Trump going from “25 years” to “35 years” in repeating the story is a sign that, as with a lot of what he says in general, he was pushing disinformation. There was no more Radical Islamic Terror for 35 years!” Trump wrote on Twitter, “Study what General Pershing of the United States did to terrorists when caught. In August 2017 - after being elected president despite losing the popular vote - Trump again held up Pershing as an example in response to a terror attack in Spain. Okay? Twenty-five years, there wasn’t a problem. And for 25 years, there wasn’t a problem. And the 50th person, he said: You go back to your people, and you tell them what happened.

And he had his men load his rifles, and he lined up the 50 people, and they shot 49 of those people. And he took the 50 terrorists, and he took 50 men and he dipped 50 bullets in pigs’ blood - you heard that, right? He took 50 bullets, and he dipped them in pigs’ blood.

And he caught 50 terrorists who did tremendous damage and killed many people. They were having terrorism problems, just like we do. In the speech, Trump and his supporters endorsed the alleged execution methods Pershing used after the U.S. Pershing at a campaign rally in South Carolina while painting the use of waterboarding as “minimal torture.” In both his presidential campaign and his one term in office, Donald Trump leaned on a debunked tale of anti-Muslim brutality to further endear himself to right-wing Americans.Īs several outlets reported in February 2016, Trump invoked the story of U.S.

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