Donald Trump said Tuesday night that, while Saddam Hussein was “a bad guy,” he did have his good side because “you know what he did well? He killed terrorists,” and Hillary Clinton’s campaign was quick not only to condemn that remark but to highlight that it is part of a pattern with Trump:
"Donald Trump's praise for brutal strongmen seemingly knows no bounds. He has applauded the strength China showed in the Tiananmen Square massacre, offered admiration for Kim Jong Un's murderous consolidation of power in North Korea, and consistently lavished praise on Vladimir Putin," Jake Sullivan, a senior policy adviser to Clinton, said in a statement. "Tonight, Trump yet again lauded Saddam Hussein as a great killer of terrorists, noting with approval that he never bothered to read anyone their rights."
Well, that tells you something about what kind of president Trump would like to be. And it's bloody terrifying.