Defends CIA nominee Gina Haspel despite torture record

Trump vigorously defended his CIA director nominee Gina Haspel against concerns over her role in the agency's post-9/11 torture program. He tweeted that she was "under fire" because she was "too tough on Terrorists," dismissing moral and legal objections to waterboarding and other enhanced interrogation techniques she had overseen.

"Gina Haspel, my highly respected nominee to be Director of the CIA, is coming under fire because she was too tough on Terrorists... Win Gina!" — Twitter, May 7, 2018