Trump flip-flops on Libyan intervention

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Months after saying the U.S. would be “much better off” if Moammar Gadhafi were still the prime minister of Libya, Donald Trump reversed course on Sunday and said he would have approved a “surgical shot” to take him out.

“We would be so much better off if Gadhafi would be in charge right now,” Trump told the moderators during a GOP primary debate in late February.

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