He said: “We will work very closely with North Atlantic Treaty Organisation on this new mission”.
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To do that, Trump said his presidential administration would oppose “oppression of women, gays and people of different faiths” and would be allies with, and amplify the voices of, “moderate Muslim reformers in the Middle East”.
Trump is facing an urgent need to counter a Clinton campaign charge that could pose an existential threat to his campaign – the idea that he lacks the knowledge and gravitas to be commander-in-chief – and to quell panic among Republicans who fear he is driving their ticket into the ground.
“Overseas, IS has carried out one unthinkable atrocity after another”, Trump said.
The Republican nominee has made stricter immigration measures a central part of his proposals for defeating the Islamic State, a battle he said Monday is akin to the Cold War struggle against communism.
Kevin Johnson, dean of the UC Davis Law School, says the concept of ideological litmus tests recalls the Cold War era and the use of immigration laws to regulate the ideologies of people coming to the US. “Those who do not believe in our Constitution, or who support bigotry and hatred, will not be admitted for immigration into the country”, he said.
Trump didn’t offer many specifics in his speech, raising a number of questions about how he would implement his proposals.
That raises questions about where a Trump administration would draw the line. “Foreign combatants will be tried in military commissions”, Trump said. Biden added: “The guy’s shame has no limits”. The current U.S. Vice-President, Joe Biden, suggested that the nominee himself “would have loved Stalin”.
Meanwhile, a Ukrainian anti-corruption investigation was reported to have found $12.7-million (U.S.) in cash payments from a pro-Russia political party designated for Mr. Trump’s campaign manager, Paul Manafort.
Trump’s relationship with and favorable comments about Russian President Vladimir Putin have earned him bipartisan backlash.
Trump has made several damaging remarks in the past month.
France and Belgium are just two of the nations whose citizens have committed acts of terror. Polls also show Trump trailing in states such as Pennsylvania that are likely to be pivotal in the election.
Trump leads by 9 points on destroying terrorist groups like ISIS, which is where he focused his concern on Monday.
Trump pledged to establish a Commission on Radical Islam to expose terrorists and their supporters and establish new protocols for police and immigration screeners.
It’s fitting that Donald Trump gave a major policy speech on foreign policy and fighting terrorism in Youngstown, Ohio.
He also proposed calling an global conference focused on stopping the spread of radical Islam.
But Trump did not say whether his anti-ISIS plan would include USA combat troops in the Iraq.
Trump is right that the visa vetting needs to be reviewed and tightened. “I said, ‘Keep the oil”.
Trump railed off a list of terror attacks organized or inspired by IS that have rattled the U.S. and Europe in recent years and offered that as proof of failed policy. He hasn’t backed away from it, though, and has in interviews called his proposals an “expansion” of the ban.
Trump himself did not clarify how officials would assess the responses to the questionnaires or how much manpower it would require to complete the vetting, but said implementing the policy overhaul would require a temporary halt in immigration from “the most unsafe and volatile regions of the world that have a history of exporting terrorism”. He accused the Democrats of creating a “vacuum to let terrorism grow and thrive” and specifically singled out President Obama as “an incompetent president” for his opening to Iran and for allowing chaos to spread throughout the Mideast by supporting the ouster of Hosni Mubarak in Egypt, leading to the rise of Islamic State and spread of Islamic terrorism.
The official called on the State Department to release a list of individuals who had obtained visas to the USA since 2001 who have since “been charged, implicated or accused of terrorism” in order to determine which countries should be banned.
“Donald Trump proposed an ideological “test” to ensure that potential immigrants support American values”.
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He did not identify those regions, saying instead that he would ask the State Department and the Department of Homeland Security to do so once he is elected.
