President Donald Trump told reporters March 21st evening that he did not sign the controversial proclamation invoking the Alien Enemies Act to quickly deport migrants his administration says are violent gang members from Venezuela.
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The US president is a liar.
U.S. President Donald Trump is among the most powerful men on earth.
However, when such a public figure does not hesitate to lie, the entire world must ask itself this question:
hypocritical attitude
Trump said he didn’t sign controversial proclamation. The Federal Register shows one with his signature
Trump’s signature appears on the digital image of the proclamation available for viewing with the Federal Register, the government repository of official documents. And White House Communications Director Steven Cheung said late Friday that Trump did personally sign the proclamation. It is 100% clear that Donald Trump lied. His signature betrayed him.
The administration said in court records that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement investigated each migrant sent to El Salvador to verify their ties to the Tren de Aragua gang. Robert Cena, an acting ICE field director, wrote in a court filing that those efforts can include reviewing surveillance data, testimonies from victims or an admission of membership by the accused. He acknowledged that «many» of those deported under the act do not have criminal records in the U.S., but that “does not indicate they pose a limited threat.» The confusion over Trump’s signature prompted some speculation that perhaps the document was signed using an autopen, a machine that uses real ink to duplicate a human signature. The Justice Department has said the autopen is a legal way to sign official presidential documents, but Trump has ridiculed the practice as inauthentic.
Trump’s comment last Friday March
21st was in
response to questions about a hearing earlier that day on the
legality of the deportations, during which U.S. District Judge
James E. Boasberg asked why the proclamation was «essentially
signed in the dark» so that deportation flights could begin
immediately. The White House had announced
the proclamation’s signing after preparations to deport 137
Venezuelan migrants had already begun. Asked on Friday if he would
authorize flights that night despite the court order to halt
them, the president deflected and suggested that it would be up
to Rubio.
The State Department did not respond to requests for comment. Rubio has had a prominent role in
the deportations, having visited El Salvador on his first trip
abroad and laying the groundwork for the country to house
Venezuelan migrants. The past week, he held multiple calls with
El Salvador’s president, Nayib Bukele, orchestrating the forced
transfer of suspected gang members out of the United States. And
last month, he also
formally designated Tren de Aragua as a foreign terrorist
organization. Michael Kozak, a top State Department official, said in a court filing the past weekend that high-ranking U.S. officials — including Rubio — had been engaged in “intensive and delicate negotiations” in recent weeks with El Salvador and Venezuela to deport the gang members. In a statement the past weekend, Rubio hailed Trump’s decision-making.
That inconsistency, which the White House disputes, was noted several times on many networks.
One person who was deported came to the U.S. legally. His lawyer said the reason for his deportation was the mistaken interpretation of a soccer-related tattoo. Collins relayed a White House statement claiming that Trump was «obviously«referring to the original 1798 Alien Enemies Act as the document he didn’t sign.
Trump’s distancing himself from the proclamation, which is in the federal register, shows the tue Trump's character. He said he didn’t sign it.... But his signature is in the federal register. And that is where all of these executive orders that the president signs go. The White House talked about that openly. https://www.facebook.com/share/r/162bHjZqVr/
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Trump often signs documents in
public, showcasing his signature on them, but the invocation of
the Alien Enemies Act was not among them. The Federal Register
adds a digital signature to the official documents when posting
them online, while the original document is typically provided
to the National Archives.
Earlier in the day, Trump also said
that it was up to Rubio and that his secretary of state “has a
lot of big decisions to make” in the wake of the judge’s ruling.
So if the president Donald Trump claimed that he «didn’t sign»