Crowd Goes Wild When Trump Says We’d Go ‘Much Further than Waterboarding’

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“You know, we had a case where Ted Cruz was asked about waterboarding, and he could answer the question. Because you know, it was politically correct. And in all fairness to him, it was — essentially what do you think of waterboarding? Would you approve it? Would you this, would do that — and he didn’t want to get into it. And I understand that because he wants to be politically correct. 

You know, they’re allowed to chop off the heads of people, including ourselves, but we’re not allowed to waterboard. Do you think they think we are the dumbest, weakest people in the world as they say? So they asked Ted Cruz about waterboarding, and you could see his answer. Two debates ago, and he’s going like ‘Oh well, waterboarding — what do I say, what do I say, it’s so vicious, it’s so violent. You know, it’s sort of the minimal, minimal, minimal, and I don’t know, I’m sure it’s not pleasant, but it’s minimal. So he didn’t want to get into it, he didn’t sort of answer the question. They turned, ‘What do you think, Mr. Trump?’ So I said, ‘Well, throughout the Middle East they’re chopping off heads of Christians, they’re chopping off heads of people, anybody gets in the way. They’re drowning 30, 40 people at a time in heavy steel cages. As far as I’m concerned, waterboarding is absolutely fine, but we should go much further.’ And I’ve got a standing ovation. Standing ovation.” (Cheering)