“A few minutes before the speech of Donald Trump, Vice President Joe Biden, who made his first appearance of campaigning with Hillary Clinton severely savaged the Republican candidate, saying it was ” absolutely not qualified ” to become president of the United States”.
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In remarks billed by his campaign as a cornerstone speech on his plan to fight the scourge of terrorism, Trump said that his opponent, Democrat Hillary Clinton, has neither the fitness nor the temperament to combat a threat that metastasized during her leadership of the State Department. He also called for global efforts to cut off funding to terrorist groups, expanded intelligence sharing, and cyber warfare – all steps that are part of the existing White House strategy.
But then he proceeded to call for a temporary ban on immigration from regions with terrorism problems, though he didn’t name any countries or clarify whether the ban would cover North Atlantic Treaty Organisation allies such as France.
In a speech in swing state Ohio, Trump will also call for “foreign policy realism” and an end to nation-building if elected president. “We don’t need more”.
Trump’s controversial proposal to ban Muslims from the USA has been through several iterations, with Monday’s speech just the latest to provide a venue for further clarity. But he did advocate a new ideological test for newcomers, backed by what he described as “extreme vetting”.
Moore says Trump’s presidency is all just a publicity stunt to boost his shows, adding that even Trump himself was surprised when he “ignited the country, especially among people who were the opposite of billionaires”. Only those we feel able to flourish in our country and to blend into the tolerant American society should receive a visa.
He said that under his presidency, the State Department and Homeland Security Department would create a list of blacklisted regions for travel to the US.
ISIS’ roots are in a terroist group formed in 1999 called Jama’at al-Tawhid wal-Jihad, which was formed as the Iraqi franchise of Al Qaeda. And these are problems like we’ve never seen before.
The Clinton campaign said the news was evidence of “more troubling connections between Donald Trump’s team and pro-Kremlin elements in Ukraine”.
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. Our new approach, which must be shared by both USA political parties, our allies and our friends in the Middle East, must be to halt the spread of radical Islam, he said.
His remarks are in line with the tenor of Mr. Trump’s speech, which ignored the Bush administration – who actually led the US into Iraq and Afghanistan – and instead blamed Mr. Obama and Hillary Clinton for the disastrous wars.
He described Clinton’s policy decisions in Libya as a “total disaster”.
“No, he was not saying that President Obama personally went to the Middle East and filled out the paperwork that incorporated ISIS”.
Trump suggested the course of history would have been different had the US taken a more colonial approach to Iraq, keeping control of that country’s oil supply in the wake of the 2003 invasion.
Oh yeah, and Trump said he’d get rid of all those other terrorist organizations, too. It argues that it gained power as a result of the failure to establish a new status of forces agreement in Iraq and the USA troop withdrawal as well as pushing or supporting regime change in Libya, Syria and Egypt.
Mr Trump has since said he was being sarcastic in accusing Mr Obama of founding IS.
Trump’s first announced his call for banning Muslims a year ago during the GOP primary.
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Trump gave a speech on national security Monday, trying to focus more on policy and less on provocation.
