28 Jan 2017 10:58 am
Then maybe he needs to stop going around saying that he thinks that torture works.larryc12 » 28 Jan 2017 8:25 am » wrote: Well, that's just another of your incessant lies. Trump has no "plan to bring back torture".
Mattis and Pompeo don't have the final say.DAVID MUIR: Mr. President, you told me during one of the debates that you would bring back waterboarding and a hell of a lot worse.
PRESIDENT TRUMP: I would do -- I wanna keep our country safe. I wanna keep our country safe.
DAVID MUIR: What does that mean?
PRESIDENT TRUMP: When they're shooting -- when they're chopping off the heads of our people and other people, when they're chopping off the heads of people because they happen to be a Christian in the Middle East, when ISIS is doing things that nobody has ever heard of since Medieval times, would I feel strongly about waterboarding?
As far as I'm concerned we have to fight fire with fire. Now, with that being said I'm going with General Mattis. I'm going with my secretary because I think Pompeo's gonna be phenomenal. I'm gonna go with what they say.
But I have spoken as recently as 24 hours ago with people at the highest level of intelligence.
And I asked them the question, "Does it work? Does torture work?" And the answer was, "Yes, absolutely."
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/transcri ... d=45047602
He does.