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Trump says he doesn't know if he needs to uphold constitutional due process, won't seek third term
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3:14Now PlayingPresident Donald Trump says he doesn’t know whether American citizens are entitled to due process rights as defined by the Fifth Amendment of the Constitution.
Trump made the comments in a wide-ranging, and at moments combative, interview with NBC’s "Meet the Press" that was taped at Mar-a-Lago and aired Sunday morning. He also discussed his desire for Canada to become the 51st state and didn’t rule out military action for taking over Greenland.
The comments come as the Republican president's efforts to quickly enact his agenda face more criticism from Americans as his second administration crosses the 100-day mark, recent polls show. Trump, however, made clear that he is not backing away.
Asked in the interview whether U.S. citizens and noncitizens alike deserve due process as laid out in the Fifth Amendment of the Constitution, Trump was noncommittal.
"I don’t know. I’m not, I’m not a lawyer. I don’t know," Trump said when pressed by "Meet the Press" host Kristen Welker.
The Fifth Amendment provides "due process of law," meaning a person has certain rights when it comes to being prosecuted for a crime. Also, the 14th Amendment says no state can "deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws."
Critics have tried to make the case that Trump is chipping away at due process in the United States. Most notably, they cite the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran man who was living in Maryland when he was mistakenly deported to El Salvador and imprisoned without communication.
Trump says Abrego Garcia is part of a violent transnational gang. The Republican president has sought to turn deportation into a test case for his campaign against illegal immigration despite a Supreme Court order saying the administration must work to return Abrego Garcia to the U.S.
Trump said he has "brilliant lawyers ... and they are going to obviously follow what the Supreme Court said."
He said he was pushing to deport "some of the worst, most dangerous people on Earth," but that courts are getting in his way.
"I was elected to get them the hell out of here, and the courts are holding me from doing it," Trump said.
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