President Trump labels US justice system 'laughing stock' https://t.co/Q3uhzWLFqP
— Vaughn Sterling (@vplus) November 1, 2017
… Trump’s comments, made during a White House Cabinet meeting Wednesday, malign the justice system for a lack of toughness. Attorney General Jeff Sessions, the head of the so-called ‘laughing stock’ justice system, was in the room for this comment — sitting across from Trump.
The President also said he would consider sending the attacker to the controversial prison at Guantanamo Bay.
“We also have to come up with punishment that’s far quicker and far greater than the punishment these animals are getting right now,” Trump told reporters. “They’ll go through court for years. And at the end, they’ll be — who knows what happens.”
He added: “We need quick justice and we need strong justice — much quicker and much stronger than we have right now. Because what we have right now is a joke and it’s a laughing stock. And no wonder so much of this stuff takes place.”
White House press secretary Sarah Sanders, defending the President, claimed during her Wednesday briefing with reporters that Trump said “the process has people calling us a joke and calling us a laughing stock” — which is not what Trump said.
Trump’s call to get tougher on terrorism fall in line with the same rhetoric he used during the campaign trail, where he called the Geneva Convention — a 1949 agreement that dictates international rules on torture and humanitarian treatment of prisoners — a problem that the United States had to move past…
Legal scholars are divided on whether Trump could actually send people to Guantanamo, with most acknowledging that such an action would set up an unprecedented constitutional showdown…
The good news is, this seems to have been preempted (for now):
BREAKING / NBC News: The Manhattan federal court has sent out an advisory that terror suspect Sayfullo Saipov will be charged today.
— Tom Winter (@Tom_Winter) November 1, 2017
Trump: I might send him to Gitmo.
Sanders: He’s an enemy combatant.
DOJ: Nope, we’re charging him in fed ct.
What an embarrassing spectacle. https://t.co/C7O9Kw3UMT— Matthew Miller (@matthewamiller) November 1, 2017
But not before a couple of prior offenders jumped in front of the cameras…
Speaking with @FoxNews in just a few minutes about why the terror suspect in the NYC attack should be held as an enemy combatant.
— Lindsey Graham (@LindseyGrahamSC) November 1, 2017
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