DONALD CHUMP NEEDS A LOT OF HISTORY LESSONS OR WE ARE GONNA BE IN BIG TROUBLE

The Chump quoted a debunked story about General Pershing yesterday, bigging up his Mr Tough Guy, anti-terror credentials after recently declaring that he would bring back waterboarding and more, when torture just forces the tortured to confessing to anything just to stop the torture. Anyway, they can read your mind, so there is no need for torture.

Trump claimed that Pershing summarily executed “50 terrorists”. In the real estate mogul’s telling, “they were having terrorism problems just like we do. And he caught 50 terrorists who did tremendous damage and killed many people. And he took the 50 terrorists, and he took 50 men, and he dipped 50 bullets in pig’s blood.”

Trump continued that Pershing then “had his men load his rifles and he lined up the 50 people, and they shot 49 of those people. And the 50th person he said: you go back to your people and you tell them what happened.”

The story seems to stem from Pershing’s stint commanding an American garrison in the Philippines where he helped put down a rebellion in the Muslim region of Mindanao from 1909-1913.

Despite Trump’s pledge that “this is something you can read in the history books,” the story has been debunked by the myth-busting website Snopes.

...Pershing’s tenure administrating Mindanao was also marked by his comparative tolerance of Islam and his appointment of Muslims to serve under him as deputy district governors.

[source : Trump recounts Pershing urban legend, seemingly endorsing mass executions, The Guardian, http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/feb/19/trump-appears-to-endorse-executing-terrorists-citing-questionable-history, 20th February 2016]