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Trump proposes ‘extreme vetting’

Now with added extreme.
Now with added extreme. Photograph: Gerald Herbert/AP

1. Trump’s fortress America

It’s no longer just a Muslim ban. Donald Trump proposed on Monday a radical new test for immigrants and visitors to the United States from places deemed suspect that he did not name.

Trump’s ‘extreme vetting’

Trump’s Monday crowd, feeling the extreme.
Trump’s Monday crowd, feeling the extreme. Photograph: Jeff Swensen/Getty Images

Summary

In Trump’s imagination, authorities would screen for potential immigrants who sympathize with terrorists, who “do not believe in our constitution” or whom “we do not expect to flourish in our country.”

Campaigning for Trump in Israel

Extreme swag.
Extreme swag. Photograph: Dominick Reuter/AFP/Getty Images

'Extreme, extreme vetting'

I call it extreme vetting. I call it extreme, extreme vetting. Our country has enough problems. We don’t need more.

– Donald Trump

Summary

2. Manafort denies dirty cash

Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort dismissed a “silly” New York Times report that he may have received millions in cash from a former Ukrainian kleptocrat. But ex-Trump aide Corey Lewandowski tweeted the report.

On the level.
On the level. Photograph: Carlo Allegri/Reuters

Summary

3. Biden: Trump untrustworthy

In his first campaign event with Hillary Clinton since she was nominated for president, vice-president Joe Biden said Trump could not be trusted with the nuclear codes.

Opinion: No to Jill Stein

SWAK.
SWAK. Photograph: Carolyn Kaster/AP

Summary

There’s a guy who follows me, right back here, who has the nuclear codes. God forbid...

[Trump’s] not qualified to know the code! He can’t be trusted.

– Vice-president Joe Biden

Summary

4. Clinton on friendship

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