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Trump doubles down on aggressive policies in his first White House TV interview

In his first sit-down television interview at the White House, with ABC News, Trump defended his most controversial policy proposals.
Trump discussed denying visas to persons from seven Muslim-majority countries. “We are excluding certain countries, but for other countries we are having extreme vetting.”
Trump reiterated his belief the U.S. should have plundered Iraq’s oil reserves in 2003, raising fears he still thinks Iraq is ripe for pillaging.
“We should’ve taken the oil,” Trump said “And if we took the oil you wouldn’t have ISIS. And we would have had wealth.”
Taking Iraq’s oil would be a grave violation of international law, specifically the Hague Convention of 1907 and 1949 Geneva Convention, which prohibits signatories from pillaging territories under private or military control for material gain.
The president also defended a baseless lie that millions of undocumented immigrants voted for his opponent Hillary Clinton in the general election. Read more

He also said that intelligence officials have assured him torture is “absolutely” an effective way of extracting information from captives.
Torture does not, in fact, “absolutely” work. An exhaustive 2014 Senate report on CIA detention programs launched during Bush’s term found no evidence torture was a reliable or effective intelligence tool. Read more