Donald Trump says he’d bring back waterboarding

“Look, Donald Trump says these things to prey on people’s fears, their anger, their frustration with Washington”.

On Tuesday, Trump’s chief counsel, Michael Cohen, stood by the comments despite the fact that there’s no evidence to back up the claims and that accuracy matters in a presidential race.

“The other thing I predicted is terrorism”, he told the crowd before elaborating on a longer story of a friend who told him the same. Trump said this prediction was made in one of his books and his foresight was recently pointed out by a “very political” friend.

Republican candidate Jeb Bush claimed for example that “Florida led the nation in job creation” while he was governor – a statement given a “four Pinocchios” rating as false by the Washington Post’s fact-checker.

Never mind that “terrorism”, both radical-Islamic and otherwise, had already existed well before then – including the bombing of New York City’s World Trade Center in 1993 by al-Qaeda-linked fundamentalists.

Carson: I saw the film of it, yes. I, like the rest of the country, watched the news non-stop for days, weeks after the attacks. “It’s about vision, folks”. We’d have two handsome buildings standing there right now. “We should have taken him out”. Last year, the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee released a report that said “the use of the CIA’s enhanced interrogation techniques was not an effective means of obtaining accurate information or gaining detainee cooperation”.

Trump, who caused a media storm this week by suggesting for all Muslims in the United States to register, ignited another controversy after saying he would bring back waterboarding in interrogations of suspected terrorists.

Trump is by far the leader on the economy, judged best able to handle it by 49% of Republicans – far ahead of Cruz’s second-place showing at 11%.

One of the conclusions of the Growth and Opportunity Project was that Republican candidates have been so busy venerating Ronald Reagan that they haven’t taken time to figure out what comes next.

The agenda being trying to determine if Dr. Ben Carson, like Donald Trump, is an unhinged lunatic with little grasp on our own reality. “Many people jumped. And I witnessed it. I watched that”. We know if there’s something going, report ’em.

On Saturday, he told supporters at a rally in Alabama that he witnessed thousands of Muslim Americans in New Jersey cheering as the World Trade Center towers collapsed on 9/11.

“He does not believe Muslim Americans in New Jersey were celebrating the fall of the Twin Towers”, Carson spokesman Doug Watts said.