Following a meeting with NATO secretary general Jens Stoltenberg, Trump went full Autocrat while trying to act tough about his threats to close the border with Mexico. As the meeting was overshadowed by the latest of Trump’s border related tantrums following his loss in the Midterm elections.
"And what we have to do is Congress has to meet quickly and make a deal. I could do it in 45 minutes.
We have to get rid of chain migration.
We have to get rid of catch and release, and visa lottery, and we have to do something about asylum, and be honest with you, we have to get rid of judges.
Every time, and you won’t even beleive this Mr General Secretary, you catch somebody who’s coming illegally into our country and they bring him to a court...”
If it weren’t for Judges adjudicating the law, we’d be left with an autocracy, and apparently that’s what Mr. Trump would prefer for the USA.
Are we a country of laws or are we a country of men?
Men like Donald Trump?
Update:
Now Trump is working to undermine American democracy in an address he gave to the National Republican Congressional Committee's annual spring dinner.
BY MICHAEL BURKE
The president added that Republicans should be "paranoid" about Democrats winning close elections and said he doesn't "like the way votes are being tallied."
"You gotta be a little bit more paranoid than you are," he told Republican lawmakers. "We have to be a little bit careful, because I don't like the way the votes are being tallied. I don’t like it and you don’t like it either. You just don’t want to say it because you’re afraid of the press.”