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Trump hails torture, mass killings with ‘pigs blood’ ammo in SC
02/19/16 08:32 PM—Updated 02/20/16 12:31 PM
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Benjy Sarlin
North Charleston, SC – Donald Trump closed
his South Carolina campaign on Friday with a rambling speech
highlighted by a giddy, almost childlike, enthusiasm for torturing and
summarily executing the suspected enemies of America in the name of
safety.
Trump was in free-association mode ahead of Saturday’s primary,
dwelling for an extended time on one topic, like heroin in New Hampshire
or Japan’s monetary policy, and then jumping to another.
“I’m really good at the trade,” the billionaire told a crowd of thousands. “I’m really good at the borders.”
RELATED: Polls say Trump is losing ground in South Carolina
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.
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Donald Trump.
The moral of the tale, according to Trump: “We better start getting
tough and we better start getting vigilant, and we better start using
our heads or we’re not gonna have a country, folks.”
Trump was unimpressed with waterboarding, a banned interrogation
tactic that he has pledged to bring back against suspected terrorists,
and supplement with far worse forms of abuse.
“Is it torture or not? It’s so borderline,” he said. “It’s like minimal, minimal, minimal torture.”
In a previous speech, Trump called his opponent Senator
Ted Cruz, whose father was tortured as a young man in Cuba, a “pu**y”
for not sharing his zeal for the practice.
Trump went on to boast how fears of terrorism had boosted him
politically, including in South Carolina where he leads a number of
polls by double-digit margins.
“When Paris happened, everyone started saying, ‘We want Trump!’” he
said. “The polls came in, 60 percent, 70 percent, 72 percent. This is 72
percent with 17 people running. Now we’re down to 6, we got rid of all
these people. It’s so great. It’s so great.”
RELATED: Trump calls for a boycott of Apple products
He tied the San Bernardino shooting into an argument over gun rights,
saying the body count could have been minimized if the office workers
who were murdered had been armed.
“If there were guns on the other side pointed at the other direction
so the bullets are flying both ways you, wouldn’t have had that happen,”
he said.
Trump’s speech was a hit with the audience, which cheered throughout.
Trump supporter Eleanor Crume, 72, told MSNBC afterwards that she
agreed with Trump’s stance on waterboarding because terrorists should
not be “pampered.”
“We need someone who can lead the country because people are scared
to death,” she said. “It’s only a matter of time before terrorists come
and start chopping Christian heads off in the United States.”
South Carolina Lieutenant Governor Henry McMaster, Trump’s most
prominent endorser in the state, set the tone for the event before Trump
came on.
“How many of you feel real safe right now?”
“Nooooooooo!” the audience droned in response.
“We’re gonna change that,” he replied.
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Peter Ecos10 days ago
"I'm really good at the torture"
Own it, GOPers, he is your front runner.
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richardinflorida10 days ago
This does not warrant ridicule. Please this is sick and the winds of Fascism are indeed blowing.
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acropolis10 days ago
You bet Trump hails torture and guns.
Its torture to listen to Trump.
He makes you want to shoot yourself.
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02/19/16 08:32 PM—Updated 02/20/16 12:31 PM
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create new group 9 GBinFWB9 days ago
All
the proclaimed Christians must have forgotten their Bibles when it
comes to Donald Trump, or they've forgotten the passage from Matthew
24:24
"For false messiahs and false prophets will appear and perform great signs and wonders to deceive, if possible, even the elect."
>
Brains: use 'em or lose 'em9 days ago
Better
off a cliff than into the hell the right-wingers would have us all live
in. That would include the right-wingers, by the way. You lot won't be
exempt.
>
@gamma1419 days ago
Today
Americans protected by the Oceans and hearing/seeing videos of stories
of people getting executed by decapitation seems like fiction. When it
finally starts in the US, it will no longer be fiction. Muslim
extremists are determined to bring it home to the USA. Denial of the
situation...
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@WatchWomens9 days ago
TORTURE IS WONDERFUL...until it turns on YOU.
You'll get what TRUMP really is WAY 2 LATE. If you're a CHRISTIAN that paid ANY attention to your BIBLE
TRUMP WILL BE "SWEET in your mouths BUT will SOUR in your stomachs"..Bible Dan 12.
YOU KNOW THAT GOD is leaving CHRISTIANS behind & they WILL...
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john-8684129 days ago
Torture
is having to jump out of the World Trade Center window at 85 floors
while fire is licking at your back. Water boarding is not torture. Do
these idiot reporters not know that people are actually seeing these
speeches? Giggling? I didn't see any giggling.
>
108 Peter Ecos10 days ago
"I'm really good at the torture"
Own it, GOPers, he is your front runner.
>
acropolis10 days ago
You bet Trump hails torture and guns.
