Donald Trump is a war-crimes enthusiast.This is not an exaggeration, a mischaracterization, or a misrepresentation. As a candidate, the president regaled his audiences with vivid tales of brutality, some apocryphal, and vowed to imitate them.On the campaign trail, Trump frequently invoked a false story of General John Pershing crushing a Muslim insurgency in the Phillipines with bullets dipped in pig’s blood, declaring, “There was no more Radical Islamic Terror for 35 years!” He vowed to impose torture techniques “a hell of a lot worse than waterboarding.” Trump declared he would “take out the families” of terrorist suspects, assuring skeptics that …read more
Source:: The Atlantic
