Donald Trump to elaborate on ISIS policy, Muslim ban in scripted Ohio speech

On Monday in Ohio, Donald Trump will give a speech on foreign policy and especially his strategy to defeat the Islamic State, according to advisers. Trump's vision will be grounded in "foreign policy realism," senior adviser Stephen Miller said Sunday, painting the battle against "radical Islamic terrorism" as being as serious as the Cold War, with Trump willing to work with any Middle Eastern country willing to join the fight against ISIS. "Mr. Trump's speech will explain that while we can't choose our friends, we must always recognize our enemies," Miller said, previewing the prepared remarks.

The Republican nominee will spend a good part of his speech criticizing President Obama and Hillary Clinton, advisers say, arguing that their foreign policy allowed ISIS to form and spread. Trump will also vow to scrap the idea of nation-building in the U.S., an unidentified senior adviser tells CNN, arguing that if the U.S. stop trying to "remake the Middle East into one democracy after another at the point of a gun," that would likely encourage further anti-ISIS cooperation and assistance from Middle Eastern nations. ("Obama has made ending nation building a central part of his foreign policy argument for years," The Associated Press notes.)

Trump is also expected to expand on his proposal to keep Islamist terrorists out of the U.S., tightening his original proposal to ban all Muslims but adding an ideological "test" for people wanting to enter the country. "As he laid out in his Orlando remarks, Mr. Trump will describe the need to temporarily suspend visa issuances to geographic regions with a history of exporting terrorism and where adequate checks and background vetting cannot occur," Miller said. As for the new test, Trump will reportedly seek to admit only those who support American values such as tolerance and pluralism. "Large numbers of people" in Afghanistan, for example, "may have attitudes about women or attitudes about Christians or gays that would be considered oppressive, even violent," the senior adviser tells CNN. "We have no reason to bring someone into our country who is going to harbor that hostility."

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