{"id":226636,"date":"2016-06-29T17:21:00","date_gmt":"2016-06-29T17:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=226636"},"modified":"2016-06-29T17:21:00","modified_gmt":"2016-06-29T17:21:00","slug":"us-election-i-like-waterboarding-a-lot-donald-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=226636","title":{"rendered":"US election: ‘I like waterboarding a lot’ – Donald Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"

Republican Donald Trump has repeated calls for the return of waterboarding against Islamic State militants, saying: “I like it a lot.”<\/p>\n

His comments at a rally in Ohio came hours after suicide bombers killed 41 people at an airport in Istanbul.<\/p>\n

“You have to fight fire with fire,” said the Republican’s likely nominee, after referring to IS beheadings.<\/p>\n

Waterboarding, described by President Barack Obama as torture, was banned by the US in 2006.<\/p>\n

The Turkish authorities believe the so-called Islamic State was behind the attacks at Ataturk International Airport on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

“We have to fight so viciously and violently because we’re dealing with violent people,” Mr Trump said.<\/p>\n

At one point, he asked the crowd: “What do you think about waterboarding?”<\/p>\n

They cheered as he gave his answer: “I like it a lot. I don’t think it’s tough enough.”<\/p>\n

The New York tycoon lamented that the US is prevented from waterboarding but “they [Islamic State] can do chopping off heads, drowning people in steel cages, they can do whatever they want to do”.<\/p>\n

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Democratic presumptive nominee Hillary Clinton, who will face Mr Trump in November’s election, said in response to the attacks in Istanbul that the US “cannot retreat”.<\/p>\n

“We must deepen our co-operation with our allies and partners in the Middle East and Europe to take on this threat”.<\/p>\n

Mr Trump has faced much criticism – even from within his own party – by calling on the US to close its borders to Muslim arrivals.<\/p>\n

Recently there are signs that he is retreating from that and instead recommending a ban from people arriving from “terror nations” although it’s not clear which countries they are.<\/p>\n

Earlier on Tuesday, he compared the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement to rape and threatened to confront China in a trade war.<\/p>\n

He says that free trade, which has been Republican orthodoxy for many years, hurts American workers.<\/p>\n

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Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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