Trump Campaign Co-Chair Blames Trump's Factual Error On Being Up “Early In The Morning”

Sam Clovis: When People Are “Up Early In The Morning And Making Comments ... Sometimes They Conflate Things”

From the July 18 edition of CNN's New Day:

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ALISYN CAMEROTA (HOST): So Donald Trump seemed to confuse there radical Islam and the Nation of Islam. 

SAM CLOVIS: Right, right. 

CAMEROTA: Shouldn't he know the difference between those two? 

CLOVIS: Well, I think right now there is -- it's possible for people to conflate. We still don't know a lot about what's going on with this last particular individual. 

CAMEROTA: But those are two separate groups with separate motivations and separate everything. 

CLOVIS: Exactly, but I do think there are times when people, when they're up early in the morning and making comments, or on television, sometimes they conflate things, so -- 

CAMEROTA: Yes. We understand morning confusion, certainly. But Donald Trump is one of the people who has said you got to call it what it is -- you’ve got to call something exactly what it is in order to fight it. 

CLOVIS: Well, do we know? Do we know for sure? 

CAMEROTA: We from his web postings that how he self-identified as a member of Nation of Islam, among other things. 

CLOVIS: Does he have sympathies with radical Islam? Do we know?

CAMEROTA: Not that we know of. 

CLOVIS: Not that we know, not yet, not yet. So I think until we have all the evidence that we shouldn't be so critical of the comments and we'll just wait and see how it works out.

Previously:

Media Must Not Let Trump Reduce The Orlando Conversation To Semantics About “Radical Islam”

Chris Cuomo Calls Out Trump's Claim That He’s Seen Moments Of Silence Called For The Dallas Shooter

On CNN, Trump Surrogate Defends Trump's Conspiracy Theory Push: “It's Politics”