Donald Trump on torture: 'We have to beat the savages'
- 8 years ago
Donald Trump is casting aside any doubt about his position on torture: He's in favor of it because "we have to beat the savages."
Trump vowed on Friday that he would never instruct the military to break the law - appearing to flip on his previous promise to bring back waterboarding and more severe forms of torture.
And pressed on CBS's "Face the Nation" about his position, Trump vowed to "strengthen the laws so that we can better compete" with ISIS ' brutal tactics - rejecting out of hand the argument that allowing torture would be stooping to ISIS' savagery.
"We have to play the game the way they're playing the game.
You're not going to win if we're soft and they're, they have no rules," Trump said in an interview taped Saturday that aired Sunday morning.
Trump also rejected the argument that American hostages could be treated worse by America's enemies if the U.S. engaged in torture, insisting that "they're doing that any way."
Trump vowed on Friday that he would never instruct the military to break the law - appearing to flip on his previous promise to bring back waterboarding and more severe forms of torture.
And pressed on CBS's "Face the Nation" about his position, Trump vowed to "strengthen the laws so that we can better compete" with ISIS ' brutal tactics - rejecting out of hand the argument that allowing torture would be stooping to ISIS' savagery.
"We have to play the game the way they're playing the game.
You're not going to win if we're soft and they're, they have no rules," Trump said in an interview taped Saturday that aired Sunday morning.
Trump also rejected the argument that American hostages could be treated worse by America's enemies if the U.S. engaged in torture, insisting that "they're doing that any way."