Well, folks, here it is, the actual transcript of Donald
Trump's National Security speech given yesterday.
Don't swallow the lies and misrepresentation of the
media; read the speech for yourself... and if anything sounds hincky to you, do
your OWN fact checking.
(*SHRUG*)
The first step toward taking our country back is
educating yourself absent a MSM - or even "conservative news" -
filter.
* * *
Thank you. It is great to be with you this afternoon.
Today we begin a conversation about how to Make America
Safe Again.
In the 20th Century, the United States defeated Fascism,
Nazism, and Communism. Now, a different threat challenges our world: Radical
Islamic Terrorism.
This summer, there has been an ISIS attack launched
outside the war zones of the Middle East every 84 hours.
Here, in America, we have seen one brutal attack after
another.
Thirteen were murdered, and 38 wounded, in the assault on
Ft. Hood. The Boston Marathon Bombing wounded and maimed 264 people, and
ultimately left five dead – including 2 police officers. In Chattanooga,
Tennessee, five unarmed marines were shot and killed at a military recruiting
center. Last December, 14 innocent Americans were gunned down at an office
party in San Bernardino, another 22 were injured. In June, 49 Americans were
executed at the Pulse Nightclub in Orlando, and another 53 were injured. It was
the worst mass shooting in our history, and the worst attack on the LGTBQ
community in our history.
* FOLKS... TRUMP ONLY TOUCHED ON THE AMOUNT OF TERRORISM
WE'VE SEEN WITHIN OUR OWN BOARDS SINCE PRESIDENT OBAMA FIRST TOOK OFFICE. I
MEAN... JUST AS AN EXAMPLE... NOTE THAT TRUMP ONLY MENTIONS ONE OF THE TWO FT.
HOOD TERRORIST ATTACKS.
In Europe, we have seen the same carnage and bloodshed
inflicted upon our closest allies. In January of 2015, a French satirical
newspaper, Charlie Hebdo, was attacked for publishing cartoons of the prophet
Mohammed. Twelve were killed, including two police officers, and 11 were
wounded. Two days later, four were murdered in a Jewish Deli. In November of
2015, terrorists went on a shooting rampage in Paris that slaughtered 130
people, and wounded another 368. France is suffering gravely, and the tourism
industry is being massively affected in a most negative way. In March of this
year, terrorists detonated a bomb in the Brussels airport, killing 32 and
injuring 340. This July, in the South of France, an Islamic terrorist turned
his truck into an instrument of mass murder, plowing down and killing 85 men,
women and children – and wounding another 308. Among the dead were 2 Americans
– a Texas father, and his 11-year-old son. A few weeks ago, in Germany, a
refugee armed with an axe wounded five people in a gruesome train attack. Only
days ago, an ISIS killer invaded a Christian church in Normandy France, forced
an 85-year-old priest to his knees, and slit his throat before his
congregation.
Overseas, ISIS has carried out one unthinkable atrocity
after another. Children slaughtered, girls sold into slavery, men and women
burned alive. Crucifixions, beheadings and drownings. Ethnic minorities
targeted for mass execution. Holy sites desecrated. Christians driven from
their homes and hunted for extermination. ISIS rounding up what it calls the
“nation of the cross” in a campaign of genocide.
We cannot let this evil continue. Nor can we let the
hateful ideology of Radical Islam – its oppression of women, gays, children,
and nonbelievers – be allowed to reside or spread within our own countries.
We will defeat Radical Islamic Terrorism, just as we have
defeated every threat we have faced in every age before. But we will not defeat
it with closed eyes, or silenced voices. Anyone who cannot name our enemy, is
not fit to lead this country. Anyone who cannot condemn the hatred, oppression
and violence of Radical Islam lacks the moral clarity to serve as our
President.
The rise of ISIS is the direct result of policy decisions
made by President Obama and Secretary Clinton.
* YEP. ABSOLUTELY! AND TO THOSE WHO WANT TO GO BACK TO
BUSH AND THE INVASION OF IRAQ... WELL... HERE'S THE THING, FOLKS: THEN-SENATOR
HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON VOTED TO GIVE GEORGE W. BUSH THE AUTHORITY TO INVADE
IRAQ. HILLARY AND BILL CLINTON SUPPORTED THE IRAQ WAR... AT FIRST. BOTH HILLARY
AND BILL CLINTON PUBLICLY - OFTEN IN FACT - "VERIFIED" BUSH'S CHARGE
THAT SADDAM HUSSEIN WAS WORKING ON DEVELOPING WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION.
