Trump Asked Point Blank If He Violated Judge's Order By Deporting Alleged Venezuelan Gang Members

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Speaking to reporters on Air Force One last night, President Trump was asked about the deportation of Venezuelan gang members.

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00:00Mr. President, did the administration actually, speaking of orders, violate Judge Boasberg's

00:05order in sending back the Venezuelan gang members and not bringing them back?

00:09I don't know.

00:10You'd have to speak to the lawyers about that.

00:11Are you planning to do more deportations?

00:12I can tell you this.

00:13These were bad people.

00:14That was a bad group of, as I say, hombres.

00:15That was a bad group.

00:16When you look at them and you look at the crimes that they've committed, you take a

00:17look.

00:18You don't get any tougher.

00:19You don't get worse.

00:20You understand that, but you'd have to ask the lawyers.

00:34Sir, there's been some criticism that the Alien Enemies Act has only been invoked three

00:38other times and they were all during times of war.

00:41Do you feel that you're using it appropriately right now?

00:44Well, this is a time of war because Biden allowed millions of people, many of them criminals,

00:50as many of them at the highest level.

00:53They emptied jails out.

00:54Other nations emptied their jails into the United States.

00:57That's an invasion.

00:59And these are criminals, many, many criminals.

01:01Murderers, drug dealers at the highest level,

01:06drug lords, people from mental institutions.

01:09That's an invasion.

01:12They invaded our country.

01:13So this isn't, in that sense, this is war.

01:18In many respects, it's more dangerous than war

01:20because, you know, in war, they have uniforms.

01:21You know who you're shooting at.

01:22You know who you're going after.

01:24These are people that came out.

01:26They're walking on the streets.

01:27We have thousands of murderers that Biden and his incompetence

01:31— he was always grossly incompetent —

01:33but that Biden and his people and his probably auto pen —

01:39it looked like we had an auto pen for a president.

01:42And we would have been better off if we had, probably.

01:44But it looks to me like, you know, that's a big subject.

01:47I'm sure you won't ask about that.

01:49But the whole subject of auto pen —

01:52did he know what he was doing? Did he authorize it?

01:55Or is this somebody in an office,

01:57maybe a radical-left lunatic,

01:59just signing whatever that person wants?

02:02That's not what the — you know what it's all about.

02:06I'd never use it.

02:07I mean, we may use it as an example

02:11to send some young person a letter because it's nice.

02:13You know, we get thousands and thousands of letters

02:16and letters of support for young people,

02:18for people that aren't feeling well, et cetera.

02:21But to sign pardons and all of the things

02:24that he signed with an auto pen is disgraceful.

Trump Asked Point Blank If He Violated Judge's Order By Deporting Alleged Venezuelan Gang Members

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