Trump hails torture and mass killings in his speech in South Carolina

South Carolina campaign on Friday with a rambling speech highlighted by a giddy

Donald Trump closed his South Carolina campaign on Friday with a rambling speech highlighted by a giddy, almost childlike, enthusiasm for torturing and immediately executing the suspected enemies of America in the name of safety. 

According to MSNBC, the standout topic, however, was terrorism and national security. Trump repeated – favorably – an apparent myth about how General John Pershing instantly executed dozens of Muslim prisoners in the Philippines with tainted ammunition during a guerrilla war against the occupying United States.

The moral of the tale, according to Trump: “We better start getting tough and we better start getting vigilant, and we better start using our heads or we’re not gonna have a country, folks.”