Donald Trump: I’ll bring back waterboarding to stop the Syrian refugee ‘Trojan

“Donald Trump says if he’s elected president, he’ll bring back enhanced interrogation techniques like waterboarding for enemy combatants”. We want to go with watch lists.

Trump said he wanted a return to a controversial program used by NY City police to spy on mosques and Muslim communities prior to 2014, when it was shut down when Mayor Bill de Blasio took office.

Insisting that the United States “would have to be strong”, Trump said that waterboarding Islamic State extremists would be “peanuts” compared with the group’s beheadings of American and British hostages.

“I agree that there’s no such thing as political correctness when you’re fighting an enemy who wants to destroy you and everything that you have anything to do with”, Carson said.

“You know, they don’t use waterboarding over there; they use chopping off people’s heads”, Mr Trump said Sunday on ABC’s This Week with George Stephanopoulos.

“That’s a whole different level and I would absolutely bring back interrogation and strong interrogation”, Trump added.

But Trump backtracked on comments about wanting a database of Muslims in the U.S.by clarifying that he would implement “surveillance” of people coming into the country. Trump’s response was unequivocal. “And big material and good material, from what I understood, from a very good source, was coming out of those mosques”, he said.

Trump also kept the door open to launching a third-party bid for the White House if he’s not treated “fairly”. “We don’t know if it’s a Trojan horse”.

“I think it’s pretty clear ISIS presents the real threat to our country, to the world”, he said, acknowledging at the same time the US can not abandon the goal of replacing Bashar Assad as Syria’s president, whom he described as “a very bad guy”.

Waterboarding is where a cloth is placed on the face of an individual and water is poured onto it so that it trickles into the air passages of the person, creating the feeling of drowning.

Last year, the Senate Intelligence Report found that waterboarding didn’t actually work in gleaning important information from detainees, though the CIA maintains that waterboarding helped the agency obtain information that eventually led to the location of 9/11 mastermind Osama bin Laden’s in Pakistan.