Donald Trump stands by comments on waterboarding, Donald Trump, who has already proposed a ban on Muslims entering the United States, has injected addition awful arguable accountable into the presidential attack agitation on terrorism: acrid claiming techniques.
Trump on Sunday afresh his account in Saturday night’s agitation that he would seek to apply harsher claiming than waterboarding, which abounding critics ascertain as torture. He dedicated the position in interviews and acclimated the anticipation of subjecting alarm suspects to harsher analytic to whip up a army at a assemblage in Plymouth.
“How did you like my acknowledgment if I talked about waterboarding?” he asked as the army access into loud acclaim abreast the alpha of a accent in Plymouth. “Waterboarding is OK. And if we could get abundant worse than waterboarding, that would be OK, too.”
The army afresh animated loudly.
Trump has maintained his beloved cachet in the GOP primary challenge with proposals for accumulation deportations and architecture a bank on the Mexican border. He aswell wants to briefly block all Muslims from entering the United States to anticipate abeyant terrorists from bottomward through US clearing safeguards. Now he has reintroduced America’s agitation on advancing questioning, and the action over what constitutes torture, in the final canicule afore Tuesday’s New Hampshire primary.Waterboarding came up in the agitation sponsored by ABC on Saturday. If candidates were asked by moderators about their views, Trump said atrocities committed by the Islamic State accreditation a able response. “Not aback medieval times accept humans apparent what’s traveling on,” Trump said. “I would accompany aback waterboarding, and I’d accompany aback a hell of a lot worse than waterboarding.”
During an account on NBC’s “Meet the Press” Sunday, Trump banned to say what he meant by acceptance practices that were “a hell of a lot worse.”
“I’m not traveling to ascertain it to you on this program,” Trump replied. “But I would be actual abundant in favor of traveling above waterboarding.”
“It wouldn’t bother me even a little bit,” he added.
Waterboarding is a convenance of apish drowning that President George W. Bush’s administering accustomed in the after-effects of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. Some US intelligence admiral accept asserted the convenance helped anticipate added attacks, but that charcoal in dispute. For abounding Americans and political leaders, it marks a aphotic affiliate in contempo US history.
During Bush’s additional term, he banned the practice. President Obama, in one of his aboriginal acts afterwards getting affidavit into appointment in 2009, issued agnate bans on waterboarding and added forms of what abounding accede torture.
An Associated Columnist poll conducted in August 2013 begin that Americans were about analogously disconnected on whether ache could be justified with doubtable terrorists. But the polling aswell begin that Republicans are far added admiring than Democrats. Some 66 percent of Republicans accurate the use of “harsh claiming techniques” — compared with 53 percent of independents and 39 percent of Democrats.
Trump’s opponents accept attempted to yield a harder band on claiming techniques, while not traveling as far as Trump.
Senator Ted Cruz said on Saturday night that waterboarding “does not accommodated the about accustomed analogue of torture,” but added, “I would not accompany it aback in any array of boundless use.”
Jeb Bush, whose brother’s administering was absorbed in altercation over the issue, has said he would not aphorism out waterboarding.
Senator Marco Rubio abundantly abhorred the catechism if asked during an account on Sunday.
“We shouldn’t absolutely be discussing specific approach because it allows a agitator — actually — to plan for how they’ll be interrogated,” Rubio said on ABC News’ “This Week.”
Trump has bedeviled on all-overs a part of abounding Americans over agitation and killings in the Middle East, as the Islamic State has advertisement beheadings. The bank and absolute acreage mogul, at his assemblage Sunday, referenced James Foley, the kidnapped announcer collapsed by the Islamic State in August 2014. He grew up about 35 afar abroad in Wolfeboro, N.H.
“We are active in medieval times,” Trump told the army here. “There’s never been a time like this. I acclimated to apprehend in medieval times they’d chop your arch off. Even in the agrarian west, you’d get shot. They’d shoot you, but they wouldn’t chop your arch off. So now they chop your arch off.”
“I said to myself, ‘Waterboarding is atom compared with what they’re doing,’ ” he added.
As those who abounding his assemblage actuality began filing out of a amphitheater at Plymouth State University, abounding said they admired Trump’s message. It was clear. It was bold. He didn’t chip words.
“If the aggressive uses waterboarding to get information, I don’t accept a botheration with it,” said Gene Meier, a 53-year-old from New Hampton, N.H., who is “80 percent sure” he’ll vote for Trump. “It’s not like they’re putting a feel in a allurement and acid it off.”
Nearby Faye Daley sat on a bench, animated afterwards seeing Trump for the aboriginal time.
“These added countries cut our active off,” the 77-year-old from Bridgton, Maine, said. “Waterboarding is absolutely calm.”
But not far abroad was Will Hopkins, a 35-year-old US Army infantryman who fought in the Iraq War. He came to the assemblage acquisitive to columnist Trump on angle that he thinks are Islamaphobic.
“It’s horrible. Ache is absolutely unacceptable. Ache is not in the spirit of what America agency to me,” said Hopkins, an absolute from Belmont, N.H. “It’s absolutely barbaric. It’s absolutely unacceptable. It’s absolutely un-American.”