Let’s look back at the Middle East at the very beginning
of 2009, before the Obama-Clinton Administration took over. Libya was stable. Syria
was under control. Egypt was ruled by a secular President and an ally of the
United States. Iraq was experiencing a reduction in violence. The group that
would become what we now call ISIS was close to being extinguished. Iran was
being choked off by economic sanctions.
Fast-forward to today. What have the decisions of
Obama-Clinton produced?
Libya is in ruins, our ambassador and three other brave
Americans are dead, and ISIS has gained a new base of operations.
Syria is in the midst of a disastrous civil war. ISIS
controls large portions of territory. A refugee crisis now threatens Europe and
the United States.
In Egypt, terrorists have gained a foothold in the Sinai
desert, near the Suez Canal, one of the most essential waterways in the world.
Iraq is in chaos, and ISIS is on the loose.
ISIS has spread across the Middle East, and into the
West.
In 2014, ISIS was operating in some 7 nations. Today they
are fully operational in 18 countries with aspiring branches in 6 more, for a
total of 24 – and many believe it is even more than that.
The situation is likely worse than the public knows: a
new Congressional report reveals that the Administration has downplayed the
growth of ISIS, with 40% of analysts saying they had experienced efforts to
manipulate their findings.
(*PURSED LIPS*)
At the same time, ISIS is trying to infiltrate refugee
flows into Europe and the United States.
* FOLKS... AGAIN... REALITY: THERE WAS NO
"ISIS" OR "ISIL" BACK WHEN GEORGE W. BUSH WAS PRESIDENT.
THERE CERTAINLY WAS NO CALIPHATE!
Iran, the world’s largest state sponsor of terrorism, is
now flush with $150 billion in cash released by the United States – plus
another $400 million in ransom. Worst of all, the Nuclear deal puts Iran, the
number one state sponsor of Radical Islamic Terrorism, on a path to nuclear
weapons.
In short, the Obama-Clinton foreign policy has unleashed
ISIS, destabilized the Middle East, and put the nation of Iran – which chants
‘Death to America’ – in a dominant position of regional power and, in fact,
aspiring to be a dominant world power.
It all began in 2009 with what has become known as
President Obama’s global "Apology Tour." In a series of speeches,
President Obama described America as “arrogant,” “dismissive” “derisive” and a
“colonial power.” He informed other countries that he would be speaking up
about America’s “past errors.” He pledged that we would no longer be a “senior
partner,” that “sought to dictate our terms.” He lectured CIA officers of the
need to acknowledge their mistakes, and described Guantanamo Bay as a “rallying
cry for our enemies.” Perhaps no speech was more misguided than President
Obama’s speech to the Muslim World delivered in Cairo, Egypt, in 2009.
In winning the Cold War, President Ronald Reagan
repeatedly touted the superiority of freedom over communism, and called the
USSR the Evil Empire. Yet, when President Obama delivered his address in Cairo,
no such moral courage could be found. Instead of condemning the oppression of
women and gays in many Muslim nations, and the systematic violations of human
rights, or the financing of global terrorism, President Obama tried to draw an
equivalency between our human rights record and theirs.
His naïve words were followed by even more naïve actions.
The failure to establish a new Status of Forces Agreement
in Iraq, and the election-driven timetable for withdrawal, surrendered our
gains in that country and led directly to the rise of ISIS.
The failures in Iraq were compounded by Hillary Clinton’s
disaster in Libya.
President Obama has since said he regards Libya as his
worst mistake. According to then-Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, the
invasion of Libya was nearly a split decision, but Hillary Clinton’s forceful
advocacy for the intervention was the deciding factor.
With one episode of bad judgment after another, Hillary
Clinton’s policies launched ISIS onto the world. Yet, as she threw the Middle
East into violent turmoil, things turned out well for... her.
The Clintons made almost $60 million in gross income
while she was Secretary of State.
(*PURSED LIPS*)
Incident after incident proves again and again: Hillary
Clinton lacks the judgement, the temperament and the moral character to lead
this nation.
Importantly, she also lacks the mental and physical
stamina to take on ISIS, and all the many adversaries we face – not only in
terrorism, but in trade and every other challenge we must confront to turn this
country around.
It is time for a new approach. Our current strategy of
nation-building and regime change is a proven failure. We have created the
vacuums that allow terrorists to grow and thrive.
