MANCHESTER, N.H. — Donald Trump said during the GOP debate Saturday that he would not only reinstate the enhanced interrogation practice of waterboarding, but introduce something much worse.
“I’ll tell you what, in the Middle East, we have people chopping the heads off Christians. We have people chopping the heads off many other people. We have things that we have never seen before, as a group,” Trump told the ABC News moderators.
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“I mean we studied medieval times. Not since medieval times have people seen what’s going on,” he continued, adding, “I would bring back waterboarding and I’d bring back a hell of a lot worse than waterboarding.”
Trump has previously said waterboarding is “peanuts compared to what [our enemies] do to us.”
“What they’re doing to us, what they did to James Foley when they chopped off his head, that’s a whole lot different level and I would absolutely bring back interrogation and strong interrogation,” the self-funded billionaire said in late November.
The practice of waterboarding, which creates a drowning sensation by placing a cloth over an individual’s face and pouring water over it, among other forms of enhanced interrogation, was banned by the Senate in 2015 through an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act.
