Donald Trump says they have been ‘compromised by terrorism’ (Picture: AP Photo/David Zalubowski)

Donald Trump has suggested that people from Germany and France heading to the U.S. could face ‘extreme vetting’ because the countries had been ‘compromised by terrorism.’

The presidential nominee was asked if his proposal might mean that ultimately far fewer people from overseas would be allowed into the U.S.

‘Maybe we get to that point,’ Trump said on Meet the Press, adding: ‘We have to be smart and we have to be vigilant and we have to be strong.’

ANOTHER atrocity in Germany as suicide bomber targets music festivalIn the NBC interview, Trump noted ‘specific problems’ in Germany and France and ‘Meet the Press’ host Chuck Todd asked if his proposal would limit immigration from France. ‘They’ve been compromised by terrorism,’ Todd said.




Trump replied: ‘They have totally been. And you know why? It’s their own fault. Because they allowed people to come into their territory.’ He then called for ‘extreme vetting’ and said: ‘We have to have 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.’

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Trump’s campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, played down the potential effects of Trump’s call for ‘extreme vetting’ for people coming from France and Germany. Manafort said the U.S. will have an easier time screening people from those countries because of long-standing ‘cooperative agreements.’

Pensioner ‘put boy in arm lock after he refused to take feet of seats’’He is calling for cooperative efforts to make sure that wherever people are coming in, that we know who they are and what they stand for,’ Manafort said told ‘Fox News Sunday.’

For months Trump has called for a temporary ban on foreign Muslims seeking to enter the United States and criticized the Obama administration for continuing to admit refugees from Syria.

In his speech on Thursday night at the Republican National Convention, he said the U.S. ‘must immediately suspend immigration from any nation that has been compromised by terrorism until such time as proven vetting mechanisms have been put in place’ – notably leaving out any reference to Muslims or to Syria, Iraq and other Middle East nations.