Trump’s Latest Horrible Statement: Try US Citizens in Gitmo Military Tribunals
In the never-ending barrage of bad craziness pouring out of Donald Trump’s twisted mind, his latest awful idea is to try US citizens accused of terrorism in military tribunals at Guantanamo Bay.
Which would be completely illegal, of course. But Trump seems to believe he’ll be able to do a whole lot of things that are outside the bounds of legality if he’s elected president.
Asked about Guantánamo in the past, Trump has said he would like to “load it up with bad dudes.” He wouldn’t specify to the Herald whether as president he would again allow terrorism suspects captured abroad to be transferred to the detention center.
“I want to make sure that if we have radical Islamic terrorists, we have a very safe place to keep them,” he said. President Barack Obama, he added, is “allowing people to get out that are terrible people.”
“Would you try to get the military commissions — the trial court there — to try U.S. citizens?” a reporter asked.
“Well, I know that they want to try them in our regular court systems, and I don’t like that at all. I don’t like that at all,” he said. “I would say they could be tried there, that would be fine.”