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

[Anonymous]

He knows. He just doesn’t know if they’ll let him get away with it. Again.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

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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.

Miller doesn’t serve the president—he handles him.

I thought Trump was strong? Look up White House “May the 4th be with you” social posts today. Trump with huge 💪 . Beyond parody.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

I fact checked this because I assumed that Miller HAD been confirmed by the Senate. But apparently he hasn’t been. Still, it’s quite likely that he would have been confirmed had he gone through the confirmation process. This MAGA-led Congress rubber stamps pretty much everything Trump wants.

“Stephen Miller was appointed as White House deputy chief of staff for policy and homeland security advisor in President Donald Trump’s administration, roles that do not require Senate confirmation. Therefore, he was not subject to a Senate confirmation process for these positions.”

[Anonymous]

Maybe Trump should read that original copy of the Declaration of Independence he made the National Archives put on the wall of the Oval Office.

Among the complaints enumerated against the King:

For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:
For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences

I'm so tired of these phony patriots who have no clue about or interest in the foundational values of our country.

[Anonymous]

I’ve accepted that we now live under an authoritarian govt. The Constitution is meaningless right now until we can get rid of the MAGA regime. How and when we’ll do that is another question.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Maybe Trump should read that original copy of the Declaration of Independence he made the National Archives put on the wall of the Oval Office.

Among the complaints enumerated against the King:

For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:
For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences

I'm so tired of these phony patriots who have no clue about or interest in the foundational values of our country.

Sounds like migrants will need to declare their independence from the US!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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.

Due Process can mean MANY things. It doesn’t mean a full criminal trial. It does mean being able to be heard, present evidence or rebut any evidence against you as well a being able to obtain legal counsel.

“ While there is no definitive list of the "required procedures" that due process requires, Judge Henry Friendly generated a list that remains highly influential, as to both content and relative priority:

An unbiased tribunal.
Notice of the proposed action and the grounds asserted for it.
Opportunity to present reasons why the proposed action should not be taken.
The right to present evidence, including the right to call witnesses.
The right to know opposing evidence.
The right to cross-examine adverse witnesses.
A decision based exclusively on the evidence presented.
Opportunity to be represented by counsel.
Requirement that the tribunal prepare a record of the evidence presented.
Requirement that the tribunal prepare written findings of fact and reasons for its decision.
This is not a list of procedures which are required to prove due process, but rather a list of the kinds of procedures that might be claimed in a "due process" argument, roughly in order of their perceived importance.”

https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/due_process

[Anonymous]

Civil servants swear an oath to uphold the constitution when they start working. The president swears that oath when he takes office - was Trump crossing his fingers when he swore that oath? Did he just forget?

[Anonymous]

So all of those times the right was spouting against communism, authoritarianism and wrapping themselves in the Constitution were just plain old lyin' and gaslightin'

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Civil servants swear an oath to uphold the constitution when they start working. The president swears that oath when he takes office - was Trump crossing his fingers when he swore that oath? Did he just forget?

The good Papist did NOT put his hand on the Bible when he took that oath . . .

[Anonymous]

and then there are the things what were edited out for the broadcast...

https://meidasnews.com/news/what-trump-said-off-air-nbc-cuts-reveal-key-claims-on-tariffs-bezos-and-recession

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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!!

So I'm going to argue that you can care about Biden's mental decline and also care about Trump's refusal to support the US Constitution. I think Trump has some cognitive issues, but more related to his mental illness versus mental competence. i think it's a mistake to conflate the two. He's not a lunatic. He's a megalomaniac and a narcissist. And a wannabe dictator.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Maybe Trump should read that original copy of the Declaration of Independence he made the National Archives put on the wall of the Oval Office.

Among the complaints enumerated against the King:

For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:
For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences

I'm so tired of these phony patriots who have no clue about or interest in the foundational values of our country.

I think it’s hilarious that he has a copy hanging up and has clearly NEVER read it and has no idea how many of the grievances he’s resurrected

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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.

100% this

[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.

I hope you are right