Trump said his new strategy will instead focus on radical Islamic terrorism – what he called a “hateful ideology” – similar to the effort to defeat communism during the Cold War and will include freezing immigration from some countries while “extreme” new immigrant vetting procedures can be created.
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Taking a good-cop, bad-cop approach, Donald Trump and his campaign Sunday blasted the media for what they said was unfair news coverage, while running mate Mike Pence offered a more conciliatory tone in defending the Republican presidential nominee. The time is overdue to develop a new screening test for the threats we face today.
Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid mocked Trump over his call for an immigration test, saying the NY businessman should take it himself.
Then there’s “extreme vetting”. Our country has enough problems. “He has been, from day one, outlining different proposals he has had to make America safe, to make us more secure and to avoid this existential threat ISIS (is) posing for us”.
Speaking at Youngstown State University in the critical swing state of OH on Monday [August 15, 2016], the real estate magnate made an attempt at interweaving newer ideas for changing America’s tactics on the battlefield with older ones that involve the seizing of Middle Eastern oil fields to combat terrorism.
“Those who do not believe in our Constitution, or who support bigotry and hatred, will not be admitted for immigration into the country”, Trump said.
US officials estimated at one point as many as 6,000 extremists in the North African country. The moves signal that Trump plans to embrace his populist, outsider persona in the campaign’s final stretch rather than moderate and extend a hand to more traditional Republicans. To start, aides said, he would consider adding a review of social media accounts and conducting interviews with an applicant’s friends and family.
A Trump Administration will establish a clear principle that will govern all decisions pertaining to immigration.
“(Trump) is not qualified to know the codes”, Biden claimed.
“We will have to temporarily suspend immigration from some of the most unsafe and volatile regions of the world that have a history of exporting terrorism”.
Which countries exactly? That’s TBD. He says, “They’re terrific people, they’re winners, they’rechamps, and we need to win it”. “Mr. Trump did not mention that he himself supported the overthrow of Mr. Mubarak in an interview with Fox News in 2011”.
The reference to joint operations is apparently to Russia, which opposes US support for moderate opposition forces trying to oust Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, a Russian ally.
He argued USA control of Iraq’s oil fields would have denied ISIS a key source of financing, while the American troops needed to safeguard the wells would have provided a check against the rise of the terrorist group.
Trump has not broached the topic of how much it would cost to set up and run his new vetting system.
“If we had controlled the oil like I said we should, we could have prevented the rise of ISIS in Iraq, both by cutting off a major source of funding and through the presence of USA forces necessary to safeguard the oil and vital infrastructure products necessary for us to have the oil”.
“This proposal by its very nature would have left soldiers in place of our assets”, he said.
The costs of an expansion of that system as Trump has proposed, she said, would likely be “extraordinary”.
At its heart “extreme vetting” is a method that might help Trump get around the religious test embodied in his past suggestion of a temporary ban on the entry of non-citizen Muslims into the United States – a means of religious discrimination that’s been heavily criticized.
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. “And I don’t think she’s really out of it”. But he did repeat his claim he was opposed to the Iraq War before it began, which fact-checkers say is untrue. ‘Oh, you can’t use the word Muslim, ‘ remember this?
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Trump had promised to release his list of “terror countries” soon.
