Clinton has seized on Republican concerns about Trump, highlighting the steady stream of GOP national security experts who’ve said their party’s nominee is unfit to serve as commander in chief. It’s got to be stopped, he said. In addition, such a test would screen out those who “believe that Sharia law should supplant American law;” “Those who do not believe in our Constitution;” and those who “support bigotry and hatred”.
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Republican candidate for President Donald Trump holds a campaign event at the Kilcawley Center at Youngstown State University on August 15, 2016 in Youngstown, Ohio.
In a speech in OH, the candidate outlined his plans to combat Islamic extremism, including a new screening test for arrivals to the US.
Donald Trump’s speech on foreign policy Monday focused in large part on his proposal to suspend immigration from unsafe parts of the world and impose a new system of “extreme vetting” that would subject applicants to questions about their personal ideology.
The day after his initial announcement, he clarified that USA citizens who are Muslim would be allowed back in the country.
Trump also vowed to end “our current strategy of nation-building and regime change” – a criticism that extends to policies of both parties. Would Trump and his more radical supporters struggle to pass the same test?
“Supporting this new immigration reform proposal should be good electoral politics for Republicans”, the memo said.
Trump says that as soon as he takes office, he would ask the State Department and the Department of Homeland Security to identify “a list of regions where adequate screening can not take place”. Then he said that Muslim politicians and athletes headed to the United States for sports competitions would also be exempt, though he did not specify what level of officials or athletes.
On Monday, he added a phrase to his policy lexicon: “extreme vetting”.
Individualist values? Would it be a test that those who are already American citizens could pass, or more like the so-called literacy tests of the Jim Crow days?
He did offer this bit of foreign policy, though, regarding his good friend, Vladimir Putin: “I also believe that we could find common ground with Russian Federation in the fight against ISIS”, Trump said. “We’re gonna beat ISIS very, very quickly. folks. We want to build bridges and erase divisions”. “The goal of the commission will be to identify and explain to the American public the core convictions and beliefs of radical Islam, to identify the warning signs of radicalisation, and to expose the networks in our society that support radicalisation”, he said.
Trump’s accusation that Obama and Clinton created the Islamic State group had imperiled the lives of USA troops, Biden said.
“The common thread linking the major Islamic terrorist attacks that have recently occurred on our soil.is that they have involved immigrants or the children of immigrants”, the NY billionaire argued. “No” he replied, “I meant he’s the founder of ISIS, I do”.
Noting media reports that the Islamic State has made substantial profits selling oil in land that it occupies to fund terrorism, Trump said that “we could have prevented the rise of ISIS in Iraq” by claiming control of its oil.
Trump criticized President Barack Obama for not condemning the oppression of gays and women in the Muslim world in a speech he gave in Cairo in 2009.
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Sticking largely to prepared remarks and reading from a teleprompter, something he rarely does, Trump also criticised Clinton’s record as secretary of state and said she lacked the judgment and character to lead the country.
