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63splitwindow

(2,657 posts)
Thu Aug 11, 2016, 11:44 PM Aug 2016

If you don't know the answer to a question, just say you don't know.

Don the Con must have been told that by his own lawyers in hundreds of his civil cases yet still can't do it.

Trump: 'Fine' with trying US citizens in military courts

" (CNN) Donald Trump said in an interview Thursday that he would support trying US citizens suspected of terrorism in military tribunals -- a controversial proposal that would likely be challenged as unconstitutional.

The Republican presidential nominee told the Miami Herald that he doesn't "at all" like the idea of trying terrorist suspects in the civilian court system, even though US citizens are constitutionally entitled to due process. He added that he would be "fine" with trying US citizens in military tribunals at Guantánamo Bay, the US naval base that is also home to a military prison housing captured terror suspects.

Trump addressed the Guantánamo Bay detention center, climate change and the Zika virus in a wide-ranging interview with the Miami Herald.
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more at: http://www.cnn.com/2016/08/11/politics/donald-trump-military-courts-election-2016/index.html

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If you don't know the answer to a question, just say you don't know. (Original Post) 63splitwindow Aug 2016 OP
Cue the brown shirts Glamrock Aug 2016 #1
This man would be an evil dictator angrychair Aug 2016 #2
At this point I don't even know what to say. He's just so fucking stupid. RAFisher Aug 2016 #3
We kill U.S. citizens by drone attacks. former9thward Aug 2016 #4

angrychair

(8,691 posts)
2. This man would be an evil dictator
Fri Aug 12, 2016, 12:38 AM
Aug 2016

By his own admission:

Threatening or encouraging harm to political rivals

Extraordinary rendition of US citizens to extrajudicial hearings in violation of their Constitutional rights

Building fortified concrete and militarized walls between us and two of our most significant trading partners, friends and allies, Mexico and Canada.

Rounding up and putting certain demographic groups into camps to deport them.

Extorting protection money from our allies and friends

That is only scratching the surface of the world tRump would give us.

RAFisher

(466 posts)
3. At this point I don't even know what to say. He's just so fucking stupid.
Fri Aug 12, 2016, 12:56 AM
Aug 2016

Even if we entertained this stupid idea I doubt Trump could even give one reason why this is needed. It's completely unconstitutional so a constitution amendment would be needed. I don't even know why I'm typing this. I'm trying to rebuke the ramblings of a narcissistic egomaniac.

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