Its torture to listen to Trump.
He makes you want to shoot yourself.
>
hotstuffinpdx10 days ago
The Republican party. Is. Dead.
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Pachyderm Pollution10 days ago
80
years ago before WWII the Republican party was trying to make us a
fascist nation that corporations and government could come together to
be as one. Republicans tried to keep us out of WWII. Why? Because they
were also a fascist thinking party. Here we are and the big lie you say
over and...
>
Jeff Ansani10 days ago
You're rattled.
Must be from seeing posts from real decent human beings that recognize Racism and Hatred when they see it
and you know that's going to be the issue because none, NOT ONE of
the SCUMBAG BIGOTS running for President or Kasich has disavowed the
SCUMBAG, RACIST, PIECE of SH!T portion...
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59 Poolshooter9 days ago
Hey
Mr Ignorent, BUSH handed 12 trillion of that to Obama..."OBUMA" just
screams your ignorance and immaturity...go back to your forth grade
Trumpanzee now, you're a perfect match made in hell since GOD won't let
either one of you in the pearly gates
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LibsPervertUs10 days ago
As
Democrats murder and cleanse their own "unwanted" babies ... similar to
Hitler/Nazis cleansed and murdered their "unwanted", namely, the Jews.
As Democrats and Democrat Blacks who are a large part of the Democrat party ... riot ... loot ... burn their own communities.
As Democrats pervert...
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uslapaho10 days ago
Oh No!!! Donald is so scary!! Better skedaddle to Northern Europe!! Quick!
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LibsPervertUs9 days ago
If
you are a Democrat or Liberal than getting it right and getting it the
first time is not standard for the undisciplined and less intelligent so
repetition is required.
>
James McGill10 days ago
You want a baby? You might want to tone down some of the weird stuff you say.
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46 EducatingTheFarRight10 days ago
The
Pope was right about Trump. Anyone who wants to torture a group of
people and commit mass murder is no more a Christian than Hitler was.
I always wondered how could people support a psychopathic dictator and now I am witnessing it here in the US.
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Springfield Paul9 days ago
gms20677,
I am sorry that your parents wasted their money in trying to educate
you. The sad thing is, people like you get to vote. The good thing is,
you and people like you, are in the minority.
>
gms206779 days ago
Just
remember Hitler was a socialist/liberal. An if anybody scream fascism,
just look at the name of Hilter's political party. Socialist's will do
or say anything to distance themselves from Hitler. But Hitler wanted to
control everything through government, even if by force.
>
@gamma1419 days ago
Billary, Billary, Bill and Hillary - boom, boom, boom ---
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Rebecca-24039169 days ago
The
to disillusion you people...yes it is true we do get to vote..but the
sad thing is when it comes to the wire for the Office of President our
votes does not count at all. In fact, they are elected by those special
interest groups!
Think for a minute.....why would all those Presidential...
>
35 Maggie-357536610 days ago
This
is a leader talking? Horrible. The GOP better unite behind one of
their candidates soon or this is what they have going in NOVEMBER.....
The standout topic, however, was terrorism and national security.
Trump repeated – favorably – an apparent myth about how General John
Pershing...
>
Maggie-357536610 days ago
And he wonders why the Pope says his remarks about things disqualifies him from being a Christian.
>
CGWS10 days ago
Spot on, Maggie.
>
Maggie-35753669 days ago
Meanwhile, Tom Bergeron clearly thought the religious leader got the better of Trump, writing, “Wow! The Donald has been Poped!”
Arsenio Hall agreed, noting, “Imagine how bad the
rest of your day is when it begins with the pope scolding you, in the
midst of a large crowd.”
And Andy Cohen...
>
Rebecca-24039169 days ago
Hey,
you forgot..the Poles, the Gypsies, and other minorities too, not just
the Jews! We only hear about the Jews cause of a Book named Anne Franks
Diary and of course the Jews always whining! Did you know that there
were more Poles killed during that war than Jews? Why don't you people
go...
>
29 w mcalp10 days ago
Trump
hails torture, mass killings with ‘pigs blood’ ammo in SC"---At Trump
further demonstrating and making it perfectly clear in terms of his true
nature at being a tyrant, killer at heart and a terrorist, this
admission of Trump the dump comes as no surprise.
>
w mcalp10 days ago
By
all laws and ethics of the land, Donald Trump has demonstrated himself
at being a disgrace to the legacy of President Lyndon B. Johnson. Yet,
when it comes to President Johnson confronting the deplorable affects of
racism and bigotry in the USofA, his efforts to secure civil rights
was...
>
Rebecca-24039169 days ago
WAKE
UP AMERICA TO WHAT IS TRULY GOING ON IN THIS COUNTRY! IT IS CALLED
CORPORATE GREED! WE ARE NOT A TRUE DEMOCRACY ANYMORE..
why can I say this...simply: when a rich person who commits the same
crime as a poor is let go free with only a small fine..while a poor
person goes to prison for a...
