican presidential front-runner listed for the first time five of the individuals who are part of a team, chaired by Sen. Jeff Sessions (Ala.), counseling him on foreign affairs and helping to shape his policies. Trump began the hour-long meeting by pulling out a list of some of his foreign policy advisers. 'Walid Phares, who you probably know. Ph.D., adviser to the House of Representatives. He's a counter-terrorism expert,' Trump said. 'Carter Page, Ph.D. George Papadopoulos. He's an oil and energy consultant. Excellent guy. The honorable Joe Schmitz, [was] inspector general at the Department of Defense. General Keith Kellogg. And I have quite a few more. But that's a group of some of the people that we are dealing with. We have many other people in different aspects of what we do. But that's pretty representative group.'" [Washington Post, 3/21/16<https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/03/21/donald-trump-reveals-foreign-policy-team-in-meeting-with-the-washington-post/?tid=sm_tw>]

TRUMP GETS HIS RESEARCH FROM A GROUP THAT CLAIMS THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD IS TRYING TO INFILTRATE AND OVERTHROW THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT

HEADLINE: "The Conspiracy-Theory Group Behind Trump's Muslim Stats" [Associated Press, 12/9/15<http://nypost.com/2015/12/09/the-conspiracy-theorist-group-behind-trumps-muslim-stats/>]

Trump Based His Outrageous Claim That 25 Percent Of American Muslims Supported Violence Against America As Part Of Global Jihad  On A Study Down By The Center For Security Policy, Which Thinks The Muslim Brotherhood Is Trying To Infiltrate And Overthrow The U.S. Government. "Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has cited several statistics from a 'highly respected' group to justify his proposal to temporarily bar Muslims from entering the country. They include the assertion that 25 percent of American Muslims believe violence in the United States is justified as a part of a global jihad, and that 51 percent agree Muslims in America should have the choice of being governed by US or Islamic law. But those figures come from a problematic June poll commissioned by a think tank that has long theorized that Muslims are trying to infiltrate the United States. The Center for Security Policy was founded in 1988 by Frank Gaffney, who has warned that the Muslim Brotherhood - an Islamist political party now banned in its native Egypt - is infiltrating the federal government in an attempt to overthrow it and install Islamic law in the US." [Associated Press, 12/9/15<http://nypost.com/2015/12/09/the-conspiracy-theorist-group-behind-trumps-muslim-stats/>]

TRUMP HAS REPEATEDLY SUGGESTED PRESIDENT OBAMA IS MUSLIM

HEADLINE: "Donald Trump's History Of Suggesting Obama Is A Muslim" [CNN, 9/18/15<http://www.cnn.com/2015/09/18/politics/trump-obama-muslim-birther/>]

Trump Suggested That President Obama's Birth Certificate Would Say He Was Muslim. "The effort helped fuel the so-called 'birther' conspiracy theory that held that Obama was born in Kenya -- and Trump also floated the idea that Obama's birth documents may label him a Muslim. 'He doesn't have a birth certificate. He may have one, but there's something on that, maybe religion, maybe it says he is a Muslim,' Trump told Fox News in 2011. 'I don't know. Maybe he doesn't want that.'" [CNN, 9/18/15<http://www.cnn.com/2015/09/18/politics/trump-obama-muslim-birther/>]