Trump defends Modi on religious freedom amid protests in India
President Trump on Tuesday offered a defense of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the subject of religious freedom amid violent protests over a new law that gives citizenship to non-Muslims fleeing religious persecution from other countries.
Trump insisted that Modi, who hosted the U.S. president at a huge rally in India on Monday, “wants people to have religious freedom.”
“The prime minister was incredible in what he told me. He wants people to have religious freedom and very strongly,” Trump told reporters at a press conference toward the end of his two-day trip to India.
“He said that, in India, they have worked very hard to have great and open religious freedom. And if you look back and you look at what’s going on, relative to other places especially, but they have really worked hard on religious freedom,” Trump continued.
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/484477-trump-defends-modi-on-religious-freedom-amid-protests-in-india
John Oliver talked about this his last show
