US President Donald Trump said in an interview with NBC News that he is not sure whether all people in the United States – regardless of citizenship – are entitled to a proper court trial guaranteed by the country’s constitution. He said in Friday’s interview with Kristen Welker, who was to be broadcast on Sunday. He also stated that he did not plan to re -run for the post of president, TASR writes, according to reports of Reuters, AFP and NBC News, according to reports.
Welker asked Trump about the statements of the US Minister of Foreign Affairs Marc Rubia from last month. Rubio said that all the US people were entitled to a proper trial. When asked whether Trump agrees with this statement, and whether American citizens and non-Breeders deserve such a process, the White House chief did not clearly answered.
“I don’t know. I’m not … a lawyer. I don’t know,” Trump said, stating that such a measure would mean that “we would have to have a million or two or three million trials”. “We have thousands of people that are – some murderers, some drug dealers and some of the worst people in the world … I was elected to get them out of here and the courts are defending me,” Trump replied.
The government is pushing the courts
The question of entitlement to judicial processes is related to the measures of Trump’s administration regarding the deportations of illegal migrants in the country. The US government is pushing the courts to allow immediate expulsion of immigrants accused of membership in the Venezuelan gang, without giving them the opportunity to defend themselves in court.
Trump added in an interview that his lawyers “will of course follow the Supreme Court’s decision”. He has already made it clear in three different decisions that, on the basis of US law, Trump’s administration must allow fundamental procedural rights to immigrants.
In an interview with the NBC News, Trump also said that the pursuit of the third presidential term “is not something I would like to do”. “It’s something that, as far as I know, is not allowed to do,” he added. AFP explains that the US Constitution allows each person to hold the US President only twice.
