Donald Trump: I Would ‘Absolutely’ Bring Back Waterboarding

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said on Sunday morning that he would lift the ban on the use of waterboarding as an acceptable form of enhanced interrogation.

“They don’t use waterboarding over there — they use chopping off people’s heads, they use drowning people,” Trump told George Stephanopoulos on ABC’s This Week, referring to the brutal tactics employed by ISIS. “…I think waterboarding is peanuts compared to what they do to us.”

On his first full day in office, President Barack Obama issued an executive order banning the use of waterboarding as an interrogation method for terror suspects. The Obama administration, along with the United Nations and most Democrats, believes that waterboarding amounts to torture.

Some Republicans, notably Sens. John McCain (R-AZ) and Lindsey Graham (R-SC), oppose waterboarding and believe it is counterproductive.

Watch the video above, via ABC.

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