Some of the most controversial proposals Donald Trump made while running for US president disappeared from his campaign website on Thursday, but a spokesman said what some observers took as a softening of Trump's policies was due to a technical glitch.


The link to Trump's December 7 proposal titled: "Donald J. Trump statement on Preventing Muslim Immigration,' in which he called for "a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States' vanished temporarily from the website but later reappeared. So too did a list of Trump's potential Supreme Court justice picks as president and certain details of his economic, defense and regulatory reform plans.


'The website was temporarily redirecting all specific press release pages to the home page," Trump spokesman Steven Cheung said in an email. Links to Trump's policy proposals, including the Muslim ban, were working again by 3.30pm EST. The links, which had redirected readers to a campaign fundraising page, appeared to have been removed around Election Day on Tuesday, when Trump won a historic upset against Democratic rival Hillary Clinton, according to a website that records historic snapshots of web pages. In an appearance on CNBC on Thursday, Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal praised Trump for removing the Muslim ban proposal from his website and also said Trump had deleted statements offensive to Muslims from his Twitter account. The prince could not be reached for comment after the links were restored.