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Originally Posted by Solecismic
Trump has reversed his position on the torture of the relatives of terrorists. Because Trump wants to be reasonable, after all.
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It felt to me his "reversal" was much more subtle than has been reported. He's against killing and torturing "innocent bystanders" but if you're associating with a terrorist then you're fair game. He came very close to saying he was OK with arresting and killing the families of terrorist if they just happen to be around them but don't know they are terrorists.
He also wasn't asked the key follow-up: Would Trump support changing the law to allow waterboarding and "worse than waterboarding" so those would not be illegal orders? My guess is he would have said yes.
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Originally Posted by Solecismic
I was disappointed in this reversal until I realized he said "terrorists" rather than "telemarketers."
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So he's still in favor of waterboarding telemarketers, right?