Donald Trump called for the use of the enhanced interrogation technique of waterboarding to fight ISIS.
Appearing on ABC’s “This Week” on Sunday with George Stephanopoulos, Trump said that compared to ISIS, “I think waterboarding is peanuts compared to what they do to us, what they’re doing to us.”
“We have to be strong. You know, they don’t use waterboarding over there. They use chopping off people’s heads. They use drowning people. I don’t know if you’ve seen it with the cages, where they put people in cages and they drown them in the ocean and then they lift out the cage. And we’re talking about waterboarding? We have to be tough,” explained Trump.
Stephanopoulos clarified, “So you would bring back waterboarding?”
Trump said, “I would bring it back yes, I would bring it back. I think waterboarding is peanuts compared to what they do to us, what they’re doing to us. What they did to James Foley when they chopped off his head, that’s a whole different level. And I would absolutely bring back interrogation and strong interrogation.”