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Stephen A. Smith presses Trump on whether his personal hatred is influencing his decisions on Iran. Stephen A. Smith: “I watched you on 60 Minutes, particularly when it came to the issue of hating your enemies. Nancy Pelosi’s name was mentioned, James Comey’s name was mentioned. They tried to throw you in jail, Iran tried to kill you. Vengeance is not something that you mind exacting against those you perceive to be your enemies. I don’t think you would deny that.” “How much of a role does that play in the United States still being in the position that it’s in with Iran, knowing how much you hate them because they’ve tried to kill you?” Donald Trump: “I hate my opponents. And it’s not a question of opponents, I hate certain people. I don’t hate all my opponents. I respect a lot of my opponents, but there are some that I think were way across the line, and I have a certain hatred for them.” Stephen A. Smith: “They’ve got a billboard in Tehran right now talking about killing you. That has nothing to do with why you’re still there?” Donald Trump: “They’re an evil enemy. They’ve killed many Americans, they’ve killed many American soldiers. They’re a very evil group of people. I don’t hate the people of Iran, but I think their leadership has been a horrible, horrible thing.” “I certainly don’t love them. They have killed a lot of American soldiers.” Stephen A. Smith: “But like you’ve said, you’ve basically disarmed them. You’ve obliterated them to some degree, at least that’s what you say.” Donald Trump: “No, no, no. It’s not what I say. It’s what happened. They’re a very bad group of people, the leadership. They’re violent. They hate us. They say death to America, constantly.” Stephen A. Smith: “If it wasn’t for the other nations, particularly in the Middle East that don’t want you to do that, would you have already taken them down?” Donald Trump: “Yes, I would. I would have, yeah.” Stephen A. Smith: “And by taking them out, that means what? What exactly would you have done?” Donald Trump: “Going further than I went. We’ve gone very far. We’ve attacked them pretty far. But we’ve, for the most part, left their bridges alone. We took out one big bridge because they behaved very badly. And we’ve let their electric manufacturing capability survive. We haven’t attacked their energy at all. “If I want to take them out, I hit them in one day. Their energy is gone, in one day their bridges are gone, and in one day their manufacturing capability is gone. It would only take me three days, one day each.”