The GOP presidential hopeful laid out his plan in a speech in Youngstown, Ohio Monday afternoon.
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However, he offered few specifics about how the process might work or how it would be paid for by taxpayers. In doing so, Trump acknowledged having previously described North Atlantic Treaty Organisation as “obsolete” for not dealing adequately with terrorism.
Trump is also set to call for increased vetting of individuals entering the United States by developing a “test” that would question visa applicants on their support of USA values and seek to weed out any supporters of extremist ideologies. He later recounted the various attacks across Europe, particularly focusing in on the priet who was beheaded in Paris a month ago, calling him “beloved”.
“What (Trump) often says hurts us”. Pennsylvania’s move away from Trump is of a piece with his ongoing struggles to make the broader Rust Belt competitive, with MI and Wisconsin continuing to look out of reach. “Anyone who can not name our enemy is not fit to lead our country”, he said, criticizing President Barack Obama’s unwillingness to use the words “radical Islam” when referring to terrorism.
Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump. Nor did the campaign say whether additional screenings would apply to the millions of tourists who spend billions of dollars visiting the United States each year.
However, he declined to say which regions of the world would face “extreme” vetting and how federal agencies would go about conducting the review. Trump asked rhetorically, claiming the reasons for invading Iraq were “blatantly wrong”. “Apparently so. Mr. Trump prefers to watch the cable shows rather than read a briefing paper”.
Trump’s supporters in NY had hoped that the state could be in play for the Queens native. The policy would represent a significant shift in how the US manages entry into the country.
“In addition to screening out all members of the sympathizers of terrorist groups, we must also screen out any who have hostile attitudes towards our country or its principles or who believe that Sharia law should supplant American law”, Trump said.
On the diplomatic front, Trump made a specific pledge to work with any country willing to make a commitment to help defeat “radical Islamic terrorism”, and criticized Obama and Clinton for their reluctance to use that term.
The plan also called for a concerted effort overseas to destroy the Islamic State and other radical Islamic terror groups, which would include military, financial and cyber warfare.
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The campaign official argued that a clear statement that the United States has no intention to “remake the Middle East into one democracy after another at the point of a gun” could encourage further cooperation and assistance from Middle Eastern allies in the fight against ISIS.
