Donald Trump Supported The Iraq War In 2002

Donald Trump had a straightforward answer Friday for a question posed to him by CBS News’ chief White House correspondent Major Garrett.

The interview quickly moved past the subject of Iraq and Trump did not elaborate in that interview on his views on the Iraq war.

Throughout the campaign, Donald Trump has routinely boasted how he was the only person now running for the Republican nomination for president that was against George W. Bush’s war in Iraq.

“Yeah I guess so”, Trump responded, according to audio published by Buzzfeed News.

Trump tried to defend his position telling CNN’s Anderson Cooper that he “wasn’t a politician” at the time of the interview.

“Wall Street’s just gonna go up like a rocket, even beyond, and it’s gonna continue and, you know, we have a strong and powerful country and let’s hope it all works out”, Trump said.

Trump has repeatedly pointed to an interview he gave to Esquire Magazine in 2004, more than a year after the USA had already launched its military assault in Iraq, which was later also published in part by Reuters news service.

Asked if she has “always told the truth”, the Democratic contender had responded, “I’ve always tried to”.

Trump’s comments came during a CNN town hall in Columbia, South Carolina in which he participate alongside Republican hopefuls former Florida governor Jeb Bush and OH governor John Kasich ahead of the primary Saturday in the state.

Trump said his opponent had “fudged”. The real-estate mogul said “By the time the war started, I was against the war”. “By the time the war started, I was against it, and shortly after, I was really against it”, he said. “But I understood what she was saying”, Trump noted. “I think he said something much softer than was originally reported by the media”. “I was against that war”.