Trump says he doesn’t know if he will uphold the Constitution

[Anonymous]

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/trump-asked-uphold-constitution-says-dont-know-rcna204580

I’m just f’ing done with this insanity.
You cannot complain about Biden’s mental decline and continue supporting this lunatic.

In an interview last month with “Meet the Press,” Secretary of State Marco Rubio said, “Yes, of course,” when asked whether every person in the United States is entitled to due process.

Trump, however, isn’t so sure.

“I don’t know. I’m not, I’m not a lawyer. I don’t know,” Trump replied when asked by “Meet the Press” moderator Kristen Welker whether he agreed with Rubio. His comments came during a wide-ranging interview at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, which aired Sunday.
The Constitution’s Fifth Amendment says “no person” shall be “deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law”; it does not say that person must be a U.S. citizen, and the Supreme Court has long recognized that noncitizens have certain basic rights. Trump has also said that while “we always have to obey the laws,” he would like to see some “homegrown criminals” sent to El Salvador as well, a proposal that was widely panned by legal experts.

When Welker tried to point out what the Fifth Amendment said, Trump suggested that such a process would slow him down too much.

“I don’t know. It seems — it might say that, but if you’re talking about that, then we’d have to have a million or 2 million or 3 million trials,” he said. “We have thousands of people that are — some murderers and some drug dealers and some of the worst people on Earth.”

“I was elected to get them the hell out of here, and the courts are holding me from doing it,” he added.

“But even given those numbers that you’re talking about, don’t you need to uphold the Constitution of the United States as president?” Welker asked.

“I don’t know,” Trump replied. “I have to respond by saying, again, I have brilliant lawyers that work for me, and they are going to obviously follow what the Supreme Court said.”

The Supreme Court has already made it clear to the Trump administration in three different recent decisions that it has to allow basic due process rights for immigrants based on the long-standing understanding of the laws.

That would not require full trials, as Trump suggested. What it would require is the chance to appear before an immigration judge. Such judges are not part of the judicial branch; they are employees of the Justice Department. Administration officials have spoken out against such constraints, leading to allegations that they have defied instructions from lower court judges and even the Supreme Court.
Men facing deportation under the law said they had no chance to contest whether they are even members of the gang, leading to two different Supreme Court decisions that blocked the administration from sending them to prison in El Salvador without due process. One decision came early on the morning of April 19, hours after men had been loaded onto buses and were seen heading toward an airport in Texas.

Another high-profile case has involved Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran man who was living in Maryland with his wife and three children when he was deported to El Salvador. The Trump administration accused him of being a member of the MS-13 gang — which Abrego Garcia’s wife and attorney deny — in its justification for deporting him to his home country, even though an immigration judge’s order from 2019 barred him from being sent there.

The administration has admitted that it was an “administrative error” to deport him, and the Supreme Court ordered that the government “facilitate” his return to the United States so that he can plead his case. The administration appears to have made little effort to do so and has insisted it doesn’t have the power to force El Salvador to do so.

“I don’t know,” Trump replied when asked whether anyone in his administration is in touch with the government of El Salvador to return Abrego Garcia. “You’d have to ask the attorney general that question.”

It is not disputed that Abrego Garcia entered the U.S. illegally or that the government could potentially deport him.

Trump insisted he was not defying the Supreme Court.

You might want to think about getting some new lawyers if this is the advice they’re giving you!!

[Anonymous]

He knows damn well that he will do his best to circumvent or override the Constitution and dare the SC and Congress to try and stop him.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:He knows damn well that he will do his best to circumvent or override the Constitution and dare the SC and Congress to try and stop him.

Someone better do something and quick.

[Anonymous]

Too many stupid people unfortunately

Jan 6 was a coup attempt.

Of course he doesn't support the Constitution.

Neither do most Rs if you press them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:He knows damn well that he will do his best to circumvent or override the Constitution and dare the SC and Congress to try and stop him.

Someone better do something and quick.

