President Donald Trump doubled down on his embrace of torture on Wednesday, saying that it “absolutely works.”
He made the fallacious claim in interview with ABC News, an excerpt of which was released before its airing on Wednesday evening.
Trump said that he asked top intelligence officials whether waterboarding and other forms of torture work, and “the answer was yes, absolutely.”
Ultimately, he said he is “going to go with” the opinions of Defense Secretary James Mattis and CIA Director Mike Pompeo as to whether to reinstate torture.
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