Trump Says He’d Consider Arresting Biden’s Homeland Security Secretary: ‘I’d Take a Look at That’
President Donald Trump said he is open to looking into investigating and possibly arresting former Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.
At a Tuesday press conference in Florida after a tour of a migrant detention center being called “Alligator Alcatraz,” Trump held a press conference alongside Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) and current Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem. The president was asked about people calling for the arrest of Mayorkas over his handling of the southern border under former President Joe Biden.
“I ran into former DHS Secretary Mayorkas and I asked him a couple questions about his disastrous handling of the border. He didn’t like my questions, but the number one question that I heard from people responding to my video was, ‘Why hasn’t he been arrested yet?'” The Blaze’s Julio Rosas asked the president at Tuesday’s presser.
Trump blasted Biden for the last-minute pardons he handed out before leaving office. The president was unaware of whether Mayorkas received a Biden pardon. He did not.
“Was he given a pardon, Mayokas? Was he not?” Trump asked.
“I don’t believe so,” Rosas said.
“Well, I’d take a look at that one because what he did is it’s beyond incompetence. Something had to be done. Now, with that being said, he took orders from other people, and he was really doing the orders. And you could say he was very loyal to them because it must have been very hard for him to stand up and sit up and, you know, talk about what he allowed to happen to this country and be serious about it. So he was given orders. If he wasn’t given a pardon, I could see looking at that,” Trump said.
The president was then informed that the House of Representatives voted to impeach Mayorkas, though the effort never made it anywhere in the Senate. The vote in the House to impeach Mayorkas was over “willful and systemic refusal to comply with” immigration laws.
“He was impeached, but yeah, it was just a fake impeachment. It was a fake impeachment. But why don’t you take a look at it? I think he was so bad. They were all so bad, look, it was the worst president in the history of our country,” Trump said.
Watch above via CSPAN.
