A question for billionaire real estate mogul and Republican frontrunner Trump was: « How would intentionally killing innocent civilians set us apart from ISIS? »
“We have to be much tougher, we have to be much stronger than we have been. We have people that know what is going on. You look at the attack in California the other day. Numerous people, including the mother that knew what was going on. They saw a pipe bomb sitting all over the floor. They saw ammunition all over the place. They knew exactly what was going on,” Trump said.
“When you had the World Trade Center go, people were put into planes that were friends, family, girlfriends they were put on planes primarily to Saudi Arabia, and they knew what was going on. They went home and wanted to watch their boyfriends on television,” he added. “I would be very, very firm with families. Frankly, that will make people think because they may not care much about their lives but they do care, believe it or not, about their families lives.”
“We’re fighting a very politically correct war,” he said to Fox, in answering a question regarding civilian casualties of war. “And the other thing is with the terrorists, you have to take out their families. They, they care about their lives. Don’t kid yourself. But they say they don’t care about their lives. You have to take out their families.”
Trump’s proposal was heavily attacked by his rivals during Tuesday’s debate, however.
He later told Trump that he wouldn’t be able to “insult your way to the presidency.”
“We should be able to penetrate the Internet and find out exactly where ISIS is,” said Trump.
“It would defy every norm that is America, so when you ask yourself, whoever you are, if you think you’re going to support Donald Trump, think: Do you believe in the Constitution?” Paul said. “Are you going to change the Constitution?”
“So they can kill us, but we can’t kill them?” Trump responded, to some boos from the audience. “I just can’t imagine somebody booing,” he says. “These are people who want to kill us, folks.”
“We are not talking about isolation, we’re talking about security,” he said, according to the Associated Press. “We are not talking about religion, we are talking about security.”