Hillary Clinton ‘absolutely bewildered’ by Donald Trump’s foreign policy plans

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"111265417"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"1">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><p>Hillary Clinton has vowed to conduct a national security and foreign policy that Americans could be proud of&comma; adding that Donald Trump &&num;8220&semi;just absolutely bewilders&&num;8221&semi; her when he talks about his policies around the globe&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The Democratic presidential candidate embraced the US Olympic team&&num;8217&semi;s success at a voter registration rally in Philadelphia&comma; describing it as an example of an optimistic nation that runs counter to what she considers Mr Trump&&num;8217&semi;s pessimism and negativity&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;It just absolutely bewilders me when I hear Donald Trump try to talk about national security&comma;&&num;8221&semi; Mrs Clinton said&comma; pointing to US vice president Joe Biden&&num;8217&semi;s dissection of Mr Trump&&num;8217&semi;s foreign policy at a Pennsylvania event on Monday&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;What &lpar;Trump&rpar; often says hurts us&period; It sends the wrong message to friend and foe alike&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Referring to the Olympic team&comma; she said&colon; &&num;8220&semi;Team USA is showing the world what this country stands for&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mr Trump said on Monday that the country&&num;8217&semi;s national security requirements demanded &&num;8220&semi;extreme&&num;8221&semi; vetting of immigrants seeking admission to the United States&comma; pointing to the threat of the Islamic State group &lpar;IS&rpar; and terrorism elements&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>However&comma; he offered few specifics about how the process might work or how it would be paid for by taxpayers&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mrs Clinton and Mr Trump have each sought the upper hand as the chief executive most capable of battling terrorism&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>While the GOP business mogul has vowed to project strength and decisive action against terror&comma; the former secretary of state has pointed to her deep foreign policy credentials and warned that Mr Trump could plunge the nation into another war&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mr Trump has previously called for an unprecedented temporary ban on Muslims entering the US&comma; and said in his Ohio speech that he would overhaul the nation&&num;8217&semi;s screening process and block those who sympathise with extremist groups or fail to embrace American values&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The Republican nominee has made changes to the nation&&num;8217&semi;s immigration system and the construction of a wall along the Mexican border a key part of his fight against terrorism and IS&comma; which he compared to the struggle against communism during the Cold War&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>As president&comma; Mr Trump said&comma; he would encourage immigrants to assimilate and urge parents&comma; teachers and others to promote &&num;8220&semi;American culture&&num;8221&semi;&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>However&comma; he declined to say which regions of the world would face &&num;8220&semi;extreme&&num;8221&semi; vetting and how federal agencies would go about conducting the review&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>On Tuesday&comma; Mr Trump was travelling to Milwaukee&comma; the site of ongoing protests over the fatal shooting of a black man by a black police officer&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>His visit follows several days of violence that has left businesses in flames and the Milwaukee police chief expressing surprise at the level of unrest&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mrs Clinton said during a stop in Scranton&comma; Pennsylvania&comma; on Monday that the Milwaukee protests showed the nation had &&num;8220&semi;urgent work to do to rebuild trust between police and communities&&num;8221&semi; and that &&num;8220&semi;everyone should have respect for the law and be respected by the law&&num;8221&semi;&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In an interview on Fox News Channel&comma; Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker accused Mrs Clinton of &&num;8220&semi;inflaming the situation&&num;8221&semi; with her comments&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;I think people understand in that neighbourhood and Sherman Park and in Milwaukee&comma; they want law enforcement to step up and protect them&comma;&&num;8221&semi; he said&comma; adding that &&num;8220&semi;statements like that&&num;8221&semi; from Mrs Clinton and a &&num;8220&semi;lack of leadership&&num;8221&semi; from President Barack Obama &&num;8220&semi;only inflame the situation&&num;8221&semi;&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mr Trump was expected to hold an event with veterans and law enforcement officers on Tuesday&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>While polls have shown Mrs Clinton building a lead following the Philadelphia convention&comma; Democrats are fearful that a depressed voter turnout might diminish support among the minority&comma; young and female voters who powered Mr Obama to two victories&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mrs Clinton said at the voter registration event at a Philadelphia high school that she is &&num;8220&semi;not taking anybody anywhere for granted&&num;8221&semi; in the race for the White House&comma; saying the stakes &&num;8220&semi;could not be higher&&num;8221&semi;&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>While guarding against complacency&comma; Mrs Clinton is also preparing for a potential administration&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Her campaign announced that former interior secretary Ken Salazar&comma; a former Colorado senator&comma; would chair her White House transition team&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>It will also include former national security adviser Tom Donilon&comma; former Michigan governor Jennifer Granholm and two long-time Clinton advisers&colon; Neera Tanden&comma; the president of the Centre for American Progress&comma; and Maggie Williams&comma; who now leads the Institute of Politics at Harvard University&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Her team&comma; which is being overseen by campaign chairman John Podesta&comma; will handle long-term planning for a potential Clinton White House should the former secretary of state win the election in November&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mr Trump has already tapped New Jersey Governor Chris Christie to lead his transition efforts&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>By law&comma; both nominees have access to national security and other federal government briefings&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div style&equals;"padding-bottom&colon;15px&semi;" class&equals;"wordads-tag" data-slot-type&equals;"belowpost">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div id&equals;"atatags-dynamic-belowpost-68ed2ab226906">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<script type&equals;"text&sol;javascript">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;getAdSnippetCallback &equals; function &lpar;&rpar; &lbrace;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;if &lpar; 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