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# Donald Trump Defends Cincinnati Zoo’s Shooting of Harambe the Gorilla

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## Video: Donald Trump Defends Cincinnati Zoo’s Shooting of Harambe the Gorilla

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_Published 2016-05-31. Donald Trump weighed in on the shooting of Harambe the Gorilla on Tuesday, defending the Cincinnati Zoo’s choice to end the gorilla’s life after a 4-year-old boy got into the animal’s enclosure Saturday._


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## Transcript

I think it's a very tough call. It was amazing because there were moments with the gorilla, the way he held that child, it was almost like a mother holding a baby. Looks so beautiful and calm. And there were moments where it looked pretty dangerous. I don't think they had a choice. I mean, probably, they didn't have a choice. You have a young child is at stake. You know it's too bad that there wasn't another way thought it was so beautiful to watch that powerful almost five hundred pound gorilla the way he dealt with that little boy. It just takes one second, just one second. It's not like it takes place over a well, he's going to do it thirty seconds from now.

It just takes one little flick of his finger. And I will tell you they probably had no choice.

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