When Donald Trump reasserted his support Monday for profiling in order to combat the terror threat, he was accused of advocating “racial profiling” by CNN!

The Republican presidential nominee called for Israel-style profiling Monday on Fox News in the wake of bombings in New York and New Jersey, saying on “Fox & Friends” that Israel has done an “unbelievable job.”

“As you know in Israel they profile, they’ve done an unbelievable job — as good as you can do,” Trump said. “And they’ll profile, they profile. They see somebody who’s suspicious, they profile, they will take that person and they’ll check [them] out.”

While Trump offered no criteria for how he would profile, CNN nevertheless reported that Trump was backing “racial profiling.”

The Hill reports that CNN ran headlines reporting the Republican presidential nominee advocated “racial profiling” based on remarks he made about terrorism and immigration following two bomb blasts in New York and New Jersey over the weekend.

But a review of the transcript of Trump’s comments to Fox News which CNN cited shows Trump, while mentioning “profiling,” never put the word “racial” in front of it, according to The Hill.

“You know in Israel, they profile. They’ve done an unbelievable job — as good as you can do. But Israel has done an unbelievable job. And they’ll profile. They profile. They see somebody that’s suspicious. They will profile. They will take that person in. They will check out,” Trump said to Fox.

Profiling is a common tool used by police and intelligence organizations to identify and target criminals. The type of profiling the Republican candidate has proposed is idealogical and regional based on current terrorist activity. Profiling is taught to new recruits of most organizations as a basic tool of detection.

CNN’s chyron said: “Trump says ‘racial profiling’ will stop terror” – despite Trump not using the word “racial.”

CNN.com ran with a similar storyline – “Donald Trump defends racial profiling in wake of bombs” — though the article itself correctly quoted Trump.

The CNN.com article also correctly notes that “Trump did not say on what attributes he would encourage police to profile possible suspects,” yet both the headline and first paragraph say Trump was promoting “racial” profiling.

Read these 2 separate Trump/Fox interviews from today and then ask if his claim that he never said he wanted to profile Muslims rings true: pic.twitter.com/q1aFKfWcr8 — Sopan Deb (@SopanDeb) September 20, 2016

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