I was an opponent of the Iraq war from the beginning – a
major difference between me and my opponent.
Though I was a private citizen, whose personal opinions
on such matters was not sought, I nonetheless publicly expressed my private
doubts about the invasion. Three months before the invasion I said, in an
interview with Neil Cavuto, to whom I offer my best wishes for a speedy
recovery, that “perhaps we shouldn’t be doing it yet,” and that “the economy is
a much bigger problem.”
In August of 2004, very early in the conflict, I made a
detailed statement to Esquire magazine. Here is the quote in full:
“Look at the war in Iraq and the mess that we’re in. I
would never have handled it that way. Does anybody really believe that Iraq is
going to be a wonderful democracy where people are going to run down to the
voting box and gently put in their ballot and the winner is happily going to
step up to lead the country? C’mon. Two minutes after we leave, there’s going
to be a revolution, and the meanest, toughest, smartest, most vicious guy will
take over. And he’ll have weapons of mass destruction, which Saddam didn’t
have."
“What was the purpose of this whole thing? Hundreds and
hundreds of young people killed. And what about the people coming back with no
arms and legs? Not to mention the other side. All those Iraqi kids who’ve been
blown to pieces. And it turns out that all of the reasons for the war were
blatantly wrong. All this for nothing.”
So I have been clear for a long time that we should not
have gone in.
But I have been just as clear in saying what a catastrophic
mistake Hillary Clinton and President Obama made with the reckless way in which
they pulled out.
After we had made those hard-fought sacrifices and gains,
we should never have made such a sudden withdrawal on a timetable advertised to
our enemies.
Al Qaeda in Iraq had been decimated, and Obama and
Clinton gave it new life and allowed it to spread across the world.
By that same token, President Obama and Hillary Clinton
should never have attempted to build a Democracy in Libya, to push for
immediate regime change in Syria or to support the overthrow of Mubarak in
Egypt.
* AGREED.
One more point on this. I have long said that we should
have kept the oil in Iraq – another area where my judgement has been proven
correct.
According to CNN, ISIS made as much $500 million in oil
sales in 2014 alone, fueling and funding its reign of terror.
If we had controlled the oil, we could have prevented the
rise of ISIS in Iraq – both by cutting off a major source of funding, and
through the presence of U.S. forces necessary to safeguard the oil and other
vital infrastructure.
I was saying this constantly and to whoever would listen:
keep the oil, keep the oil, keep the oil, I said – don’t let someone else get
it. If they had listened to me then, we would have had the economic benefits of
the oil, which I wanted to use to help take care of the wounded soldiers and
families of those who died – and thousands of lives would have been saved. This
proposal, by its very nature, would have left soldiers in place to guard our
assets. In the old days, when we won a war, to the victor belonged the spoils.
Instead, all we got from Iraq – and our adventures in the Middle East – was
death, destruction and tremendous financial loss. But it is time to put the
mistakes of the past behind us, and chart a new course.
If I become President, the era of nation-building will be
ended.
Our new approach, which must be shared by both parties in
America, by our allies overseas, and by our friends in the Middle East, must be
to halt the spread of Radical Islam. All actions should be oriented around this
goal, and any country which shares this goal will be our ally. We cannot always
choose our friends, but we can never fail to recognize our enemies.
As President, I will call for an international conference
focused on this goal. We will work side-by-side with our friends in the Middle
East, including our greatest ally, Israel. We will partner with King Abdullah
of Jordan, and President Sisi of Egypt, and all others who recognize this
ideology of death that must be extinguished. We will also work closely with
NATO on this new mission. I had previously said that NATO was obsolete because
it failed to deal adequately with terrorism; since my comments they have
changed their policy and now have a new division focused on terror threats.
* FOLKS... THE ONLY REASON TO KEEP NATO IS TO AVOID THE
EUROPEANS DOING ANYTHING TOO STUPID IF CUT LOOSE. I ONLY WISH TRUMP COULD BE AS HONEST AS I
CAN BE... BUT... HE CAN'T BE.
(*SHRUG*)
I also believe that we could find common ground with
Russia in the fight against ISIS. They too have much at stake in the outcome in
Syria, and have had their own battles with Islamic terrorism.
* VERY GOOD!
