"I don't know," President Donald Trump said when asked if he has an obligation to uphold the Constitution as president.
Trump made disturbing comments in an interview with NBC's Kristen Welker See the media Millions of immigrants will be deported when discussing his campaign commitments. Trump himself is free because he exploited his due process rights and he denied his same rights to immigrants who tried El Salvador’s infamous super prison.
"Your Secretary of State said that everyone, citizens and non-citizens deserve due process. Mr. President, do you agree?" Welk asked Trump.
He said, "I don't know. I'm not, I'm not a lawyer. I don't know."
It was a terrible answer to the president, who, like other presidents before him, swore in his oath of office to “protect, protect and defend the U.S. Constitution.”
When Welker pressed Trump, he pointed out that the Fifth Amendment gave due process to everyone in the United States, he said again: "I don't know."
"It seems - it might be said that, but if you're talking about it, then we have to go through a million or a million or 3 million trials." "We have thousands of people who are some murderers and some drug dealers, and some of the worst people on the planet."
The Fifth Amendment states: “No one is deprived of life, freedom or property without proper legal proceedings”, “there is no difference between a citizen and a non-citizen.
Welk then asked Trump whether he needed to "uphold the U.S. constitution as president."
"I don't know," Trump said, "his lawyers "will obviously follow what the Supreme Court said."
But, he added: "What you said is not what the Supreme Court said I heard. They have different interpretations."
The Supreme Court unanimously ruled that Trump must bring back Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, a Maryland man recognized by Trump's own lawyer, who was accidentally deported to El Salvador. Abrego Garcia's deportation violates the judge's earlier "free from demolition" order
In the second half of last month, the court also temporarily blocked Trump from using the Alien Enemy Act to expel another group of Venezuelan immigrants without first granting them the opportunity for deportation.
Despite Trump's complaints that "communist, left-wing judges" are blocking his deportation, even though he nominated three current Supreme Court justices. Even a federal district court judge appointed by Trump ruled that he used the Foreign Enemy Act to deport undocumented immigrants and denied that their due process was illegal.
"The president cannot publicly declare a foreign or government threat or commit an invasion or predatory invasion of the United States and then identify a foreign enemy who has been detained or removed from office," District Court Judge Fernando Rodriguez Jr. wrote in a ruling on Thursday.
But in an interview, Trump insisted that he had the election task of deporting undocumented immigrants.
"I was elected as their hell and the court stopped me from doing so," he said.
In a recent Newsnation-DDHQ poll, the majority of respondents (51%) said immigrants without legal status have the right to have due process before being deported.