Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has warned countries like France that he says are compromised by terrorism may be subjected to the “extreme vetting” he proposes to deter attacks in the US. People were so upset when I used the word ‘Muslim.’ Oh, you can’t use the word ‘Muslim.’ Remember this. Oh, you can’t use the word Muslim.
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In an interview to air Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press”, Trump also rejected suggestions that his stance on requiring North Atlantic Treaty Organisation members to pay their share was a mistake; defended Fox News founder Roger Ailes, who left the network amid accusations of sexual harassment; criticized rival Hillary Clinton’s newly named running mate, Sen.
“I actually don’t think it’s a rollback”, he said. In fact, you could say it’s an expansion. “I’m looking now at territory”, he says. In his speech to close out the Republican National Convention on Thursday, the real estate mogul said: “We must immediately suspend immigration from any nation that has been compromised by terrorism until such time it’s proven that vetting mechanisms have been put in place”.
“But just remember this: Our Constitution is great”. But it doesn’t necessarily give us the right to commit suicide, okay? And that’s great. And that’s the wonderful part of our Constitution. “I view it differently”, he said.
“We, the United States, we’ll get Gulf States to pay for it, because we right now, we’re going to have $21 trillion very soon, trillion, in debt”, he said.
Asked if he would limit immigration from France, where Todd noted “they’ve been compromised by terrorism”, Trump replied: “They have totally been”.
Trump’s campaign and top surrogates have insisted over the last month that the real estate mogul had backed off his December proposal to bar all foreign Muslims from the U.S.
Trump repeatedly avoided answering the question, instead saying that it’s the fault of these countries that they have been attacked by terrorists. Those comments came after Trump suggested he would allow a Scottish Muslim to enter the US under his latest proposal.
“Maybe we get to that point”, Trump responded.
However, Trump said that he is “100 per cent wrong”. “But the only negative reviews were, ‘A little dark.’ And the following day, they [Munich] had another attack, and then today you see what happened in Afghanistan with many, many people killed”, he said. We have to have tough, we’re going to have tough standards. “And I would stop the Syrian migration and a Syrian from coming into this country in two seconds”.
Trump also initially hedged on whether he’d support the Senate candidacy of former Ku Klux Klan candidate David Duke, who announced Friday that he would mount a bid as a Republican in his home state of Louisiana.
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Chuck Todd asked Trump if that’s a “rollback”.
