The Donald Trump campaign has removed the statement on his website to ban all Muslims from the US.
On the same night that millions of votes
were pouring in for the real estate mogul turned politician, the page
linking to his December statement regarding a temporary and complete
Muslim has been removed.
The page now redirects to a page encouraging voters to donate to his campaign.
The page was available on the morning of
the election on 8 November, according to online caches. But the
redirected was added later the same night.
Caches like the Wayback Machine work by
crawling websites intermittently and making a copy of what it finds
there. As such, it’s not possible to say exactly what time the redirect
was added, but only that the change had been made between those two
times it was crawled.
Mr. Trump was widely condemned for his
call shortly after the terrorist attacks in Paris in November 2015 to
temporarily ban all Muslims until he figured out “what the hell was
going on”.
Mr. Trump and his allies have
consistently defended the ban, insisting the measure was about
Americans’ “safety” and not about discriminating against religion.
Videos and speeches defending the ban remain on the Trump campaign
website.
The Trump campaign could not be immediately contacted.
It is not the first time the Trump team has scrubbed pages from its websites.
After speculation rose that Melania Trump did not not complete her university degree, her biography page was taken down and started to redirect to Mr Trump’s golf course.
Mr Trump won the presidential election on 8 November with 279 electoral votes.
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