November 22, 2015

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said over the weekend that he would reauthorize the use of enhanced interrogation techniques in order to protect Americans from terrorism.

"When the Syrian refugees are going to start pouring into this country, we don't' know if they're ISIS, we don't know if they're a Trojan Horse," Trump told ABC's George Stephanopoulos on Sunday. "I want to see a database and other checks and balances. We want to go with watch lists, we want to go with databases, and we have no choice."

"It could be the great Trojan Horse of all time," he continued. "When I look at the [immigration] line, I see all strong powerful men. And I see very few women, and I see very few children. There's something strange going on. And if you look at what's happening in Europe, a lot of bad things are happening in Europe."

After pointing out that a majority of the Syrian refugees were, in fact, women and children, Stephanopoulos wondered if Trump would bring back waterboarding, which was banned by President Barack Obama.

"We have to be strong," the candidate insisted. "You know, they don't use waterboarding over there, they use chopping off people's heads, they use drowning people."

"I would bring it back, I think waterboarding is peanuts compared to what they do to us," he opined. "I would absolutely bring back interrogation and strong interrogation."

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