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2016 Postmortem

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duncang

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Sat Aug 13, 2016, 12:02 AM Aug 2016

Military trials for U.S. citizens "would be fine" with dipshit donnie [View all]

Yep, I'm surprised this hasn't been mentioned more today. This is another in the long list of is he really that clueless things he has said. In a interview with the Miami Herald he said he would be okay with that. He did hedge some on it. So the apologists will be out on this. I think he really needs Mr Khan's copy of the Constitution plus all federal laws.

Quoting from Miami Herald

"A President Donald Trump might push for Americans accused of terrorism to be tried in a military tribunal at the U.S. Navy base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, the Republican nominee told the Miami Herald on Thursday.

“I would say they could be tried there, that would be fine,” Trump said in a brief interview ahead of his speech to home builders in Miami Beach.

Under current federal law, it’s illegal to try U.S. citizens at military commissions. Changing the law would require an act of Congress."

Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/election/donald-trump/article95144337.html#storylink=cpy


Just to make sure the link which auto copied makes it. Here is the Heralds page.
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/election/donald-trump/article95144337.html

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