Just dropped · Trial Balloon · Ep. 192
November Surprises
“Donald Trump went even further in his support of waterboarding and other barred interrogation techniques Wednesday, saying that as president he would use torture in the fight against terrorism,” the Washington Post reports.
Said Trump: “Don’t tell me it doesn’t work — torture works.”
Trump said that he would “immediately” resume waterboarding and other techniques that are “much worse” because the United States is facing a barbaric enemy.
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