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IronLionZion

(45,447 posts)
Mon Jan 30, 2017, 10:32 AM Jan 2017

Trump Claims Waterboarding Doesnt Come Close To The Excruciating Torment He Experiences

Trump Claims Waterboarding Doesn’t Come Close To The Excruciating Torment He Experiences At Every Moment
http://www.theonion.com/article/trump-claims-waterboarding-doesnt-come-close-excru-55158

WASHINGTON—Dismissing concerns that the controversial interrogation method constituted torture, President Donald Trump told reporters Thursday that waterboarding does not even come close to the excruciating torment he himself experiences at every waking moment. “Prisoners who are forced to endure a few hours of simulated drowning hardly experience the unrelenting horror that tears at my psyche night and day,” said Trump, adding that being strapped to a chair in a filthy concrete cell and repeatedly suffocated was a “stroll in the park” compared to the cruel and inhuman anguish his mind is subjected to literally every single second. “What is having gallons of water forced into your lungs compared to the nightmare that has never once released its grip on me? Waterboarding only brings a prisoner to the brink of death. I die a thousand times a day.” Trump went on to say that unlike the victims of the brutal interrogation technique, he was relentlessly tormented by the miserable fact that he deserved everything that was happening to him.



It's not political, it's the Onion. Satire

And I didn't want to post a pic of that orange troll so here are some kittens

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Trump Claims Waterboarding Doesnt Come Close To The Excruciating Torment He Experiences (Original Post) IronLionZion Jan 2017 OP
Thing is, this is all very believable. pangaia Jan 2017 #1
Did this utterance originate when his NJ casinos were going gunny bag? Zambero Jan 2017 #2
KnR tazkcmo Jan 2017 #3
Kellyanne says they all have gaping wounds lunatica Jan 2017 #4

lunatica

(53,410 posts)
4. Kellyanne says they all have gaping wounds
Mon Jan 30, 2017, 04:49 PM
Jan 2017

because of how badly the media treats them.

I'm hoping she's telling the truth

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