Backlash Over Trump's Call For Torture Tactics After Turkey Terror Attack
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MIAMI (CBSMiami) – Donald Trump is calling again for torture tactics against ISIS in response to the deadly attack at an Istanbul airport this week.
The presumptive Republican nominee talked about waterboarding and promised to defeat the terror group.
Trump's views on fighting terrorism have emphasized harsh interrogation tactics, massive bombing, temporarily blocking Muslim immigration, and surveillance of some mosques in America.
Hillary Clinton called these tactics out of bounds and so do many top Republicans.
Trump blamed rival Hillary Clinton and the Obama administration for misreading the ISIS threat. Trump called that key evidence to gage Clinton's future effectiveness if she were president.
"You know, ISIS was created during the Hillary Clinton regime," said Trump while on Fox News. "If she gets in, it will be massive and we won't even have a country anymore. We are gonna be afraid to walk outside. "
Trump's insistence that ISIS could whip the world's leading military power irks fellow Republicans - so do his calls for using interrogation tactics as a response to the group's barbarity.
"So we can't do water boarding, but they can do chopping off heads, drowning people in steel cages, they can do whatever they want to do," said Trump while in Ohio.
John McCain, 2008 republican nominee and Vietnam prisoner of war, himself a victim of torture, said waterboarding wastes time and jeopardizes American troops.
"If you inflict enough pain on someone that person will tell you whatever they think that you want to hear in order to make the pain stop," said McCain. "If we torture people then what would we expect that our enemy would do to Americans that were captured."
"I simply can't vote for him," said Mitt Romney, the 2012 GOP nominee.
Romney told CBS's John Dickerson that Trump's approach is unwise and damaging.
"I think it's taking us in a direction which will be very unfortunate long term," said Romney.
Trump returns to the topic of trade Thursday, as his push for higher import taxes and the tearing up of current trade deals has incurred the wrath of typical Republican allies like the Chamber of Commerce, the Business Roundtable, and the Wall Street Journal editorial page. They all claim these moves will kill more jobs than they create.
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