If Donald Trump is elected president in November he will bring back the respect America once had from other countries that has been lost under the leadership of Barack Obama, Oklahoma Republican Sen. James Inhofe tells
Newsmax TV.
Appearing Wednesday on "Newsmax Prime," Inhofe told host Miranda Khan that Trump met with 10 people in his Manhattan office last week who were specialists in areas ranging from defense, healthcare and others.
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"They went up there and spent the entire day and he listened carefully, asked the right questions very calmly. And he's trying to put himself in a position where he has firsthand knowledge of all these issues," Inhofe said. "The guy is smart. You have to admit that. He's in the business world. He's surrounded himself with experts."
Trump would likely do the same as president, the senator added.
Inhofe said he was happy to hear Trump use the term "radical Islam" in describing terrorists, something Obama has said his administration will not do because he says it gives groups such as ISIS the credibility they seek.
"He seems to embrace Islam wherever he goes," Inhofe said of Obama. "Even now after this tragedy took place in Orlando he won't recognize that it is."
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