You Won't Believe Trump's Take on Terror
Donald Trump is making his last minute pitch to South Carolina voters before the polls open tomorrow. He held a rally that hosted thousands when he touched on torture and terrorism. In typical Trump fashion, his comments were outrageous and shocking.
Here’s what he said according to MSNBC:
The standout topic, however, was terrorism and national security. Trump repeated – favorably – an apparent myth about how General John Pershing summarily executed dozens of Muslim prisoners in the Philippines with tainted ammunition during a guerilla war against the occupying United States.
“He took fifty bullets, and he dipped them in pig’s blood,” Trump said. “And he had his men load his rifles and he lined up the fifty people, and they shot 49 of those people. And the fiftieth person he said ‘You go back to your people and you tell them what happened.’ And for 25 years there wasn’t a problem, okay?”
The story appears to be a hoax spread via e-mail forwards, according to rumor tracker Snopes.com,with no evidence it occurred.
Trump then touched on waterboarding. Trump was skeptical about it but not because it was cruel. Instead, he was worried that it wasn’t harsh enough. Trump called waterboarding “minimal, minimal, minimal torture.” He pledged to do “even worse” to suspected terrorists.
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