Trump Would Use ‘A Hell of a Lot Worse than Waterboarding’

Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump on Sunday stood by comments he made during the most recent GOP debate that he would have the US revive the controversial interrogation tactic of waterboarding.

“They’re chopping off heads of Christians and many other people in the Middle East”, Trump told CNN’s Jake Tapper on the “State of the Union” program.

The issue surfaced in the Republican primary debate in New Hampshire on Saturday night when moderators asked if candidates would bring back the now-banned technique of waterboarding, which involved strapping someone upside down on a board and simulating killing them by drowning.

What’s more, Trump says he’ll bring back “a hell of a lot worse”. “I mean you’ve been paying in for years and now they want to start chopping away”, Trump said Monday”.

Trump’s son followed up by telling Fox News that waterboarding “quite frankly is no different than what happens on college campuses and frat houses every day”.

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Florida Senator Marco Rubio declined to say definitively whether he would reinstitute the use of waterboarding.

Regardless of the outcome, Trump and Sanders prove once again that the New Hampshire primary is an effective megaphone of the nation’s discontent.

Trump responded by telling the television audience that the crowd was full of donors who were unhappy that he wouldn’t take their donations.

And so in some cases Sanders and Trump have also competed against each other for voters, rather than against their respective party rivals. Rubio has the next-best shot at 11 percent, followed by Kasich at 10 percent. He agrees with Sanders that the people on Wall Street should be in jail, he said. “We think it’s going to be a close election”.

“Let’s dispel with this fiction that Barack Obama doesn’t know what he’s doing”.

But Clinton has pressed the case that Sanders has a homefield advantage, because he comes from neighboring Vermont.

“The difference is: I can do something about it. I’m going to renegotiate those trade deals and I’m going to make them good”.

Earlier that morning, Ivanka shared another image of herself posing outside on the sidewalk in NY, where she and her family live, modeling the same chic ensemble as in New Hampshire – but with far less snow falling around her.