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Donald Trump Has No Idea How To Fix Immigration....interview with George Stephanopoulos
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-immigration_55d9d16ee4b0a40aa3ab37e4?kvcommref=mostpopular
Business mogul Donald Trump has repeatedly bemoaned the supposed influx of undocumented immigrants migrating across the border, calling them rapists and criminals and last week, advocating for an end to birthright citizenship. But on Sunday, when pressed by ABCs George Stephanopoulos on how he would address the problem, the Republican presidential hopeful struggled to give a definitive answer and instead claimed he would just hire great people who know how.
The full transcript of the exchange, in all of its glory (emphasis ours):
STEPHANOPOULOS: Where are you going to get the money, where are you going to get the forces? Exactly how are you going to do it? What are the specifics here?
TRUMP: George, it's called management. And the first thing we have to do is secure the border. But it's called management. And we'll get people back in, the really good ones, we're going to expedite it so they get back in, so they can at least come in legally.
But we have to do it...
STEPHANOPOULOS: You keep declaring how you're going to do it...
TRUMP: It's management.
STEPHANOPOULOS: -- but you don't say...
TRUMP: We don't...
STEPHANOPOULOS: -- how.
TRUMP: Excuse me, George?
STEPHANOPOULOS: You declare how you're going to to it, but you don't say how.
TRUMP: George, I'm telling you, it's called management. You can do this and we can expedite the good ones to come back in. And everybody wants that. But they have to come in legally.
We have a country, we have to have -- we're a country of laws. We're a country of borders. How can you have a country without a border? How can you have a country without laws?
We have to do it. And by the way, what you said in your piece initially is the gang members. You look at the gang members in Baltimore, Chicago, in Ferguson, these people, a lot of them, are illegals. These are rough dudes. And we're going to get them to hell out fast.
STEPHANOPOULOS: I -- I understand that you think it's a huge problem, but I still don't hear specifics on how you're going to do this.
TRUMP: Well, you'll see...
STEPHANOPOULOS: -- for example...
TRUMP: -- my specifics, George. But my specifics are very -- I'm going to get great people that know what they're doing, not a bunch of political hacks that have no idea what they're doing, appointed by President Obama, that doesn't have a clue. I mean that man doesn't have a clue.
Trump doubled down on an earlier false claim that gang members in Baltimore, Chicago, in Ferguson are undocumented.
In discussing his supposed immigration plan, Trump also attacked his GOP opponents for having no clue.
These people don't know what they're doing, George. They're politicians, he said.
When pushing Trump to name specific measures or policies proved fruitless, Stephanopoulos decided to move on.
STEPHANOPOULOS: I still haven't heard the specifics on how you're going to do that, but I'm going to move on...
TRUMP: Oh, you'll hear it, George. Don't worry about it.
STEPHANOPOULOS: I'm going to move on right now.
TRUMP: You'll hear it.
TRUMP: It's called good management and it's called great people.
*what a stupid jerk, and to think people will vote for him*
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)Glimmer of Hope
(5,823 posts)spanone
(135,886 posts)when you have shit-for-brains, articulation is difficult
RKP5637
(67,112 posts)RKP5637
(67,112 posts)was pulling answers outta his butt. He has no idea about the costs or implementation. All he could say was it's management. Like WTF, I've been with and worked with very high powered management, and yes, from Wharton. They always had plans and answers! Trump has ZERO! He must think the entire nation is as stupid as his flock.
SummerSnow
(12,608 posts)is that there are people out there who supports his bullshit and hopes there are enough stupid ones to get him in the Whitehouse
RKP5637
(67,112 posts)stupid people. There are probably enough damn fools in this country to propel him to the WH.
DawgHouse
(4,019 posts)politicaljunkie41910
(3,335 posts)that Trump did not seem to know what was in his own Policy Statement on Immigration that Senator Jeff Sessions co-authored with Trump.
politicaljunkie41910
(3,335 posts)When it was pointed out that every man, woman, and child was entitled to a hearing before deportation and that could take a long, long time, for 11 million people and cost in the hundreds of billions of dollars, Trump just said, "trust me".
SummerSnow
(12,608 posts)This guy is an ass
Volaris
(10,274 posts)If due process can now be done through the Executive Branch (regarding terror suspects) instead of the Judicial, then that precedent can be applied to whatever else the other 2 branches of government feel like abdication responsibility on. They just need convincing that this is something that needs doing. And with a majority Idiot Congress, that wouldn't be difficult.
THIS is the danger with trusting A President with something like this, is that you end up having to trust ALL of them with it.
Tommy_Carcetti
(43,199 posts)It's got electrolytes. And management. And hey look, scary brown people!
davidpdx
(22,000 posts)can resist the urge to jump off a building after interviewing Donald Trump. What he says is so insane, if I had to sit there and listen to it for two hours I honestly would go check myself into a funny farm and tell them to put me in a straight jacket and a padded room.
0rganism
(23,971 posts)of course he doesn't have a clear line on the details for implementing his immigration goals -- it's impossible, so there are no details.
instead, he makes a big deal out of how he's going to achieve it through management alone -- he's the BEST MANAGER THAT EVER LIVED so naturally he'll handle it fine. he'll put the BEST PEOPLE on it (not like that Obama fuckwit, eh?), and through some miracle they'll come up with a working plan to prevent undocumented people from entering the country and deport every single undocumented anchor-baby-generating gang member in North America. lots of people want to believe this. special people. passionate people. his idiot supporters.
it's all crap. i suppose, in his defense, a lot of campaign promises are crap. still he has put forth an above-average load of crapola in a very short amount of time with a very high degree of media coverage.