Fox’s Peter Doocy Draws Stunning Claims From Trump Over ‘Gang Member’ Flights During Press Scrum

Fox News Senior White House correspondent Peter Doocy drew a pair of stunning claims from President Donald Trump about the migrant flights that were ordered to a halt last week.

Last weekend, the White House announced that Trump signed what the White House described as a “Proclamation Invoking the Alien Enemies Act regarding the Invasion of the United States by the Foreign Terrorist Organization Tren De Aragua,” which was used as the rationale for deportation flights that were halted by federal District Court Judge James Boasberg.

This was just days before Trump baselessly raged on social media that President Joe Biden’s pardons are “VOID” by claiming they were signed by “autopen” without Biden’s knowledge.

Trump spoke to reporters on the South Lawn as he departed the White House on Friday, and among Doocy’s questions was an exchange in which Trump claimed he didn’t sign the proclamation himself, and that he’s “not really involved with” the deportation flights:

PETER DOOCY: It doesn’t sound like this judge who the DOJ is arguing with today about the deportation flights. He wants to know why the proclamation was “signed in the dark,” his words, and why people were “rushed onto planes.”

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Because we want to get criminals out of our country, number one.

And I don’t know when it was signed because I didn’t sign it. Other people handled it.

But Marco Rubio has done a great job, and he wanted ’em out and we go along with that. We want to get criminals out of our country

PETER DOOCY: If there was a flight like tonight with these guys, even though it’s still being litigated, if there was a flight tonight full of accused gang members and somebody called and said, “Mr. President, I know that this is still being adjudicated, but we can get these guys down to El Salvador right now,” would you say that that’s okay?

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: I would say that I’d have the Secretary of State handle it, because I’m not really involved in that.

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