Trump Questioned Why CIA Avoided Killing Terrorists Family: Report
By
Margaret Hartmann
@MargHartmann
April 6, 2018
1:25 am
When asked about his plan for winning the war on terrorism during an interview with Fox and Friends in December 2015, Donald Trump suggested that U.S. forces needed to start targeting terrorists’ family members.
“We’re fighting a very politically correct war,” Trump said. “And the other thing with the terrorists — you have to take out their families. When you get these terrorists, you have to take out their families! They care about their lives, don’t kid yourselves. They say they don’t care about their lives. But you have to take out their families.”
As with so many remarks Trump made during the campaign, it wasn’t clear if this reflected some deeply held belief, or was just something he said because he thought it sounded cool. Trump doubled down at a debate days later, saying terrorists “may not care much about their lives, but they do care, believe it or not, about their families’ lives” – even as his opponents noted that would violate the Geneva Convention. But months later, Trump tried to walk back his remarks, telling CNN that he wouldn’t necessarily want to kill terrorists’ family members, though we need “to go after them.”
It still wasn’t clear what exactly that meant, but a new report in the Washington Post suggests that at the very least, Trump doesn’t care about minimizing civilian casualties. Here’s an anecdote from Trump’s visit to the CIA’s drone operations floor during his first full day in office:
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Kill everyone. The more people we kill, the more it deters the terrorists. 
Little Donnie Trump had better hope this "plan" never comes home to roost. All he's doing is creating MORE terrorists. But Little Donnie knows his constituency loves the blood, gore and body parts that come with "shotgun style" warfare. Plus, he loves killing people as well. Nothing sets the tone for a great Trump day than a good body count. 
