Trump After Brussels Airport Bombing: ‘Torture Works’

For Donald Trump, the ISIS bombing of the Brussels airport only confirms his longstanding view that torture is needed to get terrorists to talk.

Republican US presidential hopeful Donald Trump addresses the 2016 American Israel Public Affairs Committee policy conference at the Verizon Center March 21, 2016 in Washington, DC. BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP/Getty Images

For Donald Trump, the ISIS bombing of the Brussels airport only confirms his longstanding view that torture is needed to get terrorists to talk. 

Asked on CNN about the Brussels attack, Trump said that Belgian authorities might have prevented the attack if they had tortured the captured ISIS terrorist Salah Abdeslam, who had participated in the Paris attacks that killed 130. 

You talk to General Patton from years ago, you talk to General Douglas MacArther ... I guarantee they would be laughing.

— Donald Trump