Trump Is a 'Recruiting Sergeant' for ISIS: Ex-CIA Chief

Trump Is a 'Recruiting Sergeant' for ISIS: Ex-CIA Chief

By Damien Sharkov at Newsweek

http://www.newsweek.com/trump-recruiting-sergeant-isis-ex-cia-chief-442017

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Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump is making Americans “less safe” with his anti-Islam rhetoric, a former U.S. intelligence chief told Al Jazeera.

Trump is endangering U.S. security by underpinning an “undying enmity” between Islam and the Western world, according to Michael Hayden, who headed the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and National Security Agency (NSA) under former president George W. Bush.

The reality TV star and real estate mogul has won over conservative U.S. voters in part by proposing and defending many controversial policies such as last year’s suggestion of a “total and complete shutdown of Muslims” entering the country.

Hayden believes that this propagates an image of the U.S. that Islamist groups such as the Islamic State militant group (ISIS) benefit from. Asked if this makes Trump a “recruiting sergeant” for ISIS, Hayden replied, “Yes.”



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