When Kristen Welker, host of the NBC News show Meet the Press, asked convicted felon, sexual abuser and President Trump in a TV interview whether as President he needs to uphold the U.S. Constitution, Trump answered,
“I don’t know.”
On January 20, 2025, Trump took the Presidential oath of office, saying: “I do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.”
The Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution guarantees due process to all “persons” in the United States. Its does not say these rights only pertain to U.S. citizens.
“Due process” means the governments must follow certain procedures before depriving people of their life, liberty or interest in property. Due process procedures include things like being afforded a court hearing, holding grand juries and the opportunity for people to be informed of the charges against them and present evidence against the charges.
Trump’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) bureau has so far kidnapped hundreds of people off the streets of the U.S., including people legally present in the U.S., for “offenses” as small as co-authoring an op-ed Trump doesn’t like, or having the wrong tattoos, hustling them off to detention centers and sending them to a prison in El Salvador without offering them any due process, in violation of the U.S. Constitution. When a Court ordered the federal government to bring the people back and give them the required due process court hearings over their rendition to the foreign prison, Trump refused to comply.
On April 16, Trump said he hopes to deport U.S. citizens to offshore prisons as well.
House Democrats on the Judiciary Committee introduced an amendment to a budget bill currently under consideration that would have required the federal government to abide by the U.S. Constitution and provide all persons due process before removing anyone from the U.S. and sending them to foreign prisons.
House Republicans voted down the amendment.
A president who says he “doesn’t know” if all persons present in the country must get due process under the Constitution indicates how exceedingly unqualified and incompetent Trump is to be president.
Since he was inaugurated, Trump has been on an unconstitutional rampage, violating the Constitution many ways, from trying to eliminate birthright citizenship — another guarantee in the Constitution — to writing executive orders to withhold Congressionally-appropriated funds to multiple federal agencies and U.S. institutions like universities, in attempts to destroy those agencies and institutions he targets.
Sometimes I think he just says this stuff to get you people going. It wouldn’t be terribly surprising to find out some day that Trump had a secret contract with MSNBC that he provide them with the outrage content they’ve been living off of for the last ten years.
And really what does it mean to “uphold” the constitution?…to obey it?
There were at least two times that Biden blatantly disregarded what the Supreme Court determined was constitutional and not a peep was heard from the left.
Astounding!…not.
What were those times? Or is this like the three million illegal immigrants that Obama deported without due process that you can’t seem to find any actual information about?