Donald Trump Tripped Up on Hugh Hewitt over Foreign Policy

By Published on September 4, 2015

Donald Trump, leading in the polls and riding a wave of momentum in the race for the Republican presidential nomination, just hit a speed bump named Hugh Hewitt.

The conservative radio host peppered Trump with a host of foreign policy questions in a Thursday interview that produced some uncomfortable moments for the real estate mogul, who appeared upset at the line of questioning.

At one point, Hewitt asked Trump if he was familiar with “Generalย  Soleimani” and the “Quds Forces.” (He referred to Iranian Maj. Gen. Qasem Soleimani, commander of the elite Quds Force of the Revolutionary Guard Corps.) Trump said he was but then appeared to mistake the Quds for the Kurds, a Middle Eastern ethnic group.

“The Kurds, by the way, have been horribly mistreated by us,” said Trump.

Hewitt corrected him: “No, not the Kurds, the Quds Forces, the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Quds Forces.”

Ordinarily, an interview like this would put a candidate at serious risk of falling in the polls. But nothing about Trump’s candidacy has been ordinary, so it remains to be seen whether it will hurt him or not.

Read the article “Donald Trump Tripped Up on Hugh Hewitt over Foreign Policy” on washingtonpost.com.

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