“Once again someone we were told is ok turns out to be a terrorist who wants to destroy our country & its people- how did he get thru system?”
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Clinton used the meetings with the three world leaders, in contrast, to stress her facility with high-level diplomacy gained by years of experience on the world stage.
On Facebook, he attacked Clinton, writing, “ weakness while she was Secretary of State, has emboldened terrorists all over the world to attack the US, even on our own soil”.
Parliamentarian Nashwa el-Deeb told reporters she and others would be meeting with USA officials and congressmen to redress the “wrong perceptions and positions” about Egypt.
In July, Trump said Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton in her policies as USA secretary of state from 2009 to 2013 was responsible for allowing the Muslim Brotherhood to take over Egypt, a development later reversed in a military coup, and other disasters across the region.
Top advisers Sen. Jeff Sessions, Alabama Republican, and retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn joined Trump for the bilateral meeting.
Trump told Sisi – who has been much-criticized by rights groups for his intolerance of dissent – that “under a Trump administration, the United States of America will be a loyal friend, not simply an ally, that Egypt can count on”.
Trump’s campaign released a statement saying that Trump “highlighted how Egypt and the USA share a common enemy and the importance of working together in defeating radical Islamic terrorism”. Trump called Putin a stronger leader than Obama, rattling both Democrats and Republicans in Washington. “I knew this was going to happen”, he added.
He’s also already planning invites for future White House state visits and foreign trips aboard Air Force One. She also said it’s “important to address these threats”. Clinton’s was announced last week, while Trump’s was announced on Sunday.
Trump ventured to Mexico late last month to meet with President Enrique Pena Nieto to discuss border security between the two nations.
He said: “They’re making violence possible”.
Clinton’s campaign seized on the public back-and-forth between the Mexican leader and Trump, with the Democratic nominee calling it Trump’s “embarrassing global incident”.
While Clinton’s politics are less larger-than-life than Trump’s, to many Egyptians, they are also less clear. But Trump earlier in the year also spoke favorably of Mubarak’s ouster. She said: “He keeps saying he has a secret plan”.
In the past, Clinton has referred to Egypt as “basically an army dictatorship”, comments Burnett asked the nation’s current president to respond to.
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“We hear that Trump will be supporting Sisi in the so-called fight against terrorism and this will lead to cracking down more on human rights, leading to a massive deterioration in the human rights situation in Egypt”, says Mohamed Ahmed, a researcher on Egypt at Amnesty International.
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