Biden asserts Trump could trigger surge in anti-Americanism

“We are at an inflection point – the choices we make today will direct the future of our world”, Biden said.

Trump’s proposed plan to ban Muslims from entering the U.S., Biden will say, calls into question the U.S.’s standing as the “greatest democracy in the history of the world”.

“Terrorism and violent extremism is yet another example of the virulent, transnational dangers that require a sustained global response”, Biden said.

But Biden will also target the presumptive Republican nominee, even if not by name, arguing that by turning inward, or seeking “sound-bite solutions in a world defined by complexity”, the USA could “squander all of our hard-earned progress”.

Mr Biden’s attacks on Mr Trump as an isolationist, and others by Mr Obama and Defense Secretary Ash Carter represent an unusually early and vigorous assault on an opposing party’s presidential nominee. “Not empty bluster. Not a sense of entitlement that fundamentally disrespects our partners”.

But the vice president is particularly vocal about Trump’s proposal for a moratorium on Muslims travelling to the United States, saying that policy “plays into the narrative of extremists”. It was the worst mass shooting in modern US history. Not an attitude, insecurity of a bully.

“I hate the concept of profiling, but we have to start using common sense”, Trump said Sunday on CBS’s “Face the Nation”. He made similar remarks after the deadly shooting in San Bernardino, California, by a radicalized couple in December.

Vice President Joe Biden will speak momentarily on national security, and is expected, as only he can, to trash Donald Trump.

Referring to Mr Trump’s vow to erect a wall on the United States border with Mexico if elected, Mr Biden said that the most complex threats do not respect borders and a wall would destroy much of the progress the Obama administration had made with USA neighbours.

“Embracing Putin at a time of renewed Russian aggression I believe will call into question America’s longstanding commitment to Europe whole, free and at peace”, Biden said in his remarks, adding it also isn’t appropriate to “dust off the Cold War playbook”.

Although not naming Trump, the vice president will say: “Alienating 1.5 billion Muslims – the vast, vast majority of whom, at home and overseas, are peace-loving – will only make the problem worse”.

Biden said al Qaeda and the Islamic State’s terror attacks are a real threat that needs to be dealt with before listing five cities the terror organization ISIS has already attacked.

President Barack Obama, his vice president and defense secretary took aim on Monday at policies of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump they said would alienate Muslims globally along with USA allies and neighbors.

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