What was said:
President Donald Trump, a little more than 100 days after taking the oath of office, questioned whether he had a duty to uphold the Constitution and the Fifth Amendment right to due process as he expressed frustration on judicial pushback to his mass deportation effort.
During a wide-ranging interview with NBC News "Meet the Press" moderator Kristen Welker, Trump was asked if he agreed with Secretary of State Marco Rubio that citizens and noncitizens alike are entitled to due process.
"I don't know," Trump responded. "I'm not a lawyer. I don't know."
Welker noted that the Fifth Amendment, which states in part that "no person" shall be "deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law," says as much.
"I don't know," Trump repeated. "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. We have thousands of people that are some murders and some drug dealers and some of the worst people on earth, some of the worst most dangerous people on earth, and I was elected to get them the hell out of here and the courts are holding me from doing it."
Asked a final time if, as president, he needed to uphold the Constitution, [clear ABC News spin: } Trump again deflected.
"I don't know. I have to respond by saying, again, I have brilliant lawyers that work for me, and they are obviously going to follow what the Supreme Court said," in what's become a new standard answer in interviews when confronted with similar questions about what the law requires him to do.
Legal experts told ABC News that the Fifth Amendment does not make any distinction between citizens and noncitizens. The Supreme Court has held that illegal immigrants are afforded due process rights under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments.
So Trump said he's not a Consttitutional scholar, that he's going to follow the law,.
That since he himself is not an expert on Constituional law, he has many lawyers under him who are Constitutional law scholars, to advise him how to best address the issues raised, and comply with Constitutional law and with Supreme Court rulings.
That he was elected with a mandate to deport the 20 million illegals who had contempt for our lawwhen entering th country, BUT ARE EXPECTED TO HAVE FULL CONSTITUIONAL PROTECTIONS AND TRIALS, DESPITE THAT THESE ILLEGALS
NEVER HAD ANY RESPECT FOR THE CONSTITUTION IN THE YEARS THEY WERE ILLEGALLY HERE COMMITTING CRIMES AND PREYING ON AMERICAN CITIZENS, MANY OF THEM REPEATEDLY ILLEGALLY RE-ENTERING THE COUNTRY EVEN AFTER ALREADY BEING LEGALLY DEPORTED PREVIOUSLY.
In the case example of Kilmar Obrega Garcia, he was
1) pulled over in Tennessee by police, pulled over with 8 illegals over-packed in the car, and police determined he was human trafficking, Garcia was carrying $1500.00 in cash in an envelope, for payment to traffick them, he was driving in a car licensed to another known human trafficker.
2) In another incident Garcia, adorned in gang clothing and gang tattoos, was arrested by Maryland police in the company of multiple other known MS -13 gang members.
3) A judge in court later determined Garcia was an MS-13 gang member.
4) And an appeals judge also ruled Garcia was a gang member.
And yet you (and the oh-so-neutral objective reporters a ABC News, see all this and say Donald Trump is a threat to democracy and didn't give this guy his 5th Amendment rights (which by the way, is U.S. law Garcia never respected during all the years he was in his country illegally.)
Forgive me, but that makes absolutely no sense.
