Republican frontrunner Donald Trump praised North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un for consolidating power by murdering his rival relatives.
“This guy, he’s like a maniac, OK? And you’ve got to give him credit,” Trump said at a rally in Iowa Saturday.
“He goes in, he takes over, he’s the boss. It’s incredible,” he continued. “He wiped out the uncle, he wiped out this one, that one. This guy doesn’t play games, and we can’t play games with him.”
The foray into foreign policy followed comments in which he said Syrian refugees are “probably ISIS.”
Trump is padding his lead in New Hampshire with 33 percent of the vote, ahead of Marco Rubio, who has 15 percent and Ted Cruz with 12 percent. He had 27 percent in the same poll a month ago.