“I’ve been proven to be right. One-hundred-percent correct,” Trump told reporters Wednesday outside his Mar-a-Lago estate, his national security adviser, retired Gen. Michael Flynn, peering over his shoulder. “What’s happening is disgraceful.”
Less than 24 hours later, Trump’s former campaign manager and newly-named White House counselor Kellyanne Conway denied that the president-elect still supports a ban on Muslims and described Trump’s plans as focusing on country-specific vetting rather than solely on religious affiliation.
“What he says is that it’s very clear that we need better vetting policies,” Conway said on CNN on Thursday morning. “You’re going back to over a year ago and what he said about the ban versus what he said later about it when he made it much more specific and talked about countries where we know they have a higher propensity of training and exporting and in some cases harboring terrorists.”
Asked whether religion would be a criteria for screening entrants, Conway added: “That in and of itself, no.”
Join the conversation as a VIP Member