Story highlights Donald Trump told CNN's Wolf Blitzer "If he would've talked you might not have had the blow up"

The real estate mogul suggested that waterboarding Abdeslam might have prevented the Brussels terror attacks

Washington (CNN) Donald Trump suggested Tuesday that Belgian authorities could have thwarted Tuesday's terrorist attack in Brussels by torturing Salah Abdeslam, the suspected terrorist who was captured days earlier.

Trump argued in an interview with CNN's Wolf Blitzer that Abdeslam, a suspect in last year's terrorist attacks in Paris who fled to Belgium, knew of the plot that ISIS-linked terrorists carried out Tuesday and would have talked "a lot faster with the torture."

"If he would've talked you might not have had the blow up -- all these people dead and all these people wounded because he probably knew about it," Trump said. "We have to be smart. I mean it's hard to believe. We can't waterboard -- listen, nothing's nice about it, but it's your minimal form of torture."

Terrorists killed at least 30 people and wounded about 230 more in Tuesday's attacks at an airport and metro station on Tuesday in the Belgian capital.

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