DONALD TRUMP IS THE FRONTRUNNER IN THE REPUBLICAN....

Donald Trump is the frontrunner in the Republican
race to be the presidential nominee for next year's
election. What are his policies and beliefs?
1. Arab-Americans cheered the attacks on 9/11.
Trump repeatedly claimed that on 11 September,
2001, there were thousands of Arab-Americans
celebrating in New Jersey after two planes flew
into the Twin Towers. He says such public
demonstrations "tell you something" about Muslims
living in the US. However, there are no media
reports to back up the claim.
2. There should be surveillance on US mosques.
Trump believes Muslims should be tracked by law
enforcement as a counterterrorism initiative. He
has walked back some comments about keeping a
database on all American Muslims, but says he
doesn't care if watching mosques is seen as
"politically incorrect".
3. The US should use waterboarding and other
methods of "strong interrogation" in its fight
against the Islamic State. The candidate said that
these methods are "peanuts" compared to the
tactics used by the militants, such as beheadings.
4. Trump would "bomb the hell" out of IS. He
claims that no other candidate would be tougher on
the Islamic State and he would weaken the
militants by cutting off their access to oil.
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5. Create a simpler tax code. Trump wants anyone
who earns less than $25,000 (£16,524) to pay no
income tax. They would submit nothing more than a
single page tax form that reads "I win" . He would
lower the business tax to 15%. He would also allow
multinational companies keeping money overseas to
repatriate their cash at a 10% tax rate.
6. Hedge fund managers are "getting away with
murder" under the current US tax code. Trump
found common ground with Democrats like Senator
Elizabeth Warren when he said that hedge fund
managers and the ultra-wealthy do not pay enough
taxes. However, after the campaign released
specifics of his plan, analysts argued that hedge
fund managers would actually get a tax cut along
with the middle class.
7. He wants to build a "great, great wall" between
the US and Mexico. In some of his earliest
campaign comments, Trump suggested that
Mexicans coming to the US are largely criminals.
"They are bringing drugs, and bringing crime, and
they're rapists," he said . A wall on the border, he
claims, will not only keep out undocumented
immigrants but Syrian migrants as well. He also
believes that Mexico should have to pay for the
wall, which a BBC analysis estimates could cost
between $2.2bn and $13bn .
8. A mass deportation of the estimated 11 million
illegal immigrants living in the US should go into
effect. Despite criticism that this idea is both
xenophobic and prohibitively expensive - the BBC
estimates $114bn - Trump says his deportation
plan is as achievable as it will be humane. In
addition, his immigration reforms would end
"birthright citizenship" , the policy that grants the
children of illegal immigrants citizenship so long as
they are born on American soil. He does not support
creating a new path to citizenship for
undocumented workers.
9. He and Vladmir Putin would "get along very
well". In an interview with CNN, Trump said that
Putin and Obama dislike one another too much to
negotiate, but that "I would probably get along
with him very well. And I don't think you'd be
having the kind of problems that you're having
right now".
10. In order to end mass shootings, the US should
invest in mental health treatment. However, Trump
does not believe that more gun control is the
answer. In a position paper on gun rights, Trump
revealed he has a concealed carry permit and that
when it comes to gun and magazine bans, "the
government has no business dictating what types of
firearms good, honest people are allowed to own".
He would also oppose an expansion of background
checks.
11. China should be taken to task on a number of
issues in order to make trade with the US more
equitable. If elected he says he will make China
stop undervaluing its currency, and force it to step
up its environmental and labour standards. He is
also critical of the county's lax attitude towards
American intellectual property and hacking.
12. The Black Lives Matter movement is "trouble".
Trump mocks Democratic candidates like Martin
O'Malley for apologising to members of the protest
movement against police brutality and casts
himself as a pro-law enforcement candidate. "I
think they're looking for trouble," he once said of
the activist group . He also tweeted a controversial
graphic purporting to show that African Americans
kill whites and blacks at a far higher rates than
whites or police officers. However, the graphic
cites a fictitious "Crime Statistics Bureau" for its
numbers, and has been widely debunked using real
FBI data.
13. Current unemployment statistics are wrong.
Trump has said repeatedly that unemployment in
the US is at 20% - once commenting it may be as
high as 42% - despite the fact that the Bureau of
Labor Statistics pegs the number at 5.1%. Trump
says he doesn't believe that figure is real.
14. His net worth is $10bn. Based on Trump's 92-
page personal financial disclosure form, Bloomberg
calculated that the real estate mogul is worth
about $2.9bn and Forbes put Trump's worth at $
4bn. In response, Trump insisted in a press release
that he is worth "in excess of TEN BILLION
DOLLARS" . He is self-funding his campaign and
describes his start in the business world as a "small
loan of a million dollars" from his father.
15. Veteran healthcare in the US needs a major
overhaul. Trump wants to clear out the executive
level in the Department of Veterans Affairs,
saying that wait times for doctor visits have only
increased after previous interventions failed.
Thousands of veterans have died while waiting for
care, he says. He will invest in the treatment of
"invisible wounds" like post-traumatic stress
disorder and depression. He would also increase the
number of doctors who specialise in women's health
to help care for the increasing number of female
veterans.
16. Obamacare is a "disaster" . Trump says he
favours repealing the president's Affordable Care
Act, which aims at extending the number of
Americans with health insurance, but he believes
that "everybody's got to be covered". A spokesman
for Trump told Forbes that he will propose "a
health plan that will return authority to the states
and operate under free market principles".
17. Climate change is just "weather". While Trump
believes that maintaining "clean air" and "clean
water" is important, he dismissed climate change
science as a "hoax" and believes environmental
restrictions on businesses makes them less
competitive in the global marketplace. "I do not
believe that we should imperil the companies within
our country," he told CNN on the issue. "It costs so
much and nobody knows exactly if it's going to
work."
18. The world would be better off if Saddam
Hussein and Muammar Gaddhafi were still in power.
Trump told CNN that he believes the situation in
both Libya and Iraq is "far worse" than it ever was
under the two deceased dictators. While he
concedes Saddam was a "horrible guy", he says he
did a better job combating terrorists.
19. He would send back Syrian migrants seeking
asylum in the US. He says that the Paris attacks
prove that even a handful of terrorists posing as
migrants could do catastrophic damage, and so he
will oppose resettling any Syrians in the US, and
deport those who have already been placed here.
20. Kim Davis should get another job. The Kentucky
clerk became a conservative cause when she was
jailed for refusing to issue marriage licences to
gay couples because of her Christian faith. But
Trump said: "I'm a very, very strong believer in
Christianity and religion, but I will say that this
was not the right job for her."
21. Muslims should not be admitted to the US. In a
press release published in the wake of the
terrorist attacks in San Bernardino, California,
Trump wrote that he is "calling for a total and
complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United
States until our country's representatives can
figure out what is going on". The release created a
huge backlash, including a petition submitted to
British Parliament demanding that Trump not be
allowed into the country.
22. He is a "really nice guy". In Trump's most
recent book, Crippled America, he writes that "I'm
a really nice guy, believe me, I pride myself on
being a nice guy but I'm also passionate and
determined to make our country great again". The
news site Gawker points out that he calls himself a
"nice guy" throughout the book, and Trump
repeated that self-assessment in his opening
monologue on Saturday Night Live and in an
interview with the Washington Post .