>
Clarke Baldwin10 days ago
LBJ
killed Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X. Why do you think
they all got assassinated in a short time period? He was quoted as
saying give blacks just enough to vote democrat but nothing more.
>
LibsPervertUs9 days ago
LOL
and Democrats will still be Democrats who like Hitler/Nazis support
socialism and the cleansing and murdering of their unwanted.
How embarrassing and Hitlery will either still be investigated by the
FBI or in jail or have to leave the Presidential race for ""Health
Reason"
We ......
>
15 Sergeant210 days ago
Can
you imagine how embarrassing it must be to admit in public that you're a
republican. I mean I realize that the Bundy's are loud and proud to be
republicans, but Trumps supporters must cringe every time Trump ends a
statement with "okay".
>
Ducky39 days ago
Where
do you hide your totally uniformed, uneducated, ideas??? There is no
indictment!! Bengazi is over, the hearings were declared the biggest
waste of time and money ever. TY Gowdy for adding to the national debt.
Emails?? Last week Colin Powell, Condoleezza Rice and Ash Carter were
all...
>
richardinflorida9 days ago
They are just being Republican, denial, no reading, no education and lies. It is what they do.
>
ConradCA10 days ago
The
Dems are running a felon in waiting who would be convicted and sent to
prison for the rest of her life if brought to trial. That defines
embarrassing.
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12 StuporDave10 days ago
Republicans
are immune to ridicule, obviously, as well as logic, evidently. They
have far too much reverence for things undeserving - religion, law &
order, tradition. Why not smile a bit more, watch a little Comedy
Central, tell a joke, laugh. Serious issues do not always require a...
>
Planetalker9 days ago
"Beware
of the great red creature with the seven heads and ten horns spewing
vile and vitriol" This is John of Patmos describing either Satan or the
republican party's 17 presidential candidates.
>
GBinFWB9 days ago
All
the proclaimed Christians must have forgotten their Bibles when it
comes to Donald Trump, or they've forgotten the passage from Matthew
24:24
"For false messiahs and false prophets will appear and perform great signs and wonders to deceive, if possible, even the elect."
>
Steve Hanson10 days ago
Actually they realize what pandering, politically correct pu$$ies liberals are when it comes to national security.
>
LibsPervertUs9 days ago
LOL
... As you ... Democrats as a party platform ... murder and cleanse
your own, "unwanted" babies similar to Hitler/Nazis cleansing ...
murdering his uwnated ... the Jews forgot your Bibles and God's Word.
If you harm one hair on the head of a child it will be worse for you than Sodom and Gomorah.
...
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9 Katie Lund9 days ago
A
lion more like an orange wigged baboon (red butt included). What are
you on? Crack? When has he told the truth about anything? He pulls his
so called "facts" out of his arse and the Trumpsters are on the crazy
train. What is even more pathetic is your supposed to be a woman. He
thinks...
>
Krishna Ghimire9 days ago
We need a leader, our President Trump, who can sustain
All attacks and assaults
From every fronts, yet like a Lion
He walks tall among all rivals and opponents!
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8 dinm769 days ago
The "Tree of Reagan" as finally born fruit.... the stinking, rotten, poison Republican party of today.
Time to chop it down and burn the branches!
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ruthtruth9 days ago
The
saddest part is the people in the audience will believe this BS. Donald
seems to have a knack of tapping into the darker side and the stupid
seem to love going there and staying there.
>
Richard42259 days ago
If
you want to see what Trump means by torture just go on YouTube and put
the word torture in the search box and you will see exactly what he is
talking about. The primary use for torture and what Trump means when he
talks about torture and summary executions is instilling fear and...
>
LibsPervertUs9 days ago
LOL HMMMMM Poison?
Yes we have to deal with Mr. and Mrs. Terrorist ... they are already here and murdering us ... duh.
The tree of Satan has taken root in the Democrat Party ... As you ...
the perverted Democrat ... Socialist party ... poison the minds of
American society and American children
...
>
8 Here's the Thing9 days ago
And he's speaking to evangelical Christians....
know why Donald Trump says such STUPID things?
If he didn't, his supporters wouldn't be able to understand him.....
>
Here's the Thing9 days ago
just another Donald Trump Stupid comment that his supporters can
understand... no truth but something they can understand.... Donald
Trump supporters think with their sphincters...
>
Here's the Thing9 days ago
what is the republican party coming to? simply read some of the comments of Republican sympathizers.....
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LibsPervertUs9 days ago
LOL
You know why Hitlery and Sanders promise free ... because the Democrats
love free and are too illiterate, too lazy, too stupid and unskilled to
find a job. And they know that is the majority of their voting base.
