Benghazi attack survivor Kris Paronto said Trump’s call for increased vetting was “necessary”, adding “terrorists utilize our strengths, compassion and empathy against us”. He’s also talked about suspending immigration from countries with a history of spawning terrorists, a proposal he repeated Monday.
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Trump spoke at Youngstown State University in Youngstown, Ohio where he shared his plan to wage a “military, cyber and financial” war against the Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL, also known as ISIS or Daesh) militant group by tying up with defense organization.
“The time is overdue to develop a new screening test for the threats we face today”, he said during his speech at Youngstown State University in OH in which he outlined his plans to defeat the so-called Islamic State and fight terrorism.
Trump said, “There are many such regions” and he vows to “stop processing visas from those areas until such time as it is deemed safe to resume based on new circumstances or new procedures”.
Mr Trump said he would call for an global conference focused on doing that and would partner with King Abdullah of Jordan, President Abdel Fatah al-Sissi of Egypt, and Israel.
He wagged his finger at his audience in the former steel town of Youngstown, Ohio, and repeated the phrase “extreme vetting” to convey seriousness, but he gave no details about what this might entail. “Since my comments they have changed their policy and now have a new division focused on terror threats”.
He again tried to change his politically inflammatory approach to immigration, replacing his vow a year ago to bar Muslims from entering the United States with a new commitment to bar anyone from parts of the world where terrorism breeds.
Mrs Clinton then herself tweeted: “Donald Trump says he’ll create a new test for immigrants”.
He said Trump was a clear threat to the USA and lacked the necessary foreign policy knowledge to ensure the country’s security, evident by calling President Barack Obama the founder of Daesh and increasing the danger for the U.S.
He also blamed President Barack Obama for tolerating the rise of the extremist group and undermined his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton as incapable of launching the war on terrorism. Trump doubled down on the claim for days before claiming he was being sarcastic.
“We will not defeat it with closed eyes and silenced voices”, he said of the fight against Islamic terrorism.
“I’ve got friends and family in America who are proud Americans, proud Muslims and he needs to recognize that he’s inadvertently playing into the hands of Daesh (Arabic acronym for Islamic State) or so-called ISIL and ISIS by giving the impression there is a clash between the West and mainstream Muslims”.
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“We will strike their sanctuaries from the air”, and help local forces fighting on the ground, she said, and “surge” intelligence to try to prevent attacks in the planning stage.
