Trump adviser: 'You couldn’t get the truth out of Hillary Clinton if you waterboarded her'

Even waterboarding Hillary Clinton would not get her to tell the truth about anything, a senior adviser to Donald Trump's campaign said Friday.

During an interview with CNN's Kate Bolduan, Barry Bennett discussed Trump's implied threat to prosecute Clinton over her use of a private email server at the State Department, should he be elected president.


"It's a real problem, that's for sure," Bennett said when asked if that was a threat from Trump at a rally Thursday night. "I mean, if this attorney general tries to block it, then, you know, special counsel should be appointed. I mean, it's crazy. I mean, she has continued to lie about it, right? She told us the lawyers signed off on it, the inspector general said that's not true. She said she would cooperate with all of the investigations, she stonewalled the [State Department Office of the Inspector General] and now everybody taking the Fifth."

As Bolduan tried to ask another question, Bennett remarked, "You couldn't get the truth from Hillary Clinton if you waterboarded her."

"What?" Bolduan asked.

Bennett replied, "You couldn't get the truth out of her with a waterboard.”

Trump himself has said he would "bring back waterboarding and a hell of a lot worse" if elected president as a means to acquire intelligence from terror suspects.