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President Donald Trump told reporters Friday evening that he did not sign the controversial proclamation invoking the Alien Enemies Act to quickly deport migrants his administration says are violent gang members from Venezuela.
“I don’t know when it was signed, because I didn’t sign it,” Trump said on the South Lawn of the White House as he prepared to leave for his golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey. “Other people handled it. But Marco Rubio’s done a great job. And he wanted them out, and we go along with that. We want to get criminals out of our country.”
But White House Communications Director Steven Cheung said late Friday that Trump did personally sign the proclamation.
In a statement the past weekend, Rubio hailed Trump’s decision-making.
“Under the President’s direction, his administration invoked the Alien Enemies Act to initiate the removal of hundreds of dangerous members of Tren de Aragua (TdA), a vicious and violent Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO), which has been threatening our nation, conducting irregular warfare, and terrorizing Americans,” he wrote in a statement.
Did he or didn’t he sign it? Does he or doesn’t he remember signing it?
Either he’s losing it or it’s his typical ploy of a whack-a-mole tactic of never taking responsible for anything that doesn’t put him in a positive light. And attempting to throw Rubio under the bus.
But shouldn’t we have a president that knows what he’s signed? And shouldn’t a president take responsibility for his actions when it’s pointed out that he actually did what he is saying he did not? Especially something as important as using a war power?
I’m curious because it seems like there was a huge uproar about Joe Biden’s mental acuity while president.
If you shrug and move on hypocrisy is alive and well in the GOP.
