Presidential candidate Donald Trump sucked up all the media oxygen yet again on Monday when his campaign released a
statement calling for "a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until our country's representatives can figure out what is going on."
Many on Twitter assumed at first that the statement was a hoax, but it was
tweeted by Trump senior adviser Dan Scavino, and then posted on Trump's website and
retweeted by Trump himself, who
called it "a very important policy statement on the extraordinary influx of hatred & danger coming into our country."
Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski
confirmed to the Associated Press that the intention was for the ban to apply to "everybody," including both immigrants and tourists.
The Hill asked Trump spokeswoman Hope Hicks if this would include Muslim-American citizens who were currently abroad, Hicks replied by email: "Mr. Trump says 'everyone.'"
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Trump also retweeted several tweets from David Brody with the Christian Broadcasting Network that described his proposed Muslim ban as an act of "bravery" that would likely "give him a boost with evangelicals."