Trump Amps Up His Call For Torture: 'We're Going To Have To Do Things That Are Unthinkable'
Presumptive Republican presidential nominee and ardent waterboarding supporter Donald Trump wants America to be much tougher on suspected terrorists. So tough, in fact, that we must to do "the unthinkable" when it comes to prisoner interrogation, he said Thursday.
Trump, during an interview with New Hampshire's NH1, was asked about his calls to reinstate waterboarding following Tuesday's attack on Istanbul's Ataturk Airport that killed at least 44 people. Trump has enthusiastically endorsed tactics now widely regarded as torture, and has discounted recent criticism from Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), who said the interrogation technique "was not the American way."
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