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Ron DeSantis: “If you were in a supermax versus there [Guantanamo Bay], you…”

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They're being tortured, they're being this. I went in because we had Khalid Shaikh came in when I was down there. You go in. It's a maximum security prison. If you were in a supermax versus there [Guantanamo Bay], you wouldn't know the difference. They were being treated. Yeah, he was in solitary confinement, but you know what? There's people that didn't do as bad of things as he's done in solitary confinement. (32:36–32:41)

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Asserts that Guantanamo Bay's conditions are comparable to a supermax prison.

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