GOP Sen. John Kennedy says Trump administration should not send Americans to foreign prisons
Senator John Kennedy, R. La returned.
When asked in NBC News “Meet the Press” if he believed that the law allows Trump to send local criminals to foreign prisons, Kennedy said, “No, my lady,” adding: “We have our own laws. We have the eighth amendment to the constitution.
His remarks come after Trump Fox News on Tuesday that his administration was “looking” in the possibility of sending what he called “local criminals” to foreign prisons.
“I call them local criminals. I mean the house – the one that grew up and grew up in something,” Trump said, adding: “We are looking for it and we want to do that. I would like to do that.”
Kennedy also spoke to the supervisor Christine Wilker Kilmar Abrago GarciaMaryland man who admits the Trump administration was accidentally deported to El Salvador, so he claims that Abyerigo Garcia is a member of the MS-13 gang. (The wife of Abra Garcia and the lawyers denies this claim.)
“It was the nail,” Kennedy said.
“I don’t see any style here. I was listening to my democratic friends, I don’t know, because God was a child, that Trump poses a threat to democracy. I don’t see any pattern here. I see the nail,” Kennedy said.
The Republican Party, which occupied the headlines earlier this year With his remarks On the need of Trump administration officials to follow the courts’ orders, he told Wilker that he does not believe that the administration ignores federal judicial rulings in this case. Democrats, who refer to the judicial decisions that ordered the Trump administration to “”Facilitate“Abo Garcia’s return to the United States, claims the opposite.
“I don’t think President Trump will challenge the Federal Judge.
Kennedy also talked about Trump’s comments this week about Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell, which included the president’s statements that “”I am not happy“With Powell and ending the chair”It cannot come soon enough.“
Federal reserve chairs are usually appointed by presidents and confirmation by the Senate to serve four years, which enhances their independence from the current administration in power.
Powell was first nominated by Trump during his first term, in 2017, and he was nominated to spend a second term by then President Joe Biden in 2022.
Kennedy told Welker: “I do not think that the president, any president, has the right to remove the Federal Reserve Speaker,” Kennedy told Welker. “I think the federal reserve should be independent.”
Al -Senator also gave some advice to the two men a week after Trump, Powers in Powell, saying: “I think Jay Powell and President Trump need to sit, and again, they embrace and a cup of hot cocoa and work on it.”
