LOS ANGELES.–Interviews at his Mar-a-Lago estate by Kristen Welker on “Meet The Press,” 78-year-old President Donald Trump put his critics to shame, showing, as he did last week on ABC News with Terry Moran, that he’s several steps ahead of journalists trying to make him look bad. Moran followed in the ABC tradition of George Stephanopoulos and David Muir to embarrass and entrap Trump with current Democrat talking points, far from anything considered respectable journalism. Trump knew that NBC’s “Meet The Press” wanted to get their shot at the president, raising fake news favorites like Trump wants to takeover Canada and Greenland, both fake news stories. Trump likes to rile up his based with incendiary comments about taking sovereignty of Canada and Greenland, something that wouldn’t happen unless both countries wanted to join the United States.
Trump would certainly welcome both countries if they were interested in joining the U.S. but certainly wouldn’t take over either country by force. Commemorating Trump’s first 100 days in office, Democrats and the fake news want to show it was a disaster, when, in fact, any object appraisal shows progress on many fronts, including the economy and foreign policy. First on Welker’s list was to ask Trump whether he believe in due process, citing the case of Maryland resident Kilmar Abrego Garcia who was deported to an El Salvador prison without a court order. Welker asked Trump whether U.S. citizens and noncitizens deserve due process as laid out in the Dec. 15, 1791 Fifth Amendment. “I don’t know. I’m not a lawyer. I don’t know,” Trump said when pushed by Welker for an answer. Welker wanted to make Trump out like he was deliberately flouting the Constitution.
Implementing his news border policy of sealing the border and deporting illegal aliens and illegal alien criminals, Trump was reluctant to play Welker’s gotcha game. Trump has said that Abrego Garcia was a dangerous gang member, something denied by Democrats and the fake news. Trump told Welker he had “brilliant lawyers . . .that they are going to obviously follow what the Supreme Court said,” referring to recent order to “facilitate” the return of Abrego Garcia. So far, Abrego Garcia continues in El Salvador custody but not in the supermax prison designed for terrorists, gang members and international drug cartels. Trump told Welker that he was working to deport “some of the worst, most most dangerous people on Earth,” but the courts were making things difficult. “I was elected to get them the hell of out of here, and the courts are holding me from doing it,” Trump told Welker.
Asking Trump whether he would run again for president, Welker used another fake Democrat talking point that Trump plays king, doesn’t think the Constitution applies to him. “But this is not something I’m looking to do,” Trump said. “I’m looking o have four great years and turn it over to somebody, ideally a great Republican, a great Republican to carry it forward,” Trump said, a perfectly reasonable explanation. But Welker kept digging with her Democrat-driven questions designed to make Trump look like a rogue dictator. When comes to making Trump look bad, the fake news has turned it into a science. Asking Trump whether he subscribes to the U.S. Constitution is a crass Democrat insult. How can a credentialed journalist ask such biased question to a sitting president? Welker questioned Trump when he said Americans should do with three dolls rather than 30, a kind of scarcity.
Welker’s line of questioning on NBC’s “Meet the Press” is an outright disgrace, insinuating that Trump doesn’t follow the Constitution, wants to take over Canada and Greenland or taking Russia’s side in the Ukraine War. All of Welker’s questions were designed to validate fake Democrat talking points that Trump wants to be king, not president. Wasting time on whether he seeks a third term or whether he sees scarcity on the horizon is just another Democrat diversionary tactic. Debating the Fifth or Fourteenth amendments’ due process is another red herring for Welker, knowing it’s up to lawyers and courts how to process deportations of illegal aliens. Above all else, Trump showed he can talk circles around robotic journalists wasting precious time with predigested Democrat talking points, all designed to make Trump look like a fool.
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John M. Curtis writes politically neutral commentary analyzing spin in national and global news. He’s editor of OnlineColumnist.com and author of Dodging The Bullet and Operation Charisma.
