An oath to uphold what now?
Oy oy oy.
Trump admits not knowing anything.
Donald Trump said “I don’t know” when asked if he needed to uphold the US constitution when it comes to giving immigrants the right of due process as he gave a wide-ranging TV interview broadcast on Sunday.
Let’s be very clear. This isn’t some guy waiting to pay for his cigarettes at a 7/11, this is the fucking chief executive of the whole large bossy globally-busy country. He is supposed to know this stuff. Just for a start, he swore an oath to do exactly that, not once but twice. He swore an oath to uphold the constitution and says he doesn’t know if he needs to uphold the constitution. He says it in public.
In a sane world that would be impeachment right there.
“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 his secretary of state Marco Rubio, who had previously expressed support for the idea that everyone had the right to due process.
When pressed Trump continued: “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. What you said is not what I heard the supreme court said. They have a different interpretation,” the US president added.
Whatever their interpretation may be, we can be sure it’s not “Donald Trump can ignore the Constitution.”
We can imagine the howls of protest that would have been let loose by Republicans had a Democratic President been so uncertain and non-commital to defending the Constitution, but when it’s their guy, he gets a pass.
Well a lot of those guys that would’ve been doing the howling from a place of sincerity are Democrats or Independents now. The other guys were getting mad about tan suits and Dijon mustard (as if anybody hates Dijon mustard).
Not what he heard they said? Obviously he didn’t read the ruling for himself – that’s a given – but wasn’t he listening when somebody read it to him? Or did one of his grovelling courtiers just tell him what he wanted to hear?
In that interview he also denied that he was planning on running for a third term. Although ‘so many people’ want him to run again and despite the fact that The Trump Organisation is selling ‘Trump 2028’ campaign hats, he said
He doesn’t know if the two-term limit is a constitutional matter!
Oh, and the immigration state of emergency isn’t at the borders.
He thinks that judges wanting him to follow the law constitutes a state of emergency.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd9l3399wvno.amp
I don’t think Trump used ‘I don’t know’ in the way I’d use that phrase when asked if string theory is an adequate explanation of space time. I think he used it in the are all his clever lawyers agreed that he has to uphold the Constitution sense, or are some of them arguing that given recent SCOTUS decisions and legal theories, maybe he has some wriggle room there. Frankly either use is alarming, but for different reasons.
YNnB,
More to the point, imagine the howls of protest from Democrats if a Democratic president had said that.
@BKiSA I hate Dijon mustard.
BKiSA, mustard hates me.
Seriously, though, why does your country have a method for removing a mentally incompetent president if nobody is ever brave enough to use it?
We have a method for ending the global trade war and they’re not even brave enough to do that… it’s an easy sell: “Dear Leader is harming his presidency by misguidedly overdoing America First in economics, let’s pull it back so he can make America First at home with lower prices” or some such.