“The time is overdue to develop a new screening test for the threats we face today”.
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He said Trump was a clear threat to the US 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.
Donald Trump on Monday proposed Cold War-scale efforts to battle “radical Islamic terror” that would include subjecting immigrants and visitors to the U.S. to “extreme vetting”.
“I call it extreme vetting, extreme, extreme vetting”, Trump said.
Human Rights Campaign President Chad Griffin in a statement that he released before Trump’s speech said he and his running mate, Indiana Governor Mike Pence, “would fail their own test”.
“If they can’t get Mr. Trump to change his act by Labor Day, the GOP will have no choice but to write off the nominee as hopeless and focus on salvaging the Senate and House and other down ballot race”. Once again, he did not name those countries.
Using what he called his three pillars, the Republican candidate says the US will stand with any nation that stands against ISIS and will not try to impose democracy on them.
Part of the ideological test would weed out applicants who “do not believe in our Constitution or who support bigotry and hatred”. He said destroying the terror group would be the centerpiece of his foreign policy, and he would partner with any countries that share that goal – specifically singling out Russian Federation as a nation the US could have a better relationship with.
“Our new approach, which must be shared by both parties in America, by our allies overseas, and by our friends in the Middle East, must be to halt the spread of radical Islam”, he said.
“There are many such regions”, said Trump.
He vowed to work “very closely” with Nato, sidestepping previous criticism of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation. He said common ground must be found with Russian Federation and its leader Vladimir Putin.
“It’s a cynical ploy to escape scrutiny of his outrageous proposal to ban an entire religion from our country and no one should fall for it”, said Jake Sullivan, a senior policy adviser.
Trump did not identify the specific countries from which he said the Clinton Foundation accepted donations.
Trump delivered his speech slightly more than two months after a gunman who pledged his allegiance to the so-called Islamic State killed 49 people at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida.
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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. “Just ask Donald Trump”, the video ends.
