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Trump says he wasn’t the one who invoked Alien Enemies Act: ‘Other people handled it’
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The buck stops somewhere I guess.
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Shit rolls downhill, and Trump is crouching on top of the turd pile.
So then all of those people who did it and acted on it were kidnapping. Great, lock them up.
Orwell, please stop predicting things.
The donvict motto: "the bucks stops with 'that was other kids'".
Certifiable retard.
hey look, I don't know what's going on, I just work here. ask someone who's responsible. the buck stops somewhere over there.
Purely pathological
So… someone else is drafting EO’s and using his signature? How exactly is that better?
Must have used autopen...
Autopen is written in that invisible ink we had as kids!
The autopen has achieved sentience.
"Look, people, I'll make this simple so that everyone understands: If you hate the thing I did, I didn't do it. If you love the thing someone else did, I did it. Easy."
This is far too easy to comprehend for a quote from that stack of rancid orange whale shit. There needs to be lots more tangents and useless bits of inane waffling in there.
The buck stops with... I don't know, someone else.
We already knew that Putin is the fucking president.
It almost resembles a Nuremberg plea speech.
Even if that's the case tough shit. Scratching through that Teflon coating you fucker.
Afraid of everything, a coward given all the power of the executive and capable of only whining, shifting blame, and scapegoating the working class and poor. How evil do you have to be to deny asylum seekers and refugees?
Not sure if Mafia boss or toddler.
What he is, is the most prolific traitor in American history, worse than ALL other American traitors COMBINED.
He and the people propping him up. There are a fair number of them.
Not sure if he's an idiot or loofah sponge filled with jello.
This nutgobbler has never taken accountability for anything.
The buck stops somewhere else.
Ah so it was autopen. Then it needs rescinding doesn’t it according to your own logic.
Dick head.
Also just confirms he isn’t running the show. The “deep state” and his “handlers” are, according to MAGA logic.
Dick heads.
Knew that whole "Biden didn't even sign the EOs!" had to be projection and setting up for something. Here it is. They don't even need him to rubberstamp shit anymore, just full Weekend at Bernie's with our senile walking corpse president. Hooray.
But don't worry, this ends once Trump leaves office /s
Probably saw some of the impeach comments on social media. It still galls me the folks that want to treat things from maga with the same weight as democrats or any other political figure. When you are a bald face liar no one should believe you without massive evidence what you say is true. I have known and sorta assume it was prevalent enough that most other folks knew, that person, that friend, maybe that family member ; who is always full of shit. You hear something from them and you assume its bs unless someone more credible mentions it and then maybe you put some effort to look into it.
JFC can he not take even the slightest criticism without shirking his responsibility? What a sad joke he is.
I mean, it’s in the federal register with his signature on it: https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2025-03-20/pdf/2025-04865.pdf
There’s no way to know if it was done with autopen, his hands, or some intern using the Annotate->Add Signature feature on their MacBook or whatever but his signature is on it.
You have to be alert for good news. Otherwise it’s all too depressing.
This is truly good news. He is lining up the first round of sycophants to throw under the bus.
“Because we wanna get criminals out of our country, number one,” Trump replied. “And I don’t know when it was signed because I didn’t sign it. Other people handled it. But [Secretary of State] Marco Rubio’s done a great job and he wanted them out. And we go along with that. We want to get criminals out of our country.”
Emphasis mine.
He's not signing, reading or asking for a briefing on what's going out of the White House. Didn't think a Trump presidency could be more terrifying.
So his sycophants have convinced him to hand over the keys and let him play golf. I'm sure this will play out poorly.
He probably did sign the order. He's just too cowardly to admit it.
As with all good leaders, the buck stops... uh, over there somewhere.
Ah yes a true leader. Takes credit when he wants, not when he doesn't.
We need laws so that politicians who lie can face repercussions
He denied any association with project 2025 despite many members of his administration writing it. He also said ukraine started their war. He also says canada doing anything except becoming the 51st state is escalating the economic warfare canada started. He calls the trade deal he signed with Canada a terrible deal and asks who the hell signed it. He knows the internet has rotted our memories and attention spans and hes trying to rewrite history to his favour with that knowledge. The scary part is, it's working.
History teaches us that the biggest lies are the most believed.
Let's hope that any of his statements are being looked at critically by MAGA. The rest of us know he's a liar.
The Act itself requires a Presidential proclamation before the powers can be invoked.
That didn't happen.
And if it did, it wasn't that bad.
And if it was, that's not a big deal.
And if it is, that's not my fault. <--- We are here
And if it was, I didn't mean it.
And if I did, you deserved it.
And this is coming from the same guy who claims Biden's pardons are invalid because he used an auto pen instead of physically signing each one.
Every accusation is a confession
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