Trump: increased vetting of Europeans entering U.S., changes to NATO

Trump: increased vetting of Europeans entering U.S., changes to NATO

 

In a pre-taped interview on NBC’s “Meet the Press”, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump described enhanced vetting travelers and immigrants from Europe could face if he were president and expanded on his promise to cut support for NATO countries that don’t pay their share of the treaty organization’s dues.

Trump said the U.S. should more carefully vet immigrants and travelers coming into the country – especially from places where attacks have taken place – including Germany and France.

“If a person can’t prove that they are from an area, and a person can prove what they have to be able to prove, they’re not coming into this country,” Trump said in the interview from Bedminster, New Jersey, that aired on Sunday (July 24).

“And I would stop the Syrian migration and the Syrian from coming into this country in two seconds. Hillary Clinton wants to take 550 percent more people coming in from that area than Barack Obama. I think she’s crazy. I think she’s crazy,” Trump added.

Trump criticized arrangements with U.S. allies, saying he might end NATO guarantees to member states.

“You know this goes beyond NATO, because we take care of we take care of Japan we take care of Germany we take care of South Korea we take care of Saudi Arabia and we lose on everything. We lose on everything,” he said.

“So all I’m saying is they have to pay. Now a country gets invaded – they haven’t paid. Everyone says, ‘oh, but we have a treaty’. Well they have a treaty too. They’re supposed to be paying. We have countries with NATO that are taking advantage of us. With me, I believe they’re going to pay, and when they pay, I’m a big believer in NATO. But if they don’t pay we don’t have…You know, Chuck, this isn’t 40 years ago. This isn’t 50 years ago. It’s not 30 years ago. We’re a different country today. We’re much weaker. Our military is depleted. We owe tremendous amounts of money. We have to be reimbursed. We can no longer be the stupid country,” Trump said.

National security officials and some Republicans said abandoning NATO’s mutual defense guarantee, enshrined in Article 5 of the treaty, would abandon 66 years of U.S. foreign policy and threaten the world’s most powerful military alliance.

Senate Republican Majority Leader Mitch McConnell told CNN he disagreed “totally” with Trump’s comments on NATO, and U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, a former presidential rival of Trump, said Trump’s remarks made the world more dangerous and the United States less safe.

 

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