My Administration will aggressively pursue joint and
coalition military operations to crush and destroy ISIS, international
cooperation to cutoff their funding, expanded intelligence sharing, and cyber-warfare
to disrupt and disable their propaganda and recruiting. We cannot allow the
internet to be used as a recruiting tool, and for other purposes, by our enemy;
we must shut down their access to this form of communication, and we must do so
immediately.
Unlike Hillary Clinton, who has risked so many lives with
her careless handling of sensitive information, my administration will not
telegraph exact military plans to the enemy. I have often said that General
MacArthur and General Patton would be in a state of shock if they were alive
today to see the way President Obama and Hillary Clinton try to recklessly
announce their every move before it happens – like they did in Iraq – so that
the enemy can prepare and adapt.
The fight will not be limited to ISIS. We will decimate
Al Qaeda, and we will seek to starve funding for Iran-backed Hamas and
Hezbollah. We can use existing UN Security Council resolutions to apply new
sanctions.
Military, cyber and financial warfare will all be
essential in dismantling Islamic terrorism. But we must use ideological warfare
as well, just as we won the Cold War, in part, by exposing the evils of
communism and the virtues of free markets, so too must we take on the ideology
of Radical Islam.
While my opponent accepted millions of dollars in
Foundation donations from countries where being gay is an offense punishable by
prison or death, my Administration will speak out against the oppression of
women, gays and people of different faith.
Our Administration will be a friend to all moderate
Muslim reformers in the Middle East, and will amplify their voices. This
includes speaking out against the horrible practice of honor killings, where
women are murdered by their relatives for dressing, marrying or acting in a way
that violates fundamentalist teachings.
Over 1,000 Pakistani girls are estimated to be the
victims of honor killings by their relatives each year. Recently, a prominent
Pakistani social media star was strangled to death by her brother on the charge
of dishonoring the family. In his confession, the brother took pride in the
murder and said: “Girls are born to stay home and follow traditions.”
Shockingly, this is a practice that has reached our own
shores. One such case involves an Iraqi immigrant who was sentenced to 34 years
in jail for running over his own daughter claiming she had become “too
Westernized.” To defeat Islamic terrorism, we must also speak out forcefully
against a hateful ideology that provides the breeding ground for violence and
terrorism to grow.
A new immigration policy is needed as well. The common
thread linking the major Islamic terrorist attacks that have recently occurred
on our soil – 9/11, the Ft. Hood shooting, the Boston Bombing, the San
Bernardino attack, the Orlando attack – is that they have involved immigrants
or the children of immigrants. Clearly, new screening procedures are needed.
* YEP. PRETTY OBVIOUS TO ANYONE WHO ISN'T FRIGGIN' NUTS!
A review by the U.S. Senate Immigration Subcommittee has
identified 380 foreign-born individuals charged with terrorism or terrorism related
offenses between 9/11 and 2014 - and many more since then. We also know that
ISIS recruits refugees after their entrance into the country – as we have seen
with the Somali refugee population in Minnesota. Beyond terrorism, as we have
seen in France, foreign populations have brought their anti-Semitic attitudes
with them. Pew polling shows that in many of the countries from which we draw
large numbers of immigrants, extreme views about religion – such as the death
penalty for those who leave the faith – are commonplace.
A Trump Administration will establish a clear principle
that will govern all decisions pertaining to immigration: we should only admit
into this country those who share our values and respect our people.
* COMMON... FRIGGIN'... SENSE!
In the Cold War, we had an ideological screening test.
The time is overdue to develop a new screening test for the threats we face
today. 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. Those who do not believe in our Constitution, or who support
bigotry and hatred, will not be admitted for immigration into the country. Only
those who we expect to flourish in our country – and to embrace a tolerant
American society – should be issued visas.
* MAKES PERFECT FRIGGIN' SENSE TO ME!
To put these new procedures in place, we will have to
temporarily suspend immigration from some of the most dangerous and volatile
regions of the world that have a history of exporting terrorism.
* FOLKS... NOTICE... TRUMP SOMETIMES USES THE WORD "VISA,"
SOMETIMES THE WORD "ENTRY," BUT WHEN HE'S TALKING IMMIGRATION HE'S
TALKING IMMIGRATION AND NATURALIZATION.
As soon as I take office, I will ask the State Department
and the Department of Homeland Security to identify a list of regions where
adequate screening cannot take place. We will stop processing visas from those
areas until such time as it is deemed safe to resume based on new circumstances
or new procedures.
* AGAIN... SOUNDS PRETTY FRIGGIN' REASONABLE TO ME...
