Donald Trump, who is trying to push the limits of the presidential power since his return to the White House, said that he does not know if he has to respect the Constitution, the United States Supreme Legal Standard.
I don’t know
replied the American president, interviewed Sunday by NBC to find out if he thinks that he should respect the Constitution, which guarantees fair legal proceedings for all the people in American territory.
I have brilliant lawyers working for me and they will obviously follow what the Supreme Court said
however, he added.
Since the start of his second mandate, in January, Donald Trump has exercised the executive power like no other president in modern history, signing more than 140 decrees to reduce illegal immigration, to fight against the hate diversity or inclusion programs by the Conservatives and to dismantle the federal bureaucracy.
However, even the authority of the president has his limits and several of his decisions were blocked by judges, which regularly arouses the fury of the Republican.
Courts and courts of appeal to the federal level as well as the Supreme Court in particular provisionally blocked the use of a law of 1798 on foreign enemies
until then used exclusively in wartime and exhumed by the Trump administration to be able to stop immigrants accused of belonging to gangs and to expel them military hand Towards Salvador without any other form of trial.
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In this photo provided by the Salvadoral Government, prison guards escort a new detainee allegedly linked to Venezuelan criminal organizations at the Terrorism Confainment Center (CECOC), a Maximum Salvadorian security prison.
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This procedure has also been denounced by rights defense associations and by international organizations.
Asked to find out if the foreigners present on American soil must benefit from regular legal proceedings, as provided for in the Constitution, the republican billionaire said: I am not a lawyer. I don’t know.
Towards authoritarianism?
The very personal conception of power shown by the Republican worries part of the Americans, who fear an authoritarian drift.
Are you leading the country on the path of authoritarianism?
asked him on Sunday the journalist of NBC.
Why don’t you ask the question differently? Many people want to come to our country. Many people love Trump. I won the elections
assembled the interested party.
He also said that the Americans have absolutely
the right to criticize it without fear of reprisals before qualifying some of its detractors as malicious
.
He took the opportunity to attack again at the best of his enemies, the former Democrat-President Joe Biden, responsible according to him bad sides
of the American economy, of which Donald Trump attributes the good sides
.
No third term
The president also seemed to reject in his interview the hypothesis of a third term, which the Constitution prohibits: This is not what I’m trying to do
he said.
Since his return to the White House, he had nevertheless multiplied the allusions to this possibility, saying that there is methods
To do this and going so far as to offer clothing bearing the registration Trump 2028
– The year of the next American presidential election – in his online store.
I want to spend four very good years and give way to someone else, ideally a great republican.
The president cited his vice-president JD Vance and his secretary of state Marco Rubio as potential successors.
However, it is still far too early to say it
he also said.
