Donald Trump Says He Would Bring Back Waterboarding

During his ABC interview, Trump also said he was “not at all” backing away from comments he had made about establishing a database for Muslims in America, although he later said he was referring specifically to refugees.

Late last week, as was first reported on The Rachel Maddow Show, Donald Trump boasted that through “good management”, he could create a few kind of federal registry of Muslim Americans.

“Maybe he should have been roughed up because it was absolutely disgusting what he was doing”, Trump said Sunday morning on Fox News, less than 24 hours after his campaign said it “does not condone” the physical altercation. “Yeah you can get him out”, Trump said to applause.

“I would bring it back”.

“This was not handled the way Bernie Sanders handled his problem, I will tell you that”, Trump added. “And I’m not one who is real big on telling the enemy what we’re going to do and what we’re not going to do”.

“We have to be very, very vigilant”, he said. When the Syrian refugees are going to start pouring into this country, we don’t know if they’re ISIS, we don’t know if it’s a Trojan horse. “Somebody like Jeb, and others that are running against me – and by the way Hillary is another one”, he said. As we all know, the greatest threat to this country is black people asking not to be discriminated against and murdered. Thousands of people were cheering. Currently, someone one a terror watch list can legally purchase a gun in the U.S.

Responding to a question, Trump said he does not want to close mosques, but would keep a watch on them. “All I want to do is (have) a level playing field”.

Waterboarding is a near-drowning interrogation technique in which a person is strapped head downwards on a sloping board or bench with the mouth and nose covered, while large quantities of water are poured over the face.

“I have lot of fans and they were not happy about it”, he continued.

Mr Carson, who has said he favoured what he considered a fairly easy measure to undermine the Islamic State’s finances by destroying their oil fields, was questioned on that point after President Barack Obama said such methods aren’t so simple according to the “best military minds”.

Then-President George Bush banned the use of waterboarding in interrogation in 2006.