Speaking in Youngstown, Ohio, Trump never mentioned his controversial Muslim ban – a signal that he’s crept away from the polarizing policy he prescribed during his primary run – but he did contend that he would still suspend immigration from countries with a history of exporting terrorism.
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Artem Sytnik, the head of Ukraine’s anti-corruption bureau, confirmed in a briefing with reporters that Manafort’s name appeared on a ledger and that more than $12 million had been allocated as an expenditure, referencing Manafort.
Also, Trump didn’t specify what countries would be affected by this new test.
Trump has spoken favorably in the past of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Trump’s campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, on Sunday blamed news organizations for the GOP nominee’s hard week, saying the press focused on a pair of Trump comments for days rather than doing more stories about the economic plan Trump announced.
He had no intention of making an actual foreign policy speech.
On Monday, he added a phrase to his policy lexicon: “extreme vetting”, in which the USA would screen out those who don’t “share our values and respect our people”. There is no true foreign policy in his universe – only the singular threat of radical Islam, a concept without a country, easy to manipulate in order to smear perceived adversaries.
Trump’s mother and wife were immigrants.
This is a remarkable claim for a candidate who is both the son, husband and ex-husband of immigrants.
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has accused the Obama administration of waging a “politically correct” war against ISIS and warned that more terror attacks will take place. The Democrats are running on their candidate’s national-security credentials. And it is a suspicious claim to make as he and his backers fall under scrutiny for their connection to an authoritarian government, Russia, which shares the xenophobic, anti-Muslim outlook. These embassy attacks were more frequent under Bush than under Obama.
He began his address by ticking down the list of terrorist attacks in the United States that have occurred during the Obama administration, right up to the attack on an Orlando nightclub that was the worst mass shooting in American history.
The Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on New York City and the Pentagon occurred while he was mayor. In 2012, 66 were killed in mass shootings alone: twice the number killed by Muslim terrorists since 9/11. “I must tell you had Donald Trump been president I would have thrown my body in front of him … to keep him from going if the judgment was based on Trump’s decision”.
Obama, Clinton and top US officials have warned against using that kind of language to describe the conflict, arguing that it plays into militants’ hands.
“Mr. Trump’s speech will explain that while we can’t choose our friends, we must always recognize our enemies”, Trump senior policy adviser Stephen Miller said Sunday.
He pointed to the Middle East’s condition before Obama and Clinton took office, saying that in 2009 Libya was stable, Syria was under control, and Egypt was ruled by a secular president. Yet holding future conferences and setting up future commissions are not policy ideas.
Any Trump fans here in the US who aren’t citizens at the moment should be feeling very nervous. This is true, but not in the way he intended.
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“As for Mr. Trump, he needs to stop blaming everyone else and decide if he wants to behave like someone who wants to be president – or turn the nomination over to Mike Pence”, it said, referring to the IN governor, who is Trump’s vice presidential running mate.
