Donald Trump on Wednesday accused Democrats attending their national convention of ignoring security issues ranging from border policies to the Islamic State, arguing a Hillary Clinton administration would only make the situation worse as security in Europe and beyond unravels.
(FOX)- “France is no longer France,” the Republican presidential nominee said during a wide-ranging and nearly one-hour press conference in Miami. “Look at what’s happening in Syria, with immigration, in Iraq. And under Hillary Clinton it will only be worse.”
Trump restated his hardline immigration position that the United States should at least temporarily ban immigrants from Middle East countries that are hotbeds for ISIS and other radical Islamic terror groups. And he argued that Clinton’s vice-presidential nominee, Sen. Tim Kaine, wants to further open U.S. borders to people from such countries.
“He even wants more people coming in from that region than Hillary Clinton does,” Trump said. “I don’t want people coming into the country doing damage to our people.”
Trump spoke before the start of the third day of Democrats’ nominating convention in Philadelphia that ends Thursday.
He also talked shortly after another terror strike in France in which two armed men claiming to be ISIS fighters slit the throat of an 84-year-old priest in northern France, killing him. The attack occurred about two weeks after an apparent radicalized Muslim killed 84 people in Nice, France, on Bastille Day.