Trump on Sunday afresh his account in Saturday night’s agitation that he would seek to apply harsher claiming than waterboarding, which abounding critics ascertain as torture. He dedicated the position in interviews and acclimated the anticipation of subjecting alarm suspects to harsher analytic to whip up a army at a assemblage in Plymouth.
“How did you like my acknowledgment if I talked about waterboarding?” he asked as the army access into loud acclaim abreast the alpha of a accent in Plymouth. “Waterboarding is OK. And if we could get abundant worse than waterboarding, that would be OK, too.”
The army afresh animated loudly.
Trump has maintained his beloved cachet in the GOP primary challenge with proposals for accumulation deportations and architecture a bank on the Mexican border. He aswell wants to briefly block all Muslims from entering the United States to anticipate abeyant terrorists from bottomward through US clearing safeguards. Now he has reintroduced America’s agitation on advancing questioning, and the action over what constitutes torture, in the final canicule afore Tuesday’s New Hampshire primary.Waterboarding came up in the agitation sponsored by ABC on Saturday. If candidates were asked by moderators about their views, Trump said atrocities committed by the Islamic State accreditation a able response. “Not aback medieval times accept humans apparent what’s traveling on,” Trump said. “I would accompany aback waterboarding, and I’d accompany aback a hell of a lot worse than waterboarding.”
During an account on NBC’s “Meet the Press” Sunday, Trump banned to say what he meant by acceptance practices that were “a hell of a lot worse.”
“I’m not traveling to ascertain it to you on this program,” Trump replied. “But I would be actual abundant in favor of traveling above waterboarding.”
“It wouldn’t bother me even a little bit,” he added.
Waterboarding is a convenance of apish drowning that President George W. Bush’s administering accustomed in the after-effects of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. Some US intelligence admiral accept asserted the convenance helped anticipate added attacks, but that charcoal in dispute. For abounding Americans and political leaders, it marks a aphotic affiliate in contempo US history.
During Bush’s additional term, he banned the practice. President Obama, in one of his aboriginal acts afterwards getting affidavit into appointment in 2009, issued agnate bans on waterboarding and added forms of what abounding accede torture.
An Associated Columnist poll conducted in August 2013 begin that Americans were about analogously disconnected on whether ache could be justified with doubtable terrorists. But the polling aswell begin that Republicans are far added admiring than Democrats. Some 66 percent of Republicans accurate the use of “harsh claiming techniques” — compared with 53 percent of independents and 39 percent of Democrats.
Trump’s opponents accept attempted to yield a harder band on claiming techniques, while not traveling as far as Trump.
Senator Ted Cruz said on Saturday night that waterboarding “does not accommodated the about accustomed analogue of torture,” but added, “I would not accompany it aback in any array of boundless use.”
Jeb Bush, whose brother’s administering was absorbed in altercation over the issue, has said he would not aphorism out waterboarding.
Senator Marco Rubio abundantly abhorred the catechism if asked during an account on Sunday.
“We shouldn’t absolutely be discussing specific approach because it allows a agitator — actually — to plan for how they’ll be interrogated,” Rubio said on ABC News’ “This Week.”
Trump has bedeviled on all-overs a part of abounding Americans over agitation and killings in the Middle East, as the Islamic State has advertisement beheadings. The bank and absolute acreage mogul, at his assemblage Sunday, referenced James Foley, the kidnapped announcer collapsed by the Islamic State in August 2014. He grew up about 35 afar abroad in Wolfeboro, N.H.
“We are active in medieval times,” Trump told the army here. “There’s never been a time like this. I acclimated to apprehend in medieval times they’d chop your arch off. Even in the agrarian west, you’d get shot. They’d shoot you, but they wouldn’t chop your arch off. So now they chop your arch off.”
“I said to myself, ‘Waterboarding is atom compared with what they’re doing,’ ” he added.
As those who abounding his assemblage actuality began filing out of a amphitheater at Plymouth State University, abounding said they admired Trump’s message. It was clear. It was bold. He didn’t chip words.
“If the aggressive uses waterboarding to get information, I don’t accept a botheration with it,” said Gene Meier, a 53-year-old from New Hampton, N.H., who is “80 percent sure” he’ll vote for Trump. “It’s not like they’re putting a feel in a allurement and acid it off.”
Nearby Faye Daley sat on a bench, animated afterwards seeing Trump for the aboriginal time.
“These added countries cut our active off,” the 77-year-old from Bridgton, Maine, said. “Waterboarding is absolutely calm.”
But not far abroad was Will Hopkins, a 35-year-old US Army infantryman who fought in the Iraq War. He came to the assemblage acquisitive to columnist Trump on angle that he thinks are Islamaphobic.
“It’s horrible. Ache is absolutely unacceptable. Ache is not in the spirit of what America agency to me,” said Hopkins, an absolute from Belmont, N.H. “It’s absolutely barbaric. It’s absolutely unacceptable. It’s absolutely un-American.”
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