Has Trump dropped the Muslim ban already? Statement on controversial policy disappears from website shortly after election 

  •  In December 2015 Donald Trump suggested total ban on Muslim migrants
  •  The promise has suddenly disappeared from the Trump/Pence website

By Chris Summers For Mailonline

Published: 08:12 EST, 10 November 2016 | Updated: 09:19 EST, 10 November 2016

Donald Trump's controversial plan for a total ban on Muslim immigrants may have been dropped already after the statement mysteriously vanished from his website.

The statement: 'Donald J. Trump is 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' had been on the site since December. 

But hours after he was confirmed as the 45th U.S. President it suddenly disappeared.

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The controversial statement has disappeared from the Trump/Pence campaign website 

Trump is due to visit Barack Obama at the White House today to discuss a 'smooth transition of power'. 

The outgoing President traditionally updates the President-Elect on important foreign affairs issues and confidential matters of national security, aswell as handing out a few crumbs of advice.

Obama might be tempted to go further and urge Trump to drop a few more of his more left-field ideas, such as the wall along the southern border, paid for by the Mexicans themselves.   

Khizr Khan, whose son, Humayun Khan was one of 14 American Muslims who died serving in the U.S. Army in the 10 years after the 9/11 attacks, took Donald Trump to task after he proposed a ban on Muslims entering the U.S.

Trump had said in the statement on his website: 'Until we are able to determine and understand this problem and the dangerous threat it poses, our country cannot be the victims of horrendous attacks by people that believe only in Jihad, and have no sense of reason or respect for human life.'

But it appears Trump may have now realized the total ban on Muslims - which had been criticized for being racist and xenophobic - was not practical.

It had also failed to recognize that some Islamic terrorists, like Omar Mateen, who killed 49 people at a gay nightclub in Florida in June, were themselves born in the United States and the ban would not have prevented their violent acts. 

Among those who had spoken out against it was the Muslim Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan. 

The total ban on Muslim immigrants has been dropped, but the plan for a Mexican wall remain

But the ban on Muslims had been popular with many Trump supporters, especially in the Midwest and in the Bible belt. 

As the campaign progressed Trump had retreated from the ban, saying he wanted a ban on immigration from countries 'with connections to terrorism', rather than Muslims specifically.

But while that statement was probably targeted at refugees from Syria and Iraq, others argued that countries 'with connections to terrorism' could include France, Belgium and even Britain, as all have been 'infected' by Islamist terrorist cells.

 

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