Mr Trump invoked comparisons of the fight against the Islamic State to the dangers of the Cold War.
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Donald Trump laid out his plan for combating global Islamic terrorism, invoking the Cold War era to try new approaches and accusing President Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton of bungling the fight against terrorist threats. “I call it extreme, extreme vetting”.
“We should only admit into this country those who share our values and respect our people”, Trump said. Trump did not identify the countries that would face the immigration and visa scrutiny beyond broadly invoking the middle-east region, although he cited honor killings in Pakistan and said speaking out against the disgusting practice would be a litmus test to determine moderate Muslims, who he said his administration would befriend.
The Briefing, Hillary Clinton’s opposition research arm, turned the tables on Trump’s test – trying to prove he wouldn’t be qualified to immigrate into the country based on his own test.
Republican U.S. presidential nominee Donald Trump speaks at Youngstown State University in Youngstown, Ohio.
The new standard would “suspend immigration from areas of the world where there is a proven history of terrorism against these US, Europe or our allies, until we fully understand how to end these threats”. It may be no coincidence that Trump promoted these misguided ideas after he made Paul Manafort his campaign chairman in May.
According to Trump, immigrants who embrace American values and are expected to thrive in the country would be issued visas.
Perdue, who enthusiastically endorsed Trump in June, said he struggles with the NY businessman’s choice of words, such as his feud with the family of a slain U.S. Muslim soldier or his assertion that President Barack Obama is the founder of the Islamic State terror group.
In December, Trump called for a temporary “total and complete” ban on Muslims’ entering the USA, but as time went on, he made more and more exceptions.
“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.
“The rise of ISIS is the direct result of policy decisions made by President Obama and Secretary of State Clinton”, Trump said.
“When I say ‘do our jobs, ‘ what I mean is we are going to have to continue to be engaged”, Obama said. Still, he directly blamed the president and Clinton, who served as Obama’s secretary of state from 2009 to 2013, for backing policies that “unleashed” the group, including withdrawing USA troops from Iraq in late 2011.
“The support networks for radical Islam in this country will be stripped out and removed one by one, viciously, if necessary”.
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Introducing Trump was former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, who seemed to forget that the attacks of September 11, 2001, took place during the Bush administration when he claimed that there hadn’t been “any successful radical Islamic terrorist attack in the U.S.” in the eight years before Obama became president. “Only this way will we make America great again, and safe again, for everyone”.
