Dave Ross uncovers the source of Donald Trump’s foreign policy expertise
Mar 7, 2016, 5:17 AM | Updated: 9:51 am
Is Donald Trump getting his foreign policy information from the news, or a hit television series? (AP)
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Donald Trump has changed his mind on several issues lately, and now, he’s changed his mind on waterboarding.
He had been saying that as president he would order the military to waterboard terrorists, even if it’s illegal, and they would obey.
“If I say do it, they’re going to do it,” he explained. “That’s what leadership is all about.”
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But a number of members of the military said no, actually, they would not obey an illegal order, even from president Donald Trump.
So he’s changed. On “Face The Nation” he told CBS’s John Dickerson that instead of just issuing an order, he would change the law first. That means changing the Geneva Convention.
“We are playing by rules, but they have no rules,” Trump said. “It’s very hard to win … You have to play the game the way they’re playing the game.”
He’s saying yes, we have to be more savage. So he would change the laws of war so that what is now considered savage would be legal, and therefore no longer savage. And so we could do it and still consider ourselves the good guys.
Trump has said he gets his foreign policy expertise from the news shows. But in this case, I think it comes from a different show. I saw this very same plot on “24,” the Fox series about counter-terrorism agent Jack Bauer.
Except, I thought it was fiction.
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