During Monday’s 49-minute speech at Youngstown State University’s Kilcawley Center, the presidential nominee referenced World War II and the Cold War, mentioning that during the latter the United States had “an ideological screening test”.
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“We will also work closely with North Atlantic Treaty Organisation on this new mission”, said Trump, whose remarks about the defense organization earlier this summer drew heavy criticism from allies and even some of his fellow Republicans. “Banning immigration from entire countries is a pretty blunt tool to address a problem”. We don’t need more.
A common thread, Trump said, about all of the “major Islamic terrorist attacks that have recently occurred on our soil” is “they have involved immigrants or children of immigrants”.
Trump railed against Clinton’s decisions to intervene in Iraq and Libya, interventions Trump supported.
Trump also repeated a popular Republican talking point, saying Obama prematurely withdrew from Iraq.
“I also believe we can find common ground with Russian Federation in the fight against ISIS”.
FILE – Islamic State fighters firing their weapons during clashes with the Kurdish-led Syria Democratic Forces.
She said she has concerns with some of the more controversial things Trump has said in the past, but this speech “hit it right on the head”.
Speaking in swing-state Ohio, Trump also said his Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton, lacks the “mental and physical stamina” to take on militants of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant. He dismissed Clinton as a failure.
It may be that his controversial statements over the last month – including an apparent call for Russian Federation to hack U.S. servers to find Clinton’s missing emails, his musings about whether Second Amendment activists could stop her Supreme Court nominees if she were president or claims that Obama “founded” ISIS – have inflicted too much damage already for his message to resonate.
“Those who do not believe in our Constitution, or who support bigotry and hatred, will not be admitted for immigration into our country”, Trump said. “We cannot always choose our friends but we can never fail to recognize our enemies”.
Donald Trump called for “extreme” ideological vetting of immigrants seeking admission to the United States, vowing to block those who sympathise with extremist groups or do not embrace American values. He said the policy would first require a temporary halt in immigration from unsafe regions of the world.
Trump said his administration will keep open Guantanamo Bay, and place a renewed emphasis on human intelligence.
Naturally, the speech was filled with blatant errors and hypocrisies-including Trump’s criticism of President Obama for his supporting of the overthrow of Hosni Mubarak, despite the fact that Trump himself claimed to support the move in an Fox News interview in 2011. Trump said his policies “will help heal the divisions in our country”, but it’s hard to see how that would happen, when his own campaign is doing just the opposite.
Donald Trump has called for the “extreme vetting” of immigrants coming to the USA, noting he would impose an ideological “screening test” if he were elected president in the forthcoming November elections. “Clearly, new screening procedures are needed”.
He said the ideological test could give immigration officials more information on those seeking entry to the U.S.
Adding to Trump’s woes this week was the news, first reported by The New York Times, that the name of his campaign manager, Paul Manafort, was on secret ledgers showing cash payments designated to him of more than $12 million from a Ukrainian political party with close ties to Russian Federation.
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In response, Jake Sullivan, Clinton’s senior campaign policy adviser, said: “Donald Trump has offered a lot of rhetoric but very few actual proposals”. He’s struggled to stay on message and has consistently overshadowed his policy rollouts, including an economic speech last week, with provocative statements.
