Trump Gets Exposed (Again) As Having No Idea What He’s Talking About Regarding Immigration
During a stand-up interview with CNN anchor Anderson Cooper this evening, Republican candidate Donald Trump proved yet again in a one-on-one setting that he is effectively clueless when it comes to his own ambitions of dealing with immigration.
The hot button topic has been deeply cemented into the bedrock of his campaign since day one, and he has offered an astonishingly excellent plethora of promises on the issue, including a “very humane” deportation force that would forcibly remove the nation’s eleven million undocumented immigrants. Regardless of the stunning impossibility of this task, Trump has stuck to it, quadrupling down on even the most outlandish of his claims.
That is, until this week, when the much-touted “softening” of these policies began to take shape (coincidentally as his poll numbers continue to struggle). Thursday night he waffled when Cooper pressed about the specifics, opting at times to repeat stuff about his wall, the border, and kicking the bad guys out.
Cooper opened with:
One of the big things you talked about during the primaries, you had interviews about this, you talked about it during the debates, eleven million undocumented immigrants in this country: they gotta go. They good ones can come back in you said. They’ll be a door in the wall, the good ones can come back in. It’s gonna be done humanely, you said. There’s gonna be a deportation force. That no longer — it seems, there’s been some contradictory statement lately, but is that your policy?
What followed was a bigly weak response. “I don’t know, let me just tell you what my policy is,” Trump offered. “We’re gonna build a great wall. The wall is going to be paid for by Mexico. People are not going to be able to tunnel because we’re gonna have tunnel technology.”
Got that? Tunnel technology.
Cooper attempted to clarify specifics; he didn’t get many.
“All of the bad dudes… they’re out. They’re out. The police know who they are,” said the GOP standard-bearer. “We know the bad ones… those people are gone.” It went back-and-forth like this for several minutes; if Trump was pressed with a question he clearly didn’t know the answer to, he would respond, “We’re going to see what happens once we straighten up our border.”
Watch the above interview via CNN.
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J.D. Durkin (@jiveDurkey) is an editorial producer and columnist at Mediaite.
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