Trump's Second Term In Q&A.
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Question: Why should voters trust you, when some of the people who observed you most closely do not?Answer: I let them quit because I have a heart. I don’t want to embarrass anybody. I don’t think I’ll do that again. From now on, I’ll fire.
Q: What you would do if you wins a second term, to hear your vision for the nation?
A: When I first got to Washington, I knew very few people. I had to rely on people. Now I will be in charge. The arranged marriage with the timorous Republican Party stalwarts is over; the old guard is vanquished, and the people who remain are my people. I would enter a second term backed by a slew of policy shops staffed by loyalists who have drawn up detailed plans in service of my agenda, which would concentrate the powers of the state in the hands of a man whose appetite for power appears all but insatiable.
Q: Whether Trump would consider pardoning a pro-Trump mob attacked the center of American democracy?
A: Yes, absolutely. I call them the J-6 patriots and I recast an insurrectionist riot as an act of patriotism.
Q: What about that power be more momentous than at the Department of Justice in your second term?
A: I might fire U.S. Attorneys who refuse my orders to prosecute someone and it would depend on the situation. Also I would seek retribution against my enemies in a second term.
Q: Would that include Fani Willis, the Atlanta-area district attorney who charged you with election interference, or Alvin Bragg, the Manhattan DA in the Stormy Daniels case, who you has previously said should be prosecuted?
A: No, I don’t want to do that and we’re gonna look at a lot of things. What they’ve done is a terrible thing.
Q: What about Biden? You'll appoint a “real special prosecutor” to go after Biden?
A: I wouldn’t want to hurt Biden. I have too much respect for the office. Also, Biden’s fate may be tied to an upcoming Supreme Court ruling on whether Presidents can face criminal prosecution for acts committed in office. If they said that a President doesn’t get immunity, then Biden, I am sure, will be prosecuted for all of his crimes.
Q: Would do you like to sign orders to reinstall many of the same policies from yours first term?
A: I have plans remain in Mexico program, which requires that non-Mexican asylum seekers be sent south of the border until their court dates, and Title 42, which allows border officials to expel migrants without letting them apply for asylum. Also, I plans to cite record border crossings and fentanyl- and child-trafficking as justification for reimposing the emergency measures. I would direct federal funding to resume construction of the border wall, likely by allocating money from the military budget without congressional approval. The capstone of this program, would be a massive deportation operation that would target millions of people. Finally, I have plans to be more aggressive in a second term. People need to be deported and no one should be off the table. I would rely mostly on the National Guard to round up and remove undocumented migrants throughout the country. If they weren’t able to, then I’d use [other parts of] the military.
Q: If that means you would override the Posse Comitatus Act—an 1878 law that prohibits the use of military force on civilians?
A: Well, these aren’t civilians. These are people that aren’t legally in our country. Also, I would also seek help from local police and would deny funding for jurisdictions that decline to adopt my policies. There’s a possibility that some won’t want to participate and they won’t partake in the riches.
Q: Whether you would be comfortable with states prosecuting women for having abortions beyond the point the laws permit?
A: It’s irrelevant whether I’m comfortable or not. It’s totally irrelevant, because the states are going to make those decisions.
Q: The Heritage Foundation has called for enforcement of a 19th century statute that would outlaw the mailing of abortion pills. The Republican Study Committee (RSC), which includes more than 80% of the House GOP conference, included in its 2025 budget proposal the Life at Conception Act, which says the right to life extends to “the moment of fertilization.” Will you do veto that bill if it came to his desk?
A: I don’t have to do anything about vetoes, because we now have it back in the states.
Q: Independent analysts estimate Trump’s first term tariffs on thousands of products, including steel and aluminum, solar panels, and washing machines, may have cost the U.S. $316 billion and more than 300,000 jobs, by one account?
A: I dismisses these experts out of hand and my advisers argue that the average yearly inflation rate in my first term—under 2% — is evidence that my tariffs won’t raise prices.
Q: Under Biden and a bipartisan Congress, the U.S. has sent more than $100 billion to Ukraine to defend itself. Would you extend the same support to Kyiv, because after Orban visited Mar-a-Lago in March, he said Trump “wouldn’t give a penny” to Ukraine?
A: I wouldn’t give unless Europe starts equalizing. If Europe is not going to pay, why should we pay? They’re much more greatly affected. We have an ocean in between us. They don’t.
My notes: E.U. nations have given more than $100 billion in aid to Ukraine as well...
Q: Why you has not called for the release of Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, who has been unjustly held on spurious charges in a Moscow prison for a year?
A: I guess because I have so many other things I’m working on, but Gershkovich should be freed and I doubts it will happen before the election. The reporter should be released and he will be released. I don’t know if he’s going to be released under Biden. I would get him released.
Q: Taiwan’s Foreign Minister recently said aid to Ukraine was critical in deterring Xi from invading the island. Do you understand it?
A: Communist China’s leaders have to understand that things like that can’t come easy, but I declines to say whether US would come to Taiwan’s defense.
Q: What about South Korea?
A: If South Korea doesn’t pay more to support U.S. troops there to deter Kim Jong Un’s increasingly belligerent regime to the north, I suggests the U.S. could withdraw its forces. We have 40,000 troops that are in a precarious position. Which doesn’t make any sense. Why would we defend somebody? And we’re talking about a very wealthy country.
My notes: The number is actually 28,500.
Q: What about Israel?
A: If Iran attack Israel, yes, we would be there. I come around to the now widespread belief in Israel that a Palestinian state existing side by side in peace is increasingly unlikely. There was a time when I thought two-state could work. Now I think two-state is going to be very, very tough.
Q: Whether you would consider withholding U.S. military aid to Israel to push it toward winding down the war?
A: I had a bad experience with Bibi. A January 2020 U.S. operation to assassinate a top Iranian general was supposed to be a joint attack until Netanyahu backed out at the last moment. That was something I never forgot. I blames Netanyahu for failing to prevent the Oct. 7 attack, when Hamas militants infiltrated southern Israel and killed nearly 1,200 people amid acts of brutality including burning entire families alive and raping women and girls. It happened on his watch.
Q: Any political violence around the election?
A: If we don’t win, you know, it depends. It always depends on the fairness of the election.
Q: What you meant when you baselessly claimed on Truth Social that a stolen election “allows for the termination of all rules, regulations and articles, even those found in the Constitution?
A: I didn't said it and I also complained about the “Biden-inspired” court case I faces in New York and suggested that the “fascists” in America’s government were its greatest threat. I think the enemy from within, in many cases, is much more dangerous for our country than the outside enemies of China, Russia, and various others.
Q: Do you wants to be dictator for a day?
A: I would not be a dictator — except for day one. I want to close the border, and I want to drill, drill, drill. It was said in fun, in jest, sarcastically.
Q: Don’t you see why many Americans see such talk of dictatorship as contrary to our most cherished principles?
A: No, quite the opposite. I think a lot of people like it.
Can't say as I like the guy
Date: 2024-05-28 05:49 pm (UTC)As a country, we are failing. I can't say as I know the answer. In the words of Simon and Garfunkel:
Any way you look at it you lose.
Re: Can't say as I like the guy
Date: 2024-05-28 06:47 pm (UTC)