After letter from former undocumented employees, Trump feigns ignorance

[Eugene]

Source: Think Progress

After letter from former undocumented employees, Trump feigns ignorance

Trump claims he "didn't know" about undocumented workers at Trump properties.

CASEY MICHEL
JUL 6, 2019, 2:14 PM

Amid the ongoing immigration crisis in the U.S., President Donald Trump claimed this week that he “didn’t know” that his own properties had hired numerous undocumented migrants as long-time employees.

Asked specifically about undocumented employees at Trump’s numerous golf clubs, Trump pleaded ignorance to The New York Times on Friday.

“I don’t know because I don’t run it,” Trump said when asked about the immigration status of workers at his golf resorts. “But I would say this: Probably every club in the United States has that because it seems to be — from what I understand — a way that people did business.”

Trump’s claim comes amid revelations about a humanitarian crisis within America’s sprawling detentions centers. It also comes shortly after the Trump Organization announced it had fired nearly two dozen undocumented employees from golf courses in both New York and New Jersey. (The Trump Organization also announced it would now be using E-Verify, a governmental system providing information on employees’ legal status.)

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Read more: https://thinkprogress.org/after-letter-from-former-undocumented-employees-trump-feigns-ignorance-381ecbb48e45/

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Related: ‘I Don’t Run It’: Trump Responds to Reports of Undocumented Workers at His Properties (New York Times)

[Freethinker65]

1. Everyone knows businesses (especially Trump businesses) do not have to obey laws!! Next question

[Blue Owl]

2. Oh he knows damn well where he can cheat and cut corners

Nice try, Donny...

[Skittles]

3. LOL, the idea that Trump would ever need to "feign ignorance"

[ProudLib72]

4. Hold on a sec. The great businessman doesn't run his own businesses?

He doesn't even show the slightest interest in them, like whom they are hiring? Suddenly, when his businesses are caught doing something illegal, he wants to divest from them?

[gratuitous]

5. He really likes taking credit for success (even if it's unearned)

But blame? Oh, Donald wasn't involved in anything so untoward! It's unseemly to say so at all.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

6. how stupid are all those trump-humpers now?

He puts children in cages while delivering screeching, slobbering speeches at his rallies against illegals, yet gives jobs to undocumented workers instead of his voters. Dumb as a trumper is as low as you can get.

[jmowreader]

7. Trump is an extreme micromanager

Individual 1 could tell you what brand of toilet paper he uses in every one of his hotels, the price per roll, the number of days one roll lasts, the number of sheets per roll and the exact location of the mill that produces it...

...but he doesn't know anything about actual crimes happening at those properties? Sorry Donnie, I'm not buying it. Nor is anyone else.

[safeinOhio]

8. He only hires the best people....

Guess that won't be a talking point for him this election.

[catchnrelease]

9. Oh puleeese!!!

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[Mc Mike]

10. EVERYONE in tRump's business circles hires illegals. Always.

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All his buddies' golf resorts, all his buddies' hotel businesses, all his buddies' construction businesses. He's seen it for years. He knows all about it. It should almost be illegal, like 'flipping'.

He doesn't know about it, but he knows all about it.

Lying turd, lies like the boss's son.

[SammyWinstonJack]

11. LIAR!

[Vinca]

12. Bullshit. It's common knowledge he micromanaged his businesses (and probably still does).

Didn't the lady cleaning his Bedminster home pique his interest at all? I think she was there for years and years.