Ledger · 2016 campaign · № 31
Bring back waterboarding and worse
Never delivered“I would bring back waterboarding, and I'd bring back a hell of a lot worse than waterboarding.”
- Promised
- , Republican primary debate, Manchester, New Hampshire
- Re-promised
- 20 times with a fresh deadline
- Topic
- Justice & the courts
- Era
- 2016 campaign
What happened
Waterboarding was not reinstated. Defense Secretary James Mattis and CIA Director Mike Pompeo opposed it, and a 2015 statute limiting interrogations to the Army Field Manual remained in force. PolitiFact rated the promise broken.