“We will also work closely with North Atlantic Treaty Organisation on this new mission”, said Trump, whose remarks about the defense organization earlier this summer drew heavy criticism from allies and even some of his fellow Republicans.
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Mahoning County’s Republican Party Chairman tells The Vindicator in Youngstown that numerous county’s 21,000 newly registered Republicans are excited by Trump’s candidacy.
Mr Trump is also expected to spend significant time going after President Barack Obama and Mrs Clinton, the former secretary of state, blaming them for enacting policies he argues allowed IS to spread.
“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”, Trump said.
She kept up that argument on Monday night as she campaigned alongside Vice President Joe Biden in Scranton, Pennsylvania, a working class area where both have family ties. He said attacks involving “immigrants or the children of immigrants” underscore the need to implement “extreme vetting”.
Trump also asserted that Libya, Syria, Egypt, Iraq and Iran all posed lesser threats before Obama took office.
“If my son were still in Iraq and I say to all those who are there, the threat to their life has gone up a couple of clicks”, he said.
Earlier, Hillary Clinton blasted Trump’s suitability as a candidate for commander in chief. She plans to campaign in Cleveland on Wednesday.
In his second big policy speech in as many weeks, Trump said he would wage a multi-front “military, cyber and financial” war to defeat Islamic State.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump appeared Monday at Youngstown State University in OH to deliver a speech on foreign policy and ISIS, in which he laid out ideas consistent with the anti-immigration stance he’s built since day one of his campaign.
“In addition to screening out all members or sympathizers of terrorist groups, we must also screen out any who have hostile attitudes towards our country or its principles – or who believe that Sharia law should supplant American law”, he said.
The Republican compared the battle to defeat the Islamic State (Isis) death cult with the Western struggle against communism during the cold war.
However, his democratic rival Hilary Clinton poured scorn on his plan, labelling it a “cynical ploy”. The test would include social media searches, written quizzes, and interviews, through which applicants will be assessed for “values like tolerance and pluralism”.
The size of current immigrant flows are simply too large to perform adequate screening.
Trump did not clarify how US officials would assess the veracity of responses to the questionnaires or how much manpower it would require to complete such arduous vetting.
Those attending the speech were clearly pleased with Trump’s pledge to slam the brakes on immigration, but as in all policy matters, the devil is in the details.
Clinton’s camp shot back by criticizing Trump’s plan as “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”.
Trump added, “The time is overdue to develop a new screening test”.
Trump had promised to release a list of “terror countries”, but never did.
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The U.S. already screens everyone who enters the country, said Doris Meissner, who heads the Migration Policy Institute’s U.S. immigration policy program.
