Despite increasing criticism on his national security remarks from the Democrats and many Republicans including 50 senior former national security experts who issued an open letter last week saying he was too reckless to be president, Trump went on with a more nuanced tack in his Monday speech, local analysts observed.
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Clinton knocked Trump for having previously said he prefers to keep his foreign policy proposals secret in order to catch enemies by surprise. Any country that wants to work with the U.S.to defeat “radical Islamic terrorism” will be a USA ally, he is expected to say.
As Trump wrapped up his speech, he told supporters, volunteers, and others in the crowd, “As President, I will be your single greatest champion”. According to Monday’s disclosures by the Ukrainian government, Trump’s campaign manager, Paul Manafort, may have received more than $12 million in consulting fees from a Pro-Russian political party in Ukraine. The newspaper says Manafort’s lawyer denied his client received any such payments.
Donald Trump will announce Monday that he wants individuals entering the U.S.to take some kind of “ideological test” before they are admitted into the country.
Trump characterized this plan in July as an expansion of his proposal last December to block all Muslims from entering the U.S.
To put these new procedures in place, Trump said the country will have to temporarily suspend immigration from some of the most risky and volatile regions of the world that have a history of exporting terrorism. He specifically highlighted the withdrawal of USA troops from Iraq in late 2011, arguing the move created a vacuum for terror groups to thrive. The test would include social media searches, written quizzes, and interviews, through which applicants will be assessed for “values like tolerance and pluralism”.
“We will be tough, and we will be even extreme”, said Trump at a campaign rally in Youngstown, Ohio, casting the fight against “Radical Islamic Terrorism” as this generation’s Cold War.
Mr Trump’s Democratic rival Mrs Clinton and top U.S. government officials have warned of the dangers of using that kind of language to describe the conflict, arguing that it plays into militants’ hands.
“That there is no question that the failed policies of President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in the wider Middle East created a vacuum within Iraq in which ISIS was able to arise”.
Some European diplomats in particular have expressed exasperation at the NY businessman’s foreign policy statements. Vice President Joe Biden speaking at a campaign event with Hillary Clinton said that Mr Trump’s claim that Mr Obama and Mrs Clinton had “founded” IS proved his views to be “dangerous” and “un-American”, and that it had made U.S. soldiers in Iraq less safe already.
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Mr Trump’s allies said they are confident that this time the billionaire developer will stay on track. “There will be very serious consequences”, he said. If you would like to discuss another topic, look for a relevant article. “You know what? We don’t”.
