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kpete

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Tue Mar 22, 2016, 11:27 AM Mar 2016

Terrorism Expert: ISIS Is "Probably Cutting Videos" of Donald Trump's Response to Belgium Attacks

Donald Trump wasted no time in backing torture (again) after this morning's terrorist attacks in Brussels.

"Waterboarding would be fine" for Salah Abdeslam, one of the alleged participants in the massacre in Paris last November, Trump said on the Today Show. He's previously said he'd like to do "a hell of a lot worse" than waterboarding to terrorism suspects, and on Tuesday repeated his call to change the laws to allow further acts of torture: "If they could expand the laws, I would do a lot more than waterboarding. You have to get the information from these people."

But terrorism expert Malcolm Nance, the head of the Terrorism Asymmetrics Project and a veteran of Navy intelligence, took Trump to task for doing the propaganda work of ISIS.

"Good God, they're probably cutting videos of this right now," Nance said on MSNBC about Trump's comments. "Donald Trump right now is validating the cartoonish view that they tell their operatives...that America is a racist nation, xenophobic, anti-Muslim, and that that's why you must carry out terrorist attacks against them...It's irresponsible and it needs to stop."

VIDEO:
http://m.motherjones.com/mojo/2016/03/watch-terrorism-expert-school-donald-trump-his-calls-torture
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Terrorism Expert: ISIS Is "Probably Cutting Videos" of Donald Trump's Response to Belgium Attacks (Original Post) kpete Mar 2016 OP
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It's true. His rhetoric is just inflaming the already-fragile and brainwashed minds of these underahedgerow Mar 2016 #6

underahedgerow

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6. It's true. His rhetoric is just inflaming the already-fragile and brainwashed minds of these
Wed Mar 23, 2016, 01:50 PM
Mar 2016

fanatics.

Thanks trump.

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