This Donald thing is starting to blow up.

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9. Don't forget the praise levied at Trump by Saddam Hussein's daughter.

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Here's Saddam's daughter, Raghad...

Saddam Hussein's daughter praised President-elect Donald Trump Thursday as a leader with a "high level of political sensibility."

"This man has just arrived to the leadership ... But from what is apparent, this man has a high level of political sensibility, that is vastly different than the one who preceded him," Raghad Saddam Hussein, the daughter of the late Iraqi dictator, told CNN.

"He exposed the mistakes of the others, specifically in terms of Iraq, which means he is very aware of the mistakes made in Iraq and what happened to my father," she said, apparently returning compliments Trump has offered her late father in recent months.

Here's Trump...

Throughout his campaign, Trump claimed he opposed the Iraq War and praised the former dictator, who was executed in 2006, for "killing terrorists."

"Saddam Hussein was a bad guy, right? ... But you know what he did well? He killed terrorists. He did that so good," he said in July.

During a February 2016 GO debate, he also claimed the world would be a safer place if Hussein, and fallen Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi were still in power.

"We would be so much better off if Gaddafi were in charge right now," Trump said.

"If these politicians went to the beach and didn't do a thing and we had Saddam Hussein and if we had Qaddafi in charge instead of having terrorism all over the place — at least they killed terrorists, all right?" he said. "And I'm not saying they were good, because they were bad, they were really bad. But we don't know what we're getting," he said.

Trump has also frequently blasted U.S. intelligence agencies for using the claim that Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction as the reason to invade the country.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/saddam-hussein-daughter-praises-trump-political-sensibility-article-1.2920095


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