LOL not able to understand ... LOL you ... the Democrats are the Party of...
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6 Jeffrey Anderson9 days ago
When
faced with the possibility of going to war, like many other young men
in our country of his generation, Trump ran as fast in the opposite
direction as his "bad foot" and father's money and connections, could
take him, knowing full well that another young man would have to take
his place...
>
Brains: use 'em or lose 'em9 days ago
Good thing we only have to ignore them once!
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5 Harley David9 days ago
He
is a mediocre thinker with a hate message he sells to people that are
frustrated and lack the will or capability to think beyond the latest
rhetorical slur! He is that easy way out candidate, with no depth.
>
Fred Mertz-111923649 days ago
Trump
says things that are off the cuff and not scripted. He speaks the truth
and what's on his mind, real people like and the liberal media hate.
That's why he gets free media coverage and dose not have to spend money on his campaign.
>
Crash Kennedy8 days ago
Trump
speaks the words a lot of people are thinking but can't say in this
ridiculous PC world! I am fed up with the rank and file career
politician! I am no longer interested in appeasing the Muslim world,
not offending them. I want my country back, the pride and the strength
we once had. I...
>
4 ron silva9 days ago
aq
10 mbillion dollar wall that we pay for,not the mexico.ban
muslims,torture,mass killings,how stupid do you think the rest of the
world thinks about you.do know the u texax has just stated you can carry
pistols to school....idiots all
>
ron silva9 days ago
let
me get this straight in my head..what your telling the world that
,banning muslims,building a 10 dollar stupid wall,yorture and mass
killings is our platfomr.don,the world is changing,but not by your
standards
>
ron silva8 days ago
one
quesion for the donald.when your out pounding your chest about all the
guns,do you or your companies allow guns in your casinos.if no
why....idiot
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3 Harley David9 days ago
We've got more risk getting in the car to go shopping. Let's stop shopping!
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@gamma1418 days ago
We have 9/11 and then various incidents of mass shooting already. I guess it will take a little more eh ?
>
@gamma1419 days ago
Today
Americans protected by the Oceans and hearing/seeing videos of stories
of people getting executed by decapitation seems like fiction. When it
finally starts in the US, it will no longer be fiction. Muslim
extremists are determined to bring it home to the USA. Denial of the
situation...
>
3 L. Gulliver 2nd9 days ago
We're talking about TORTURE,
and the Yahoos cheered for more!!! The same type screamed, red
faced, demanding that children be sent back into the hands of killers
and human traffickers, and the door to safety be slammed in their
faces.
These are morally depraved PIGS
>
LibsPervertUs9 days ago
LOL Actions speak louder than words honey!
You are so worried about human life and value it so as you ... the
Democrats murder and cleanse your own, "unwanted" babies and say that is
good ... normal ... legal ... LOL duh just like Hitler/Nazis murdered
and cleansed their own unwanted ... the Jews.
>
2 ian donaldson9 days ago
World-class
rabble-rouser, and all-round moral degenerate! Narcissistic egomaniac,
whose psychopathy would not be dismissed as mere eccentricity, but for
his billions! Real Presidential material! If you really want WW
111....impresses the yokels and sh*t-kickers though!
>
LibsPervertUs9 days ago
So let me get this straight OBUMA has bombed more countries than Bush and you are worried about Trump? DUH
Nice try as OBUMA just financed gave $150 Billion to terrorists in
IRAN who scream "death to America" so they can murder us in our own
country.
>
2 Pen Cyn9 days ago
I sure hope tRUMP reaps what he has sown :(
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hopepad089 days ago
What a complete idiot and not to mention jackazz.
>
1 Maggie-35753669 days ago
Meanwhile, Tom Bergeron clearly thought the religious leader got the better of Trump, writing, “Wow! The Donald has been Poped!”
Arsenio Hall agreed, noting, “Imagine how bad the
rest of your day is when it begins with the pope scolding you, in the
midst of a large crowd.”
And Andy Cohen...
>
644 richardinflorida10 days ago
This does not warrant ridicule. Please this is sick and the winds of Fascism are indeed blowing.
>
@fabri374610 days ago
Trumps
wants to look tough and he believes that not respecting human rights is
the way to govern. Wrong man to occupy the WH. Keep selling real state
Trump.
>
Mutombu10 days ago
"We
need to torture & kill foreign innocents the same way that police
kill unarmed Negroes in America!" And all the minions screamed TRUMP!
Republicans...if they weren't so pathetic, I would be LMAO!
>
Rob Moitoza10 days ago
All the things that make America great... guns, torture, mass killings. Pardon me while I throw up!
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gmf-55127410 days ago
Trump embodies the modern Republican party through and through. The GOP richly deserves him.
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