Trump on ISIS: I’d ‘Take the Oil’ and Give the Money to the Veterans and Their Families

TRUMP: “I think we’re going to do very well. And as you know, I’ve been against it for years — the Iraq War. I said you’re going to decimate Iraq, Iran will take over the Middle East and take over Iraq which is exactly what’s happening, and somebody’s going to come and take over the leftover oil. And who did that turn out to be? ISIS. So if you look at 2004, exactly what I said happened. So call it vision. I have to call it vision because I’m trying to get elected. For the first time in my life, I’m trying to get elected. Right, I’m a politician all of a sudden but that was a certain vision. I’ve gotten a lot of credit for it. They made a terrible mistake and then they made a terrible mistake the way they got out. And in my opinion, even they made an even worst mistake not keeping the oil because ISIS took the oil and Iran is going to take the rest of it.”

CUOMO: “People wanted out from it, Mr. Trump. And they didn’t want forces there. They don’t want forces there now. If you wanted to do what you sometimes suggest which is take the oil, that would take troops, that would take danger, that would take blood and treasure.”

TRUMP: “Well, I’d like to take the oil and I’ll give a lot of money to the people that work, to the families of the people who were killed, to the incredible wounded warriors that are all over the place. I love these people. These are the greatest people and they’re living in hell. And I’d give lots of money to them, their families. I mean look at the people. We spent $2 trillion, thousands of people killed, thousands -- tens of thousands of wounded warriors. We have nothing. Right now, Iran is going to take over Iraq and ISIS has already taken big parts of the wealthy section of Iraq.”