(*SHRUG*)
The size of current immigration flows are simply too
large to perform adequate screening.
* TRUE!
We admit about 100,000 permanent immigrants from the
Middle East every year. Beyond that, we admit hundreds of thousands of
temporary workers and visitors from the same regions. If we don’t control the
numbers, we can’t perform adequate screening.
By contrast... my opponent wants to increase the flow of
Syrian refugees by 550% percent.
The United States Senate Subcommittee on Immigration
estimates that Hillary Clinton’s plan would mean roughly 620,000 refugees from
all current refugee-sending nations in her first term, assuming no cuts to
other refugee programs. This would be additional to all other non-refugee
immigration. The Subcommittee estimates her plan would impose a lifetime cost
of roughly $400 billion when you include the costs of healthcare, welfare,
housing, schooling, and all other entitlement benefits that are excluded from
the State Department’s placement figures. 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.
We have enough problems in our country, we don’t need
another one.
Finally, we will need to restore common sense to our
security procedures. Another common feature of the past attacks that have
occurred on our soil is that warning signs were ignored. The 9/11 hijackers had
fraud all over their visa applications. The Russians warned us about the Boston
Bombers, here on political asylum, and the attackers were even twice
interviewed by the FBI. The female San Bernardino shooter, here on a fiancé
visa from Saudi Arabia, wrote of her support for Jihad online. A neighbor saw
suspicious behavior but didn’t warn authorities, because said they didn’t want
to be accused of racially profiling. Now many are dead and gravely wounded?
The shooter in Orlando reportedly celebrated in his
classroom after 9/11. He too was interviewed by the FBI. His father, a native
of Afghanistan, supported the oppressive Taliban regime and expressed
anti-American views. And by the way, [he] was just seen sitting behind Hillary
Clinton with a big smile on his face all the way through her speech. He
obviously liked what she had to say.
The Ft. Hood Shooter delivered a presentation to a room
full of mental health experts before the attacks in which he threw out one red
flag after another. He even proclaimed that “we love death more than you love
life!” These warnings signs were ignored because political correctness has
replaced common sense in our society. That is why one of my first acts as
President will be to establish a Commission on Radical Islam which will include
reformist voices in the Muslim community who will hopefully work with us. We
want to build bridges and erase divisions. The goal of the Commission will be
to identify and explain to the American public the core convictions and beliefs
of Radical Islam, to identify the warning signs of radicalization, and to
expose the networks in our society that support radicalization. This Commission
will be used to develop new protocols for local police officers, federal
investigators, and immigration screeners.
* SOUNDS REASONABLE TO ME...
We will also keep open Guantanamo Bay, and place a
renewed emphasis on human intelligence. Drone strikes will remain part of our
strategy, but we will also seek to capture high-value targets to gain needed
information to dismantle their organizations. Foreign combatants will be tried by
military commissions.
Finally, we will pursue aggressive criminal or
immigration charges against anyone who lends material support to terrorism.
Similar to the effort to take down the mafia, this will be the understood
mission of every federal investigator and prosecutor in the country.
To accomplish a goal, you must state a mission: The
support networks for Radical Islam in this country will be stripped out and
removed one by one.
Immigration officers will also have their powers
restored: those who are guests in our country that are preaching hate will be
asked to return home.
Our victory in the Cold War relied on a bipartisan and
international consensus. That is what we must have to defeat Radical Islamic
terrorism. But just like we couldn’t defeat communism without acknowledging
that communism exists – or explaining its evils – we can’t defeat Radical
Islamic Terrorism unless we do the same. This also means we have to promote the
exceptional virtues of our own way of life and expect that newcomers to our
society do the same. Pride in our institutions, our history and our values
should be taught by parents and teachers, and impressed upon all who join our
society. Assimilation is not an act of hostility, but an expression of
compassion. Our system of government and our American culture is the best in
the world and will produce the best outcomes for all who adopt it. This
approach will not only make us safer, but bring us closer together as a
country. Renewing this spirit of Americanism will help heal the divisions in
our country. It will do so by emphasizing what we have in common, not what
pulls us apart.
This is my pledge to the American people: As your
President... I will be your greatest champion.
I will fight to ensure that every American is treated
equally, protected equally, and honored equally.
We will reject bigotry and oppression in all its forms,
and seek a new future built on our common culture and values as one American people.
Only in this way will we make America great again and safe again... for everyone.
Thank you.
