Posted on 04/27/2016 11:04:05 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
WASHINGTON (AP) -- In a rare formal policy speech, Republican front-runner Donald Trump vowed Wednesday to put American security "above all else" if elected president, warning allies they would be left to defend themselves if they don't "pay their fair share." He also called for an easing of tensions with Russia "from a position of strength, only."
"'America first' will be the major and overriding theme of my administration," Trump said in a 38-minute address at a Washington hotel.
Trump - fresh off a sweep of five Northeastern primaries that pushed him closer to the GOP nomination - sought to expand on foreign policy views that have lacked detail and worried experts in both parties. Still, he left major questions about his proposals unanswered, including his plan for defeating the Islamic State group, casting his sparse details as a strategy for catching America's enemies off guard.
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When he starts manufacturing his his brand of clothing in America, then I’ll take his “America first” rhetoric seriously.
...casting his sparse details as a strategy for catching America’s enemies off guard.
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Gee, such a radical concept. AP doesn’t like it that Trump would not announce in advance information such as troop withdrawal dates.
“The nation-state remains the true foundation of happiness and harmony.”
Donald Trump, April 27th, 2016
I found it interesting that all of the remaining candidates will be invited to give their own versions of ‘Foreign Policy’ in a speech at the same venue.
I think that most of them will decline to speak. They would find themselves being compared to Trump over and over again. And these are all people with massive egos, being compared to Trump just isn’t in their mental makeup.
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