Mr Trump, who has previously pledged to ban Muslims from entering the United States, vowed to block those who sympathise with extremist groups or who fail to embrace United States values. He accused the Democrats of creating a “vacuum to let terrorism grow and thrive” and specifically singled out President Obama as “an incompetent president” for his opening to Iran and for allowing chaos to spread throughout the Mideast by supporting the ouster of Hosni Mubarak in Egypt, leading to the rise of Islamic State and spread of Islamic terrorism.
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Republican Donald Trump said he would institute “extreme vetting” of new immigrants if he wins the presidential election, in his foreign policy speech in Youngstown, Ohio.
“Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, in what was billed as a major foreign policy address, on Monday backed off past threats to withdraw from the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation alliance – saying that if he’s elected, the US will work with the 28-member bloc to defeat the Islamic State”.
Mr Trump invoked comparisons of the fight against the Islamic State to the dangers of the Cold War.
Numerous things Trump attacked – including the Iraq invasion, the Libya intervention and the Iraq withdrawal under Obama – are developments he has expressed support for in past years. She also took a swipe at her GOP rival, saying, “We need serious leadership”. Trump spent more of his speech defining what he said was a new ideological test for those entering the USA, comparing his plan to Cold War-era screening.
Trump said a newly adopted approach to fighting terrorism by the organization had led him to change his mind and he no longer considered North Atlantic Treaty Organisation obsolete.
Trump said the current flows of immigrants and refugees into the country are too large to permit adequate screening, and said if elected, he would reduce those numbers. That’s because Trump, emphasizing again and again the threat posed by radical Islamic terrorism, expanded upon and made explicit some of his most controversial foreign policy statements.
“In the Cold War, we had an ideological screening test”.
Trump’s aides described the new language as a replacement for the religious test, but Trump has described it differently.
Republican US presidential candidate Donald Trump.
Naturally, the speech was filled with blatant errors and hypocrisies-including Trump’s criticism of President Obama for his supporting of the overthrow of Hosni Mubarak, despite the fact that Trump himself claimed to support the move in an Fox News interview in 2011. Clinton, meanwhile, spent much of her speech talking about the economy.
A Trump Administration, he said, will also work very closely with North Atlantic Treaty Organisation on this new mission. Vice President Joe Biden said.
The New York Times reports Ukrainian leaders have given Trump’s campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, millions in cash while Manafort was a political consultant there. In addition to calling for improved cybersecurity, Clinton has proposed intensifying a coalition air campaign against ISIS and providing more support for partners engaged in ground operations.
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Trump went on to claim that the “common thread” that links recent attacks in the United States is that “they have involved immigrants or the children of immigrants”, which he claims can be solved with “new screening procedures” which he dubbed “extreme, extreme vetting”. In his vision, anyone who opposes the Islamic State is an ally.
