川普淡化教宗對其移民政策的批評大綱

Donald Trump appears to be backing away from his response to Pope Francis' criticism of Trump's immigration policy heading into Saturday's U.S. Republican presidential primary election in (the southeastern state of) South Carolina.

After visiting Mexico, Pope Francis criticized Trump, saying he "is not Christian" because of his proposal to build a massive wall on the southern U.S. border with Mexico to keep out migrants headed to the United States.

During a town hall discussion Thursday night in South Carolina, Trump suggested Pope Francis' comments may have been overblown.

"I don't like fighting with the pope, actually. I don't think this is a fight. I think he said something much softer than was originally reported by the media. I think that he heard one side of the story, which is probably by the Mexican government. He didn't see the tremendous strain that you know the border is causing us with respect to illegal immigration, with the drugs pouring across the border...."

Some of Trump's challengers expressed support for the pope.

But others mostly said the matter is between Pope Francis and Trump.美國南卡羅萊納州星期六即將舉行共和黨總統初選，共和黨總統參選人川普對羅馬天主教宗方濟各批評其移民政策的迴應看來出現緩和。

羅馬天主教教宗方濟各訪問墨西哥後批評川普，說他“不是基督教徒”，因爲他提議在美墨邊界建造巨大圍牆，把試圖進入美國的移民拒之門外。

川普星期四在南卡羅萊納州召開的市民會議上表示，教宗方濟各的評論有可能被媒體過分誇大了。他說：“我不喜歡和教宗爭執。我不認爲這是一場爭執。我認爲他講話的語氣比媒體最初報道的要緩和得多。我想他只聽到了一面之詞，而且很可能是墨西哥政府的說法。他沒有看到由於非法移民和毒品的大量涌入，邊界問題給我們帶來的巨大壓力。”

川普的一些反對者支持教宗，但是大多數人認爲，這是教宗和川普之間的事。