Trump’s Democratic rival Hillary Clinton and top USA government officials have warned of the dangers of using that kind of language to describe the conflict, arguing that it plays into militants’ hands.
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“After beginning his remarks with a long reminder of the recent attacks in the U.S. and Europe – the Boston Marathon the attacks in Paris, through Orlando, Brussels, San Bernardino and Nice – Donald Trump has accused Barack Obama and his rival Hillary Clinton for having created the vacuum that allowed terrorism to flourish”.
“Our country has enough problems, we don’t need more, and these are problems like we never had before”, he said.
Striking a note very different from his usual divisive campaign rhetoric, Trump acknowledged the need for a bipartisan and worldwide consensus to defeat radical Islam and said that only a renewed spirit of Americanism can help heal the divisions in America.
Singling out Russia, Trump said that the U.S. should “find common ground” with leaders in Moscow in the fight against the Islamic State group.
“I also believe that we could find common ground with Russian Federation in a fight against ISIS”, Trump said.
Finally, he called for a more stringent immigration test to limit admission to the United State to only “those who share our values and respect our people”.
“We will work side by side with our friends in the Middle East, including our greatest ally Israel”. North Atlantic Treaty Organisation invoked Article 5, its collective self-defense mechanism, for the first time in its history to offer support to the United States after the September 11, 2001, attacks.
Trump proposed temporarily suspending immigration “from some of the most risky and volatile regions of the world that have a history of exporting terrorism”. The time is long overdue to develop a new screening test for the threats we face today.
Trump went on a Twitter rant against the press, complaining that the “disgusting” media is not showing the crowd size of his rallies and is putting “false meaning into the words I say”. The McArran-Walter Act of 1952 established guidelines for excluding immigrants who were found to be communists, anarchists, or engaged in other “subversive” activities, and provided the Attorney General power to exclude from the country aliens determined to “be prejudicial to the public interest, safety, or security”. Clinton senior policy advisor Jake Sullivan said in a statement. “How can Trump put this forward with a straight face when he opposes marriage equality and selected as his running mate the man (Mike Pence) who signed an anti-LGBT law in IN?” His history of proposing a ban on people from an entire religious group from entering the country would likely not pass his religious tolerance test he’s set to propose.
United States presidential nominee Donald Trump said on Monday that he is willing to work with Egypt, Jordan, and Israel to extinguish Islamic extremism. She kept up that argument Monday as she campaigned alongside Vice President Joe Biden in Scranton, Pennsylvania, a working class area where both have family ties.
As he has in the past, Trump blamed Obama and Clinton for creating a “vacuum” by withdrawing troops from Iraq, supporting the overthrow of Assad, and helping oust Libya’s Moammar Gaddafi, that allowed the Islamic State to expand. “I said keep the oil, keep the oil, keep the oil”.
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Trump’s campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, on Sunday blamed news organizations for the GOP nominee’s hard week, saying the press focused on a pair of Trump comments for days rather than doing more stories about the economic plan Trump announced.
