On Tuesday night, presumptive GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump took his campaign rhetoric to a new level: He praised the late Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein.
"Saddam Hussein was a bad guy, right? He was a bad guy, a really bad guy," Trump said to a rally audience collected inside Raleigh Memorial Auditorium in Raleigh, North Carolina. "But you know what he did well? He killed terrorists."
Further, Trump also referred to Iraq as "Harvard for terrorism."
This isn't the first time Trump has praised Hussein. As Daily Beast reporter Gideon Resnick noted on Twitter, back in February, the presumptive GOP nominee said, "But one thing about him: He killed terrorists. ... Saddam Hussein understood and he killed terrorists."
Twitter users were quick to react to Trump's latest controversial remark:
In addition to the terrorists Hussein killed "well," according to ABC News, there is no way to determine the exact number of deaths the dictator directly or indirectly caused. Some estimates, however, range upwards to 500,000 people.
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