- Trump on Brussels attack: ‘I would close our borders’
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump in Washington, DC.
DONALD Trump has reacted to the explosions that rocked Brussels by describing it as a “disaster
city” and warning that “this is just the beginning”.
Speaking on NBC’s TODAY, Trump said: “Belgium is no longer Belgium. Belgium is not the Belgium you and I knew from 20 years ago, which was one of the most beautiful and safest cities in the world.
“Belgium is a horror show right now. Terrible things are happening. People are leaving. People are afraid. This all happened because, frankly, there’s no assimilation.”
Belgium is a country, not a city, but we’ll put that aside. Trump wasted no time in saying the terror attacks were more evidence that governments needed to crack down on extremists with any means possible — even using waterboarding — and that immigration policies had failed.
“I would close up our borders,” he told Fox News.
“We are taking in people without real documentation. We don’t know where they’re from or who they are.
“We have to be very, very vigilant with who we let into this country,” Trump continued. “Brussels is a great example. Brussels was an absolutely crime-free city, one of the most beautiful cities in the world. And now you look at it and it’s just a disaster.”
Trump, who has made immigration and security issues central to his 2016 presidential bid,reiterated his call for the US to bring back waterboarding to interrogate suspected terrorists.
“I would use waterboarding,” he said on ABC’s Good Morning America.
“And I would try to expand the laws to go beyond waterboarding.”
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| Donald Trump says Brussels is now a “disaster city”. Source:AFP |
Asked what he would say to the American people in the immediate aftermath of a terror attack if he was president, he responded: “We are going to be very vigilant and tough. We’re not going to allow it to happen to our country.
“If it happens, we’ll find the people who did it and they’ll suffer greatly.”
The Republican frontrunner - who called for a temporary ban on all Muslims entering the United States last year following the terror attacks in Paris - said that authorities interrogating suspected Paris terror suspect Salah Abdeslam should “do whatever they have to do” to get information in light of Tuesday’s deadly attacks in Belgium, killing at least 34 people and leaving 250 wounded.
“You’ve got to take them out,” he said of the terrorist group that claimed responsibility for the Paris attacks. “And you’ve got to get the people, the surrounding states, you’ve got to get them to put up the manpower because that’s what it’s going to take.
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| Social media users are having fun with the famous Manneken Pis statue. Picture: @Helmer67 |
“We have a lot of people in our country right now that probably and definitely have the same feelings and the same feeling of hate as the people in Brussels,” Trump said.
Speaking to Fox News, Trump called Brussels a “disaster city”, and said: “We have to be very careful in the United States. We have to be very, very vigilant as to who we allow into this country.”
Meanwhile, Texas Senator Ted Cruz called for the United States to label its enemies, saying: “Radical Islam is at war with us.”
In a Facebook post, the Republican presidential hopeful said:
“For over seven years we have had a president who refuses to acknowledge this reality. And the truth is, we can never hope to defeat this evil so long as we refuse to even name it. That ends on January 20, 2017, when I am sworn in as president. We will name our enemy — radical Islamic terrorism. And we will defeat it.”
Ohio Gov. and fellow Republican presidential candidate John Kasich also issued a statement on the Brussels attacks, saying that the “perpetrators of such acts of evil” must be destroyed.
People walk away from the broken windows at Zaventem Airport in Brussels after Tuesday’s explosion. Source:AP
THE famous Belgian statue of a peeing boy
Source: http://www.news.com.au/finance/work/leaders/trump-on-brussels-attack-i-would-close-our-borders/news-story/36f5209fa517a496ef67e6c6e2e11e0d
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