Donald Trump Says He’d Bring Back Waterboarding

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump arrives at a town hall event Thursday, Sept. 17, 2015, in Rochester, N.H. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)
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Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said he’d bring back waterboarding on Sunday and called the practice “peanuts” compared to “what they’d do to us.”

Trump appeared on ABC’s “This Week” program where he said the country has to be “strong” against enemies.

“We have — I would bring it back, yes. I would bring it back,” Trump said. “I think waterboarding is peanuts compared to what they’d do to us, what they’re doing to us, what they did to James Foley when they chopped off his head. That’s a whole different level and I would absolutely bring back interrogation and strong interrogation.”

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  1. yeah that’s all i got

  2. Two thoughts.

    Thought one: Donald Trump does not have a character or intellect capable of considering moral and ethical issues any more than a newborn baby, a three-year-old, or some sort of primitive parasitic creature like a lamprey.

    Thought two: Fuck you, you piece of shit. Fuck you.

  3. The problem that i have with that statement is that a newborn is innocent, a three year old is learning and a lamprey serves a purpose. Donald is literally evolving into some sort of newly discovered creature whose only purpose is to fling s— on a wall with the hope that a majority will call it art.

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