“Somebody like Jeb, and others that are running against me – and by the way Hillary is another one; I mean, Hillary is a person who doesn’t have the strength or the stamina, in my opinion, to be president”, Trump said. He said he “would absolutely bring back interrogation and strong interrogation”.
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As for his latest hearty batch of bullshit, Trump dropped this doozy of misinformation on a crowd during a rally yesterday in Birmingham: “Hey, I watched when the World Trade Center came tumbling down”, Trump said.
“You know, they don’t use waterboarding over there; they use chopping off people’s heads”, Trump said Sunday on ABC’s “This Week with George Stephanopoulos”.
But when it comes to waterboarding, a form of torture that involves putting a cloth over someone’s head and then dumping water over that same cloth, the former The Apprentice star said, “Waterboarding is “peanuts” compared to what they do to us”.
Trump also doubled down on his calls for a database to monitor Muslims and the possibility of shuttering mosques.
Trump was also questioned Sunday about whether he would favor banning people on terrorist watch lists from obtaining firearms, to which he responded, “If somebody is on a watch list and an enemy of state and we know it’s an enemy of state, I would keep them away, absolutely”.
“You have very, very tough people that you’re dealing with”. I know it might be not politically correct for you to talk about it, but there were people cheering as that building came down – as those buildings came down – and that tells you something. “It was well covered at the time”.
While the portion of the convention center rented by Trump could hold several thousand, now about half of it is fenced off. Reporters will be confined to a pen from a half-an-hour before the speech to when Trump leaves.
Over the course of his campaign, he has sparred with popular figures like Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly and put forth controversial proposals such as a plan to build a wall along the US border with Mexico and get the Mexican government to pay for it. “And this guy started screaming by himself”.
Trump’s top dog standing was echoed in separate polls in the early voting states of Iowa, New Hampshire and SC.
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Trump also stoked fears among the Republican Party that if he does not capture the party’s nomination, he will seek a third-party run for president. But he said there was always concern about potential copycat attacks by homegrown violent extremists of the kind seen in the past. “If I’m treated fairly, I’m fine”, he said Sunday on “This Week”.
