Trump proposed sending migrants to Guantnamo, claims book by anonymous author
Source: The Guardian
Donald Trump proposed designating all migrants entering the US without permission as enemy combatants and shipping them to Guantánamo Bay to be detained alongside hardened terrorism suspects, according to a new book written by an anonymous author described as a senior official in the Trump administration.
Among the many incendiary details contained in A Warning, a behind-the-scenes account of the White House under Trump, is the revelation that the president floated the idea of changing the legal designation of migrants as a way of forcibly keeping them out of the country. The change would effectively have condemned all undocumented migrants to the same legal treatment as the al-Qaida architects of 9/11.
The author of A Warning shot to public notice in September 2018, when he or she wrote an article in the New York Times. The column presented its author as part of an internal resistance to Trump, trying to frustrate his most extreme ambitions.
In the new book, which the Guardian obtained in advance of publication next week, Anonymous puts flesh on the bones of some such harebrained schemes. The migrant plan, the author writes, stemmed from Trumps unfounded conviction that unlawful migration across the border with Mexico was the biggest crisis in American history.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/nov/13/trump-proposed-sending-undocumented-migrants-to-guantanamo-anonymous-book-claims
dewsgirl
(14,961 posts)I'm running out of words to express, how truly awful everything is.😭
SummerSnow
(12,608 posts)dewsgirl
(14,961 posts)William Weehours
(59 posts)Plus whichever Democrat ran against him in the general.
PatSeg
(47,770 posts)almost every day. We may need to invent new words to describe what we're witnessing. The existing ones seem so unsatisfactory.
dewsgirl
(14,961 posts)bucolic_frolic
(43,511 posts)pushing him out of office because he's crazy may still be a viable option. Election 2020 may yet awaken enough Republicans from their kompromized slumber.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)Bayard
(22,240 posts)Shows how desperate they are to hang on to power. tRump was stunned that he won in 2016, per reports. Now, that he's seen how lucrative and ego-satisfying it is to turn the office into his biggest money-making machine, this is getting really serious.
Its good versus evil. We never dreamed we'd get to the point we are now. How much further will it go?
ScratchCat
(2,022 posts)The funny thing? They see it that way too!! That's why they voted for Trump. People who think that they are inherently "the good guys" and everybody else is "the bad guys" can't be reasoned with. That's how we got to the point we are now - 25+ years of right wing radio nonsense and Fox News
LeftInTX
(25,812 posts)(I swear Reagan did too)