Trump warns French, Germans will face ‘extreme vetting’ entering US

Donald Trump has suggested that recent terror attacks in France and Germany were their “own fault” and said that citizens of the countries could be subjected to “extreme vetting” when entering the United States.

The Republican presidential nominee was speaking in an interview with NBC about a policy announced in his convention speech on Thursday in which he said that the US must apply “extreme vetting” to people from nations “compromised by terrorism”.

When asked if that might reach a point when not a lot of people from overseas are allowed in, Trump responded: “Maybe we get to that point.”

“France and Germany have been totally compromised by terrorism,” he said. “You know why? It’s their own fault because they allowed people to come into their territory.

“We have to be tough, we’re going to have tough standards. If a person can’t prove what they have to be able to prove they’re not coming into this country. That’s why Brexit happened OK? Because the UK is saying ‘We’re tired of this stuff, what’s going on? We’re tired of it.

“Here’s my plan, here is what I want, extreme vetting.”