Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump said Monday that his Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton, does not have the “mental and physical stamina” required to battle the Islamic State and, by extension, radical Islamic terror.
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The Clinton campaign said Trump’s plan to have immigrants submit to ideological tests was “a cynical ploy to escape scrutiny of his outrageous proposal to ban an entire religion from our country and no one should fall for it”. “If we don’t control the numbers, we can’t perform adequate screening”, Trump said. “He favors “extreme vetting” – as far as I know that is a skateboarding term”, Steel told CNN’s Jake Tapper.
Trump named no countries but cited the number of immigrants from the Middle East as an example of the scope of the perceived problem. He’s trying to stay on message and build a consistent case against Democrat Hillary Clinton, repeatedly roiling the White House race with provocative comments that have drawn criticism.
“Who can imagine that the US can’t know who is behind sending money and arms to the terrorists in Syria and Iraq?”.
Trump was vague about what he would do differently to decimate the Islamic State in its strongholds in Iraq and Syria. Some would call it bigotry and hatred.
Earlier in the day, state Rep. and Air Force reservist John Boccieri raised questions about Trump’s relationship with Russian Federation.
Building on his previous pledge to bar immigration from countries with a history of terrorism, Trump said that he will instruct the State Department and Department of Homeland Security to determine which regions will pose issues for screening.
Which countries exactly? That’s TBD.
“As soon as I take office, I will ask the State Department and the Department of Homeland Security to identify a list of regions where inadequate screening can not take place”.
As he has in the past, Trump said he would keep open the prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, that Obama has unsuccessfully tried to close for more than seven years.
It was not clear if the millions of tourists who visit the USA each year would be subject to the additional screenings.
While Trump has been criticized in the past for failing to lay out specific policy solutions, aides say that Monday’s speech will again focus on his broader vision.
Trump has not broached the topic of how much it would cost to set up and run his new vetting system.
Now Trump would be on the lookout for people harboring “hostile attitudes toward our country or its principles or who believe that Sharia law should supplant American law”, he said, as well as “screening out all members or the sympathizers of terrorist groups”.
“The fact of the matter is we have very sophisticated vetting programs in place”, she said, noting that the country has invested billions in improving systems and information sharing since the 9/11 attacks. And while he seems to be retreating from his Muslim ban, one of his plans resembles the bureaucracy he rails against, a presidential commission that would include moderate Muslims to identify the warnings signs of radicalization and which would then develop protocols for law enforcement.
Since Donald Trump called for temporarily banning Muslims from entering the US, he has tried to expand, narrow or otherwise redefine the polarizing proposal that helped win him the Republican primary but has posed a greater challenge in the general election campaign.
“I think he was being very serious”, Pence said, according to CNN. But he did repeat his claim he was opposed to the Iraq War before it began, which fact-checkers say is untrue. “I’m looking now at territory”, he said in a July interview with NBC News, suggesting the change was more about language.
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