Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi said he doesn’t anticipate that Donald Trump intends to follow through on his “extreme vetting” of Muslims, after meeting with the Republican presidential nominee earlier this week.
The United States in general already “conducts very strict security measures for everyone who wishes to visit it,” the Muslim president said during a CNN interview set to air Wednesday evening. “It’s also important for us to know that during election campaigns, many statements are made and many things are said. However, afterwards the actual governing of the country would be something different and it would be subject to many factors.”
The Trump campaign announced the Egyptian president and the Republican presidential nominee met Monday night, where the Republican presidential nominee reportedly expressed “his high regard for peace-loving Muslims.”
El-Sisi cautioned that his words should not be interpreted as him saying that Trump is simply adopting the stance in order to get elected, stating a politician’s “vision or point of view gets corrected” after spending time in office.
