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President Donald Trump downplayed his involvement in invoking the Alien Enemies Act of 1789 to deport Venezuelan migrants, saying for the first time that he hadn't signed the proclamation, even as he stood by his administration's move.

cnn.itTrump says he didn’t sign proclamation invoking Alien Enemies Act | CNN PoliticsPresident Donald Trump on Friday downplayed his involvement in invoking the Alien Enemies Act of 1789 to deport Venezuelan migrants, saying for the first time that he hadn’t signed the proclamation, e...

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Mister I love signing my name with a sharpie didn’t invoke the act to deport Venezuelans to a foreign prison. He even had a press release about it How stupid does he think Americans are? Then I look at his approval rating and wonder if I think they are smarter than they are.

Ummmmm, according to press secretary MAGA Barbie, you most certainly did sign it. Oh wait was she lying? are you lying? I think someone is and Teflon Trump never ever takes responsibility for anything that might look like it’s a problem. Who will he throw under the bus? Hey, Marco….

Mark Rubio defense: "I was only following orders" The "Nuremberg defense," was a prominent argument used by Nazi officials in the post-WWII Nuremberg trials, claiming they were merely carrying out orders from superiors, but this defense was rejected by the court.

Who signed the Trump proclamation? Is Trump’s staff using “Autopen” to create documents without his knowledge? Or is Trump lying and refusing to accept responsibility for his actions? Trump has previously claimed no responsibility for things that are bad or unpopular.

if he didn’t sign it, that means no one has “official orders” to remove anyone - if he did sign it, he got caught lying yet again … so which is it??? No proclamation because he didn’t sign one, or did he really sign one and now is lying to cover up the fact

Deny, deny, deny. Some reporter should ask Trump which is the true: 1) That he's lying that he didn't sign the Alien Enemies Act order, or 2) That he hasn't a fuqqing clue what's what anymore and evil surrogates are running the White House for him.

what you’re seeing isn’t what’s happening. they’ll tell us later what we saw. and then, 10 days later, they can tell us that we didn’t see what they told us we saw. see?

Trump's attempt at distancing his actions and looking for a fall guy. Typical Trump. His signature should be enough for articles of impeachment, violating the oath he took to protect the Constitutional right of citizens under due process.

A nation can survive its fools but it cannot survive treason from within. The traitor appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of some men. He rots the soul of a nation, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear. The traitor is the plague.

Trump is a sadist, one who derives pleasure from inflicting pain, suffering, or humiliation on others, either physically or emotionally or both. There is nothing he enjoys more. He is a human pig defined by the Seven Deadly Sins: pride, greed, wrath, envy, lust, gluttony, sloth, betrayal & treason

Invoking a 200+ year old WARTIME laws to circumvent the constitution annd violate peoples rights then lying about it is grounds for impeachment (which his toads will never do) or REVOLUTION AGAINST TYRANICAL STATE.

That is his whole thing , he acts like a King and puts all the other shit on others so they will be accused of the shit he is doing ,therefore his hands are clean and the uneducated or cult members will say he is innocent

Apparently British 🇬🇧 people visiting the states now have to carry their passports with them at all times in the US. It’s hardly practical when you’re a tourist because it could get lost or stolen. Yet this is where we are.

i live in Greece and by law i am supposed to have my passport on me at all times,being British i know i would get a chance to go and get it but if i was any other third nation country,i could be in trouble. America is not a place i have eve wanted to visit but i wouldn't go now if you paid me too.

What are you doing CNN? How is it implemented if he didn’t sign it? No one else has authority to implement the Act. 50 USC 21. “…The President is authorized in any such event, by his proclamation thereof, or other public act, to direct the conduct…” Not that there is a legal basis to use it.

He’s incompetent, a puppet & those around him are making dangerous chilling decisions. He’s just saying yay or nay. When is @cnn going to report this fact. He’s incapable of governing.

You guys smell that? It smells like bull💩! 💩 come out his mouth all the time. The swamp they said that was in DC is now sewer waste station! You can smell it across the nation! Nasty smelly sewer water. Trump waste station.

He really can't go around touting that his administration's unconstitutional actions are actually covered by a presidential proclamatiom and then be like "but I didn't sign it!" Either he did and this voids it, or didn't and it was never valid. Whichever, his statement should nullify it now.

Impeach. Seriously. This is consciousness of guilt. He knows this is about to blow up in his face. He tried to disappear legal status migrants into foreign concentration camps, and now he's scared. Impeach this piece of dogshit. Make Republicans defend this.

Still seeing where this is going, but sort of. The thing is that they clearly didn't want anyone to realize that this was happening, and then they were in court before planes had even landed. So now we get oversight, and have to hope that Boesberg isn't a coward or a tool.

No. That's... not what happened. That's not an accurate summation of what occurred or the most consequential or salient cause for publishing this news event. Truth, in a world of lies, deserves the front page. Nuance finds its place in the graphs on A10.

At one moment he claims to be “commander and chief” of the most powerful nation in the world…then he claims I had nothing to do with it….how convenient! Another Trump moment of sending someone down the river to save his ass!

The Trumpet, at the first sign of revolt, happily throws Rubix under the bus. Well done everyone, the president who only takes responsibility for the 'good' victories.

Who the fuck is running the country???!!! Why are you guys not on this issue? You fuckers hunted down Biden for every single error as senile, but Trump gets lazy headlines like this.

Lol trump is going to leave Tom and Christy holding the bag. As soon as trump leaves office (if he ever dose) the ICC is going to come calling for these two trump would be exempt, but these two will take the fall. And if the president is a Democrat he should hand them over

Time to start setting off the alarms for the American people. You legacy media outlets simply cannot afford to both sides this and downplay that we are in a full-blown authoritarian takeover. Report with the urgency the moment requires.

“President Trump was obviously referring to the original Alien Enemies Act that was signed back in 1798,” White House communications director Steven Cheung said in the statement. - What a sleight of hand. Who would believe that is what the question was about?!!!

Of course that's what it is, but the journalists aren't saying that and if they're not going to say it—if they're giving credibility to the Administration's lies—they need to follow up on the implications of that credibility.

Poor reporting CNN. It would take 5 mins for a junior reporter to find the relevant docs and clearly see he did sign them. This would then be the final line of this clip. Call him out everytime he lies.

So Trump's not responsible for the things he tells the government to do and Elon's not in charge of the department Trump says he's in charge of? Do I have that right? This is the "Party of Personal Responsiblity"? Suuuuuuuure.

Could some ACTUAL REPORTER find out WHO did sign it? FFS it’s a hard copy, PUBLIC document. GO LOOK AT IT! Is it auto penned? Is it someone else’s signature? 🤦‍♀️ Finish the investigation instead of writing just what happened. Looking for a journalist. Beuller! Beuller!?