Donald Trump Tells ‘Pig's Blood' Bullets Tale at SC Rally

Donald Trump closed his South Carolina campaign on Friday with a rambling speech highlighted by an enthusiasm for torturing and summarily executing the suspected enemies of America in the name of safety, NBC News reported.

Speaking about terrorism and national security, Trump repeated an apparent legend about how General John Pershing supposedly ordered the execution of dozens of Muslim prisoners in the Philippines during a guerrilla war against United States forces in the early 1900s.

The story appears to be a hoax spread via e-mail forwards, according to rumor tracker Snopes.com, with no evidence it occurred.

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."

Trump downplayed waterboarding, a banned interrogation tactic that he has pledged to bring back for use against suspected terrorists.

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