Trump and Torture: A return to “black site” prisons and waterboarding?

President Donald Trump will hold his first news conference as commander in chief Friday, joining British counterpart Theresa May for a Q&A with the press at the White House. Muir tried four or five times to get a straight answer about Trump’s idiotic claim that 3-5 million noncitizens voted, and Trump just flatly wouldn’t engage. So it turns out we’re getting to the martial law phase of his presidency sooner than later. He brings too much expertise to such interrogations.

For many of those watching, Trump’s falsehoods weren’t really a surprise. “You have people that are registered who are dead, who are illegals, who are in two states”.

Critics have noted seizing Iraq’s oil supply in this way would “break all global law”, but Mr Trump dismissed these concerns: “I don’t call them critics”. Muir interrupted to remind him that he is now president of the United States, and to say something like that undermines the fundamentals of the American democratic process. Trump claimed the discussions about alleged voter fraud were “supposed to be a confidential meeting”. John McCain, a former prisoner of war who vowed to fight back against Trump on the issue.

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Yet, the Trump campaign used that excuse over and over, and now Mr. Trump has carried it into the White House. “Then he’s groveling again. We agree.’They’re very smart people”, Trump said after Muir asked about plans to investigate allegations of voter fraud with no evidence.

One of the more peculiar moments during the interview came when Muir questioned President Trump about his recent tweet decrying gun violence in Chicago and threatening federal intervention in the Midwestern city. “I heard stories also”, he continued. “Ultimately, it will come out of what’s happening with Mexico. and we will be in a form reimbursed by Mexico, which I’ve always said”, Trump said in the interview. You and other networks covered it very inaccurately. Where you have great people that are here that have done a good job they should be far less anxious. I don’t believe I got one.

On Tuesday, the National Association of Secretaries of State released a new statement disputing Trump’s claims that millions illegally cast votes during last year’s election. Because they say it does work. She said media coverage of crowd sizes was “a symbol for the unfair and incomplete treatment” she claimed Trump receives. “Okay, these are people that voted for Hillary Clinton“.

The President then signed an action on Wednesday that orders the “immediate construction of a physical wall on the southern border”, – Trump’s long-promised pledge to build a wall between the USA and Mexican border.

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Muir pressed him on this, insisting that eliminating millions of votes-all of which, Trump said, were votes against him-strikes at the foundation of American democracy.

On the question of reinstating waterboarding, Trump said he “absolutely” thinks torture works, but he’s going to go with whatever Defense Secretary James Mattis and CIA Director Mike Pompeo think.

DAVID MUIR: So, you’d be okay with it as president? “I think he has to say that. Waterboarding is – I’m sure it’s not pleasant, but waterboarding was just short of torture”, he said. “Perhaps a complicated form”.

Trump said, “That wall will cost us nothing”.