Donald Trump has said that he will work closely with North Atlantic Treaty Organisation allies to defeat the Islamic State (Isis) if he wins the USA presidential election in November.
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The first-term Republican, perhaps Trump’s highest-profile supporter in Georgia, spoke in stark terms Tuesday of the threat of terrorism at home and overseas. “And these are problems like we’ve never had before”, Trump said.
“I’m anxious about the vetting process from people we have no way of checking into their background”.
He said that every year, the U.S. admits 100,000 permanent immigrants “from the Middle East”, and hundreds of thousands more temporary workers and visitors from the same region.
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio | 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.
Trump added, “The time is overdue to develop a new screening test”. He then said that it was just “sarcasm,” and then later modified that tweeted statement to “I’m being sarcastic, then – but not that sarcastic, to be honest with you”, when he addressed a rally in Erie, Pennsylvania Friday. Republicans have called for Clinton not to be given classified information in light of FBI Director James Comey’s conclusion that she had been “extremely careless” in her use of a homebrew private email server as secretary of state.
Mr Trump is expected to say that any country that wants to work with the U.S. to defeat “radical Islamic terrorism” will be a U.S. ally – though aides did not specify which countries that position refers to. “And while I’m at it, we should give a hand to our great police officers and law enforcement officials”, he said.
The vice president also plans to say Trump is clueless on the needs of working families. The test would screen out people who espouse “bigotry and hatred” and would “embrace a tolerant society”.
Speaking in swing state Ohio, Trump also said his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton lacks the “mental and physical stamina” to take on the Islamic State.
The proposal was one of several Trump outlined in an OH speech laying out his vision for fighting Islamic extremism.
Many of Trump’s criticisms echoed Russian strongman Vladimir Putin, which is even more troubling since the Republican nominee has called for closer cooperation with Russia and become more forgiving of Russian expansionism.
Biden also said that Trump’s accusation that Obama and Clinton had created ISIL also imperiled the lives of USA troops overseas.
In short, Hillary Clinton wants to be America’s Angela Merkel, and you know what a disaster this massive immigration has been to Germany and the people of Germany – crime has risen to levels that no one thought would they would ever see.
The GOP presidential nominee has made stricter immigration measures a central part of his proposals for defeating the Islamic State – a battle he said Monday is akin to the struggle against communism during the Cold War.
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Prior to Obama’s coming to office in 2009, Trump said, “Libya was stable, Syria was under control, Egypt was ruled by a secular president and ally to the U.S., Iraq was experiencing a decrease in violence and Iran was being choked off by economic sanctions”.
