Trump Faces Backlash Over Muslim Tirade

Section:GDN BE PaGe:1 Edition Date:151209 Edition:01 Zone:S Sent at 8/12/2015 21:30 cYanmaGentaYellowblack What have Popcorn tinsel Aidan Gillen Muslims Have a fashionable From Game ever done Christmas! of Thrones to James for the US? Joyce Well, let’s start with Donald Trump’s hotel all in g2 £1.80 (Ch. Islands £2.20) Wednesday 09.12.15 Published in London and Manchester theguardian.com Return to the Bataclan Rationing in Trump faces NHS hitting patient care, backlash over say doctors Denis Campbell Muslim tirade Health policy editor Patients are being denied mental healthcare, new hips and knees, and drugs to boost their recovery from illnesses – Presidential frontrunner disowned by including cancer – as the NHS increasingly rations treatments to try to overcome its Republican leaders as outrage grows growing cash crisis. A survey of doctors for the Guardian Tom McCarthy New York David Cameron issued a statement say- reveal ed that three-quarters said they had Ben Jacobs Washington ing he completely disagreed with Trump’s seen care rationed in their area in the past comments on barring Muslims from the year, including treatments such as speech Ryan Shelton Ann Arbor, Michigan US and regarded his stance as “divisive, therapy, operations to remove varicose The Republican presidential candidate unhelpful and quite simply wrong”. veins, Botox to help mobility in children Donald Trump was disowned by his own Trump made his comments in the wake with cerebral palsy and even potentially party’s top leadership yesterday and of the attack in San Bernardino, Califor- life-saving stem cell transplant surgery. faced calls to drop his White House bid nia, last week, perpetrated by a suppos- It also found disabled children hav- as the world reacted with outrage at his edly radicalised Muslim couple, who shot ing to use ill-fi tting wheelchairs, teenage call for a “total and complete shutdown 14 people dead at a health centre. girls banned from accessing medication to of Muslims” . But for perhaps the first time in the tackle male-style hair growth and women The billionaire frontrunner’s stance election cycle, Trump, who has peppered unable to access surgery to have breast tipped the Republican presidential race his campaign with controversial state- enlarge ments or reduc tions as a result of into chaos, with party leaders, from the ments, seemed at risk of being drowned growing restrictions in England . chair of the Republican National Com- out by voices raised on all sides in protest Medical organisations said the fi ndings mittee to the former vice-president against him. showed patients were paying the price Dick Cheney, condemning his ideas as The White House, Hillary Clinton, because an underfunded NHS was hav- “un-American”. Cheney, and rivals for the Republican ing to deny or delay care . Trump toured the US television studios 2016 presidential nomination all lined up Dr Mark Porter, leader of the British in unrepentant form yesterday, unmoved to criticise him. Medical Association, said: “The NHS is by the gale of criticism that followed his Clinton, the frontrunner for the Dem- being forced to choose which patients to speech aboard the USS Yorktown Mon- ocratic party’s nomination, tweeted that treat, with some facing delays in treat- day evening. He acknowledged that his Trump’s idea was “reprehensible, preju- ment and others being denied some treat- proposal was “probably not politically diced and divisive”. Cheney said the ideas ments entirely. This survey lays bare the correct”, but then whipped up a cheering went “ against everything we stand for and extreme pressure across the system and crowd and said: “ But. I. Don’t. Care. ” believe in”, and the White House spokes- the distress caused to patients as a result.” He added: “We need a total and com- man Josh Earnest said Trump was “seek- Almost four in five (78%) of the 749 plete shutdown of Muslims entering the ing to tap into a darker side, a darker ele- doctors in England who took part in the United States while we fi gure out what ment, and try to play on people’s fears in survey – conducted for the Guardian by the hell is going on . We are out of control.” order to build support for his campaign”. Binley’s OnMedica, a healthcare data and To justify his comments, Trump caused Earnest added: “What Donald Trump intelligence provider – said patients who further controversy yesterday when he said yesterday disqualifi es him from serv- were denied treatment suff ered increased said that parts of London and Paris were ing as president .” anxiety as a result. so “radicalised” that police offi cers were The UN refugee agency yesterday said One patient killed himself after help afraid for their lives. campaign rhetoric in the US was harming with