Trump To Issue New Executive Order To 'Protect Our Country'

[DonViejo]

Source: Talking Points Memo



By MATT SHUHAM PublishedFEBRUARY 16, 2017, 1:29 PM EDT

President Donald Trump announced Thursday that he would issue a new executive order to supplement his current immigration executive order, which has been suspended in an ongoing legal battle.

Trump’s original order temporarily suspended the United States’ refugee program and also temporarily halted travel and immigration to the United States from seven Muslim-majority countries, including indefinitely from Syria. A suspension of the implementation of the order was upheld recently by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.

“We're issuing a new executive action next week that will comprehensively protect our country,” Trump said, before referring to the old order: “So we'll be going along the one path and hopefully winning that. At the same time, we will be issuing a new and very comprehensive order to protect our people.”

“And that will be done sometime next week, toward the beginning or middle at the latest part,” he said, referring to the new order.

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Trump Says What Flynn Did 'Wasn't Wrong,' Blames Media For His Ouster

By ESME CRIBB Published FEBRUARY 16, 2017, 1:34 PM EDT

President Donald Trump said Thursday that former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn "wasn't wrong" for taking the actions that led to his resignation and blamed the media for reporting on it.

"What he did wasn't wrong, what he did in terms of the information he saw," Trump told reporters during a press conference. "What was wrong was the way that other people, including yourselves in this room, were given that information." Trump said that he was "not happy" with information leaked to the press by unnamed sources.

"That was classified information that was given illegally," Trump said. "That's the real problem. You can talk all you want about Russia, which is all a fake news, fabricated deal to try and make up for the loss of the Democrats, and the press plays right into it."

Trump said that he spoke to "a couple of the people that were supposedly involved" with Russian officials. "They know nothing about it. They weren't in Russia, they never made a phone call to Russia, they never received a phone call," Trump said. "It's all fake news. All fake news."

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[mnhtnbb]

1. Oh, my! Trump is going to resign in order to protect the country!

Who'd have guessed?!?

[Hortensis]

12. Lol. If THAT guaranteed endless admiring attention, he'd do it.

Someone writing advice to the media on how to cover him pointed out the obvious that will determine so much of his presidency: He craves attention and will be constantly doing things to get it.

I remember when our children were small. If being good didn't focus us on them, misbehaving certainly would. In those days, though, they usually collected under my feet wherever I was, and I could just open "their" cabinet and let them pull out all the pots and pans, or whatever, and go to town.

Trump's not all that different. Arrested emotionally somewhere in childhood. But he literally has a very strange and dysfunctional notion of what being "good" is, and we can't put him in timeout until the tantrum's over.

[Zoider]

2. Hopefully, the courts will continue to protect the country from Trump (nt)

[apnu]

3. If Flynn did nothing wrong, then why did Trump dump him?

This man is a loon.

[Ford_Prefect]

4. Newspeak 2.0

[BumRushDaShow]

5. He has to be snorting white lines

[notdarkyet]

6. Going to build a wall around the whole country.

[starshine00]

7. only the people that matter, those 'gated communities' already have theirs

[mahatmakanejeeves]

8. "So we'll be going along the one path...." Uh-oh. NT

[atreides1]

9. Martial Law???

He has his hand picked flunkies in place at DoJ, Defense, and DHS! We all know that the Republicans in Congress won't do shit to stop the man, and if he does declare martial law or a state of emergency...it's likely any federal judges that are considered a threat will be placed in "protective custody"!

[Thekaspervote]

10. If you read about martial law it has only been used twice

Congress gave Lincoln the right to declare martial law at the onset of the civil war, and after Pearl Harbor was bombed in 1941. Dump is stupid and he may think he can do that, in reality there is no need for martial law. The courts and even the repubs in congress would not go along with that. It would literally kill the economy.

Yes, these are scary times, let's not fan the flames of fear. That is what he WANTS!! No no no don't give into that fear or fan flames.

[Lucky Luciano]

11. No fuckface McShitgibbon - you are simply overwhelmed by the demands of the job. nt

[jmowreader]

13. You have to either admire or fear a guy who can't take "hell fucking no" for an answer

We can only hope Trump is stupid enough to try suspending the courts' authority to overturn his edicts. Not even THIS Congress would put up with that shit!

[FreeStateDemocrat]

14. That should be a letter of resignation if he really wants to protect us.