Washington: Donald Trump, presumptive presidential nominee of Republican Party, has once again created a new controversy by praising the former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein for his ‘ruthlessness’.
Interestingly, Trump admired Saddam Hussein for killing terrorists and said he did that “so good”.
"Saddam Hussein was a bad guy, right? ... But you know what he did well? He killed terrorists. He did that so good," Trump said at a rally in North Carolina on Tuesday.
"They didn’t read ’em the rights, they didn’t talk. They were a terrorist, it was over."
Trump has previously said the world would be "100 percent better" if dictators like Hussein and Libya’s Muammar Qaddafi were still in power.
Prior to the US invasion, Iraq was listed by the State Department as a state sponsor of terrorism.
Democrat Hillary Clinton’s senior policy adviser Jake Sullivan responded in a statement, "Donald Trump’s praise for brutal strongmen seemingly knows no bounds."
Sullivan said such comments "demonstrate how dangerous he would be as Commander-in-Chief and how unworthy he is of the office he seeks".
(With AP inputs)
