(UPDATED — SEE BELOW)
Instead of hitting Hillary today for lying to the American people about her email scandal, el Trumpo decided to remind everyone that he just loves despotic genocidal maniacs who ignore the rule of law to do whatever they want.
Watch below:
Trump: Saddam Hussein "was a bad guy", but killed terrorists "well". Also refers to Iraq as "Harvard for terrorism". pic.twitter.com/H3psuGKGrN
— Mic (@mic) July 6, 2016
How is this not a huge flag for people who today, are angry that Hillary and the FBI are overturning the rule of law?! Trump is literally signaling here that he believes it’s a virtue for an executive to ignore the rule of law and kill people whom he designates as terrorists!! Meanwhile, Sarah Palin just called all Republicans who don’t support Trump “traitors.” I dunno. Seems kinda problematic to me.
Keep in mind, this is not the first time he’s praised Saddam Hussein, who had rape-rooms so that he could casually rape women whenever he wanted, he said before that he admired how Saddam went after “terrorists.” You know how he did it? Well, he designated anyone who disagreed with him as terrorists and then tortured them to death. He literally had doctors on hand just for the sake of cutting off limbs in torturous experiments on his political enemies.
AND don’t forget – much of ISIS was formed BY Saddam’s generals!!! So this moron is praising a guy who’s military generals are now ISIS, because he thinks that he would have gone after ISIS!! What?!
But his idiot followers are now on Twitter defending Saddam, because all of their historical knowledge comes from misspelled memes online.
Oh, and by the way, this isn’t the first time he’s done this – he defended Putin’s murdering of journalists, more than once, and thought Chinese Communists were awesome when they used violence to shut down protesters in Tiananmen Square.
None of this is alarming to anyone but me? Really?
UPDATE (TRS): Actually I don’t find this alarming at all. I will disagree with Sooper here and suggest to you that Trump is more right than wrong on this one.
Yes, Trump has made stupid comments regarding dictators and commie governments in the past – (thinking China and N. Korea off the top of my head). But that doesn’t mean he is doing the same thing here.
As bad as Saddam or Mubarak or Qaddafi were as dictators, the truth is the Middle East is best run when dictators are in charge and when they keep terrorists at bay. Mubarak for example always fought to keep the Muslim Brotherhood in check, and yes that meant killing a lot of them. They are terrorists, they deserve to die.
Same with Saddam and Qaddafi. It’s an unfortunate truth that without dictators keeping terrorists in check, the Middle East turns into a terrorist hell hole – see Libya and Iraq. And I believe that was Trump’s point.
Yes, he’s a horrible candidate. But that doesn’t make him wrong here.