“In short, Hillary Clinton wants to be America’s Angela Merkel”, Trump said, adding that Merkel’s lax refugee program has been a “disaster” for Germany in recent years.
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“In the Cold War, we had an ideological screening test”.
Comedian Donald Trump on stage during one of his stand-up sets earlier this month in Wisconsin.
Trump walked back claims – which he stood by for the better part of last week – that President Obama was “the founder” of ISIS, offering a more diplomatic alternative: “The rise of ISIS is a direct result of policy decisions made by President Obama and Secretary of State Clinton”.
Mr. Trump called Mr. Obama and Ms. Clinton, who served as secretary of state from 2009 to 2013, “co-founders” of IS during a campaign rally August 10.
In a speech the Republican presidential nominee delivered on Monday on Ohio, Trump pledged to build a bipartisan and global consensus, re-classifying United States allies as any nation that will stand with Washington against “radical Islamic extremism”.
The proposal was one of several Trump outlined in an OH speech laying out his vision for fighting Islamic extremism. Top Republicans have called on the Trump campaign to right itself. Al-Qaeda in Iraq was the successor to a different terrorist group formed in 1999.
The Hezbollah comments are the latest instance of rogue foreign leaders or groups making comments complimentary or supportive of Mr. Trump.
Three decades later, Trump’s running the same scam; the only difference is that he’s now using negative superlatives about his opponents in place of positive ones about himself.
Hassan Nasrallah said the presidential candidate had “facts and documents” to support his statements.
Trump surrogate Jeff Sessions, a Republican senator from Alabama, said on ABC News’ “This Week” on Sunday that the current Democratic administration’s foreign policy created a vacuum for the Islamic State to grow in Syria, Libya, and elsewhere.
The real-estate mogul said he would, as president, work with Middle Eastern allies, even as he has faced heated criticism for his call in December to ban Muslims from entering the United States.
While Trump had not been expected to list on Monday which countries’ citizens would be banned from the U.S., the senior campaign official offered Syria and Libya as examples of two countries that would be affected by the ban.
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The senior campaign official declined to say exactly what such a test would look like, but said it could include a questionnaire to get potential immigrants on record about their views.
