Donald Trump and Ted Cruz are running to be the Republican nominee for President of the United States.
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The billionaire businessman said authorities “should be able to do whatever they have to do” to gain information in an effort to thwart future attacks.
“Waterboarding would be fine”.
“They’re protecting each other, but they’re really doing very bad damage – they have to open up to society and report the bad ones”, Mr. Trump said. Critics call it torture. Ted Cruz’s proposals – Cruz said law enforcement should “patrol and secure” Muslim neighborhoods – were heavy-handed, likely illegal and could potentially deepen radicalization. They want us to suspect, to racially and religiously profile, discriminate against, and attack all Muslims.
But more to the point, since this is all just theatre anyway: Nobody can be a better fake tough person than Donald Trump.
The Missouri Chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) condemned the terrorists attacks in Brussels Wednesday. Trump, who has proposed a temporary ban on foreign Muslims entering the US, said “nothing’s nice” about techniques such as waterboarding, which simulates drowning. “The notion that we would start down that slippery slope makes absolutely no sense”, Obama said.
It’s an escalation of the back-and-forth between the two.
“Brussels was one of the great cities, one of the most handsome cities of the world 20 years ago, it was unbelievable actually, and safe”, Trump says in the video. It’s not unilateral and preemptive surrender. After Tuesday’s contests, Trump had 738 of the 1,237 delegates needed to win the nomination, according to The New York Times.
Earlier attacks in Paris and San Bernardino, California, have pushed security issues to the forefront of the White House campaign debate.
In his defense, who among us isn’t supporting – and simultaneously suing – a presidential candidate? “One thing we know that does not work is offensive, inflammatory rhetoric that demonizes all Muslims”, she added, calling Muslims a “first line of defense” against terrorism.
His statements targeting Muslims has now drawn fire from several individuals and groups. “That would be unconstitutional – it would be wrong”, Sanders said. “It was radical Islamic terrorism and it was (the Islamic State group) that has declared jihad and is waging war on us”.
“It’s important that this is not an official video”, Charlie Winter, an expert on jihadist propaganda and a senior research associate at Georgia State University’s Transcultural and Violence Initiative, told Business Insider in an email.
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However, anti-Trump forces among the Republican Party establishment have been suffering setbacks, since Trump is far ahead of all his potential challengers in the popular Republican primary vote nationwide.
