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WH backpedals on Trump's 'due process' remark on guns
Source: The Hill
BY BEN KAMISAR - 03/05/18 03:40 PM EST
Link to tweet
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Speaking with lawmakers at the White House last Wednesday, Trump told lawmakers that he supports a plan to "take the guns first, go through due process second."
When pressed on the comments, which have drawn serious criticism from gun-rights supporters and Republican lawmakers, White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders tried to distance the president from that claim.
"The president thinks we need to expedite the process. He wants to make sure that if somebody is potentially harmful to themselves or other people that we have the ability to expedite that process," she said during a press conference on Monday.
"Still want to have due process, but we want to make sure it is not tied up for months and months and months, and someone that could potentially be dangerous is allowed to have a gun without us being able to expedite that process.
Read more: http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/376814-wh-backpedals-on-trumps-due-process-remark-on-guns
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WH backpedals on Trump's 'due process' remark on guns (Original Post)
DonViejo
Mar 2018
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truthisfreedom
(23,138 posts)1. Walking backwards is a skill everyone near 45 must perfect
He cant hit any target. Managing his Alzheimers has got to be fatiguing.
Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)2. Fake News is the Trump battle cry............but
When Trump tweets or says something he has a herd of people explaining what he said.
Does Trump promote Fake News??
jmowreader
(50,524 posts)3. That comment should scare everyone
If Trump will "take the guns first, go through due process second," what's going to stop him from throwing people in jail then thinking up something to charge them with? "Sentence first, verdict afterward" seems to be what Trump really wants.
Violations of due process by Trump should terrify anyone, no matter what constitutional right we're dealing with.
Fortinbras Armstrong
(4,473 posts)5. Exactly. I am all for strict gun control
But I am an even stronger supporter of the rule of law.