“Jason, how would you respond to that?” Trump asked, gesturing to the chief legal officer of the Trump Organization, Jason Greenblatt.

A Forward reporter had asked Trump what phrase he would use to describe the land east of Israel’s Green Line, which demarcates the country’s pre-1967 borders and is variously referred to as the West Bank, occupied territories, Judea and Samaria and Palestine.

It was a question meant to elicit a specific response on a politically freighted issue. Essentially, Trump didn’t answer.

The GOP candidate responded that there are “many words that I’ve seen to describe it,” before deferring to Greenblatt.