It definitely won't.be the MAGA Republicans in congress so if Roberts and Barrett vote with the Three liberals on the SC there is a slim chance of stopping him. Otherwise, it will have to be the people protesting and scaring the poop out of the GOP.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:He knows damn well that he will do his best to circumvent or override the Constitution and dare the SC and Congress to try and stop him.

Someone better do something and quick.

It definitely won't.be the MAGA Republicans in congress so if Roberts and Barrett vote with the Three liberals on the SC there is a slim chance of stopping him. Otherwise, it will have to be the people protesting and scaring the poop out of the GOP.

Congress, especially the Senate, is doing just what they supposed to be doing. They haven't said No to Trump but they haven't said Yes. Including the Republicans. All Congress has to do is wait and Trump will fail. They are doing nothing and he is failing. Slowly and doing as much damage as he can, but he is failing. Without the support of Congress, which he doesn't have, his impact is blunted.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:He knows damn well that he will do his best to circumvent or override the Constitution and dare the SC and Congress to try and stop him.

Someone better do something and quick.

It definitely won't.be the MAGA Republicans in congress so if Roberts and Barrett vote with the Three liberals on the SC there is a slim chance of stopping him. Otherwise, it will have to be the people protesting and scaring the poop out of the GOP.

Congress, especially the Senate, is doing just what they supposed to be doing. They haven't said No to Trump but they haven't said Yes. Including the Republicans. All Congress has to do is wait and Trump will fail. They are doing nothing and he is failing. Slowly and doing as much damage as he can, but he is failing. Without the support of Congress, which he doesn't have, his impact is blunted.

So this is all some master plan?


BS

[Anonymous]

well, although everyone is entitled to due process, the case law is quite clear that there is no one thing that “due process” is, and it can be a sliding scale that takes different factors into account. eg there is no due process jury trial requirement for immigration cases.

The real constitutional issue with Trump is whether he will follow a court order when the court says what due process is in a particular case.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:He knows damn well that he will do his best to circumvent or override the Constitution and dare the SC and Congress to try and stop him.

Someone better do something and quick.

It definitely won't.be the MAGA Republicans in congress so if Roberts and Barrett vote with the Three liberals on the SC there is a slim chance of stopping him. Otherwise, it will have to be the people protesting and scaring the poop out of the GOP.

Congress, especially the Senate, is doing just what they supposed to be doing. They haven't said No to Trump but they haven't said Yes. Including the Republicans. All Congress has to do is wait and Trump will fail. They are doing nothing and he is failing. Slowly and doing as much damage as he can, but he is failing. Without the support of Congress, which he doesn't have, his impact is blunted.

So this is all some master plan?


BS

No master plan at all. Trump doesn't have a master plan, but he has ideas that he likes, such as tariffs. He has mostly been following the Project 2025 master plan and has given Musk and Vought free rein to implement it, which they have done to some success. But he doesn't have any support in Congress, which means that he will not succeed in his ideas or in the Heritage Foundation's ideas.

[Anonymous]

Ah well, then we can really expand red flag laws!

[Anonymous]

To the people who voted for Trump, 3rd party, or didn't vote... love this for you.

[Anonymous]

He should be impeached. At some point people will remember what patriotism truly is, and Trump ain't it. Not even close. He is a felon, a fascist, and a traitor to American values.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:He should be impeached. At some point people will remember what patriotism truly is, and Trump ain't it. Not even close. He is a felon, a fascist, and a traitor to American values.

The MAGA are all in. They excuse everything he does or says that they don't like and rejoice at anything he says or does that they do like.

These are otherwise smart people. It's pathetic.

[Anonymous]

This has Steven Miller written all over. Miller wants Trump to defy SCOTUS, push for unfettered executive power. Trump is a feeble old man with no thoughts.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This has Steven Miller written all over. Miller wants Trump to defy SCOTUS, push for unfettered executive power. Trump is a feeble old man with no thoughts.

+1

I agree it sounds like Miller. He is powerful in the administration, does he have any official position or just an advisor? He's not confirmed by the Senate, I don't think.