Who wants to tell him that we get that right whether he supports it or not?

  • kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world
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    Asked in the interview whether U.S. citizens and noncitizens alike deserve due process as laid out in the Fifth Amendment of the Constitution, Trump was noncommittal.

    “I don’t know. I’m not, I’m not a lawyer. I don’t know,” Trump said when pressed by Welker.

    Do you need to be a lawyer to be aware of the Bill of Rights? He’s been President for more than 4 total years, head of the executive branch charged with executing the law for the entire country, has a whole staff of lawyers advising him, and has, himself, pled the 5th (!) and he’s still not even familiar with the 5th amendment?

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      And he’s sworn to uphold the Constitution (though a serial liar like him is about as trustworthy as a fox watching the chicken house)