Trump repeated – favorably – an apparent myth about how General John Pershing summarily executed dozens of Muslim prisoners in the Philippines with tainted ammunition during a guerilla war against the occupying United States.
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“You know, I read a story, it’s a awful story, but I’ll tell you”. And the 50th person, he said: You go back to your people, and you tell them what happened. After this story, Trump warns the audience that we have to get tougher, or “we’re not gonna have a country, folks”.
Should we be too shocked that Donald Trump is using a widely debunked story to peddle anti-Muslim sentiment? Seventy-five percent of Republican voters in SC agree with the real estate mogul, according to a CBS News exit poll. He made clear that as far as he is concerned, waterboarding should be the starting off point and not the limit when it comes to torture tactics.
There are so many things in this statement to be offended about, including the apparent in authenticity of Trump’s favorite nighttime story.
Prominent US Muslim advocacy groups, including the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), quickly responded to Trump’s speech.
Trump then outlined the story, which was described afterward as a legend that has been often told but never proven to have happened. “They must think we are the dumbest and the weakest and the stupidest people on earth, on earth – On Earth!”
“We’re in a very weird year”, Rubio said in comments transcribed by Greenville Online.
He tied the San Bernardino shooting into an argument over gun rights, saying the body count could have been minimized if the office workers who were murdered had been armed.
Trump criticized his Republican rivals for not embracing waterboarding as enthusiastically as he has, which he says sends the wrong message to terrorists who use barbaric techniques like chopping off the heads of their foes.
Protestors from New York City who call themselves “Dump Across America” argued with Trump’s loyal supporters outside the convention center.
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Mr. Trump told Mr. Jones: “Your reputation is unbelievable”. “It’s borderline”, Trump said.