mental health problems was delayed. “Paris is no longer the safe city it was. the resettlement programme for Syrian Another doctor told how “several teen- They have sections in Paris that are radi- and other refugees. “We are concerned age girls with hirsutism [male-style hair calised, where the police refuse to go that the rhetoric that is being used in the growth on the face, chest or back] have there. They’re petrifi ed. The police refuse election campaign is putting an incredibly experienced severe psychological distress to go in there,” he told MSNBC, refusing important resettlement programme at and bullying [after being denied drugs to to name specifi c neighbourhoods in the risk that is meant for the most vulnerable treat it]. Some have self-harmed and been city. “We have places in London and other people – the victims of wars that the world admitted to hospital as a result.” places that are so radicalised that the is unable to stop,” said the spokeswoman, A 22-year-old woman with relapsed police are afraid for their own lives. We Melissa Fleming. acute myeloid leukaemia died after being have to be very smart and very vigilant.” Muslims living in the US said they denied a second allogeneic stem cell The Metropolitan police said Trump could hear an echo of Nazism in Trump’s transplant . Her doctor said her late relapse could not be more wrong in his claims rhetoric and they joined Republican con- and good response to salvage chemother- about London, while a Downing Street demnation of him, which labelled him apy meant there was a 50% chance that source said the presidential candidate’s un-American. “He’s tram- 8 9 a further transplant would have cured comments were totally inaccurate . pling on our constitution Jesse Hughes and Dave Catching of Eagles of Death Metal return for the fi rst time to the disease. However, the local GP-led London’s mayor, Boris Johnson, called the Bataclan in Paris, where 90 people were killed in a terrorist attack last month as Trump’s words “utter nonsense”. Earlier, Continued on page 9 they watched the band perform Photograph: Pierre Suu/Getty Images Continued on page 4 Tories face criticism over delayed defences in ﬂ ood zone Damian Carrington tially in line for funding in 2011. “I believe homes were flooded in Cumbria. The for north-west England . In Cumbria, 1,000 Rowena Mason the money you save and the misery you Environment Agency had previously homes remained without power, and the prevent is infi nitely greater than the out- put the fi gure at about 5,200. Kendal was local electricity supplier, Electricity North Josh Halliday lay on those schemes,” said Farron, MP for one of the places worst aff ected, with an West, called on people in the area to use The government’s spending on flood Westmorland and Lonsdale. estimated 1,400 people left temporarily energy sparingly and warned that man- defences came under criticism yesterday “I am contacting the prime minister homeless . aged power cuts may be needed later if as it emerged that a prevention scheme today to urge him to meet with me and Flood waters were largely receding demand exceeds capacity. for the Cumbrian town of Kendal, which council offi cials to agree this project [the across the county yesterday, with the The West Coast mainline reopened, was submerged by up to 5ft (1.5 metres) postponed Kendal fl ood scheme] ASAP.” cleanup beginning in towns such as although links in Cumbria remained of water after the weekend’s storm, was Local police said the estimated worst- Carlisle, where footballers from Carlisle shut. Hospitals services at Cumberland repeatedly postponed. case scenario was that as many as 6,425 United were among those joining volun- infi rmary in Carlisle – where the power Tim Farron, the Liberal Democrat teers . The costs of the storm are estimated supply had been cut off – and the West leader, whose constituency covers Ken- Liberal Democrat to be between £400m and £500m . Cumberland hospital in Whitehaven will * dal, demanded a meeting with David leader Tim Farron has But there were fears of further bad return to normal today, with the local trust Cameron after the Guardian revealed that demanded a meeting weather as the Met Offi ce issued a warn- thanking the “resilience and hard work” a £4m project to protect 440 properties with David Cameron ing for more rain and wind in Scotland of staff who had “gone out 14 15 12A from fl ooding from the river Kent, which over delays to ﬂ ood and north-west England for today and of their way”. The Labour runs through the heart of the town, has defences planned for Thursday. The Environment Agency said not been started even though it was ini- his constituency 16 severe fl ood warnings remain in place Continued on page 15 .

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