President Trump said in an interview that it was broadcast on Sunday that he did not know whether every person on American soil was entitled to a proper process, despite constitutional guarantees, and complained that compliance with that principle would lead to an unmanageable delay in his mass deportation program.
The revealing exchange, on NBCs’Meet the press‘The interviewer Kristen Welker was asked to ask Mr. Trump if he agreed State Secretary Marco Rubio that citizens and non -citizens in the United States were entitled to a decent process.
“I don’t know,” replied Mr. Trump. “I’m not, I’m not a lawyer. I don’t know.”
Mrs. Welker reminded the president that the fifth amendment says so much.
“I don’t know,” said Mr. Trump again. “It seems that it could say, but if you have about it, we would have to have a million or two million or three million tests.” Left Lefted was how someone could be sure that these people were without paper immigrants, let alone criminals, without hearings.
Mr. Trump once again replied “I don’t know” and referred to his “brilliant lawyers” when Mrs. Welker asked if he as President “should maintain the Constitution of the United States”.
The comments came in the midst of the Many legal challenges to the government’s agenda, especially that of Mr. Trump aggressive deportation campaignand as top officials have started to question the president’s obligation to offer the right process. Mr. Trump attacked judges, called for their accusation and ignored A statement by the Supreme Court The assignment to facilitate his administration the return of a migrant, Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, who was wrongly sent to a prison for terrorists in El Salvador.
Mr. Trump said in the interview that he can clarify the Supreme Court about what it meant with the word ‘facilitating’ when referring to the return of Mr. Abrego Garcia.
Like most conversations with Mr. Trump, the interview about broad territory and covered topics that are just as diverse as recent economic data, his trade war with China, negotiations between Russia and Ukraine, are overmeinzingen about an unconstitutional third tenure and possible Republican successors. The interview was recorded on Friday.
The president, perhaps frustrated that President Xi Jinping from China holds under pressure from the administration 145 percent rates On China returned to the heavy commercial interviews after weeks of signaling that he wanted a deal.
Mr. Trump said he was not worried about one recession Despite a few Wall Street analysts who predicted and suggested that it was a good thing for the United States to have gone ‘cold turkey’ in the trade with China due to the priceless high rates.
“We lost hundreds of billions of dollars with China,” he said. “Now we are not doing business with China. That is why we save hundreds of billions of dollars. Very simple.”
Note that the US economy shrink In the first quarter, Mrs. Welker asked Mr Trump if he took responsibility for the economy and call it the Trump economy instead of blaming former President Joseph R. Biden Jr.
Mr. Trump’s answer has looked at his lifelong relationship with credit and guilt: “I think the good parts are the Trump economy and the bad parts are the Biden economy because he has done it terribly.”
Asked about the war in Ukraine and the efforts of his administration to put an end to an end, the president said he had come close to walking away from the conversations and might still be able to do that.
During his presidential campaign, Mr Trump claimed that he could conclude a peace agreement between Russia and Ukraine within 24 hours of his appointment. About 100 days later he now claims that he was sarcastic. He is frustrated by the grinding process and lack of progress. And President Vladimir V. Putin van Russia has ignored Mr Trump’s public calls to stop bombing Ukrainian cities.
“Well, there will be a time when I will say:” Okay, keep going. Keep being stupid and keep fighting, “said Mr. Trump in the interview.
Mr. Trump was asked about his repeated statements about considering An unconstitutional third term in office. In the interview he went further than he said earlier that he was not going to run again, despite the fact that the online store of the Trump organization Trump is selling hats.
“There are many people who sell the hat of 2028,” said the president, “but this is not something I want to do. I am looking for four great years and it is to be transferred to someone, ideally a large republican, a large republican to continue it.”
Then he mentioned two Republicans who may fit in the account as his successor: Mr Rubio and Vice President JD Vance.