PREZ: KILL THE GUY
Orbanish ‘animal’ to gitmo, pronto Cuba bid seen as clearly illegal
IF I PRESIDENT Trump has his way, accused terrorist r Sayfullo Saipov’s punishment will be worse than ta trip to Gitmo: He’ll get the death penalty.
“NYC terrorist was happy as he asked to hang IS IS f flag in his hospital room. He killed 8 people, badly inj jured 12. SHOULD GET DEATH PENALTY!” the PP resident tweeted around 11:40 p.m. Wednesday.
It was just one of several combustible comments T Trump made the day after Saipov, 29, plowed a rente ed truck into a crowd of cyclists and pedestrians on a M Manhattan bike path, killing eight and injuring 13.
Earlier, in his first public remarks since Tuesday’s a attack, he lobbied for immigration reform, called the s suspect an “animal,” threatened to send him to G Gitmo and labeled the U.S. justice system “a laughings stock.”
Speaking ahead of a cabinet meeting at the White H House, Trump said, “We also have to come up with a p punishment that is far quicker and far greater than the p punishment these animals are getting right now .”
The U.S. needs “quick” and “strong” justice, he a added, “because what we have right now is a joke, a andit’s a laughingstock.”
But Trump, who once promised to fill up the c cells at Gitmo with “bad dudes,” has no legal basis f for shipping Saipov to the notorious detention c center in Cuba, according to Wells Dixon, a senior a attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights.
“If the President sends this man to Guantanam mo, then the President is an idiot,” Dixon told the D Daily News.
Congress’ Authorization for Use of Military F Force allows the President to use force against t those who “planned, authorized, committed, or a aided the terrorist attacks that occurred on Sept. 1 11, 2001, or harbored such organizations or pers sons.”
The military has been relying on a stretched int terpretation of the law to fight ISIS overseas, but d detaining someone from the U.S., citizen or not, who w was inspired or swore allegiance to the t terrorist group could present a new set of o legal challenges for Trump, Dixon said.
“It would be the first time that a court h has an opportunity to review whether this l law applies to ISIS,” he said. “The Center f for Constitutional Rights would go to c court and argue that the person is unlawf fully detained. It doesn’t apply to ISIS. If a c court rules that the (military authorizat tion) doesn’t apply, that will undermine all a actions against ISIS worldwide.”
Saipov is facing federal charges of prov viding material support to a terrorist group a and committing violence and destruction o of motor vehicles.
The Trump administration, meanwhile, w was clear that it sees Saipov as an enemy c combatant.
The designation would allow the terror s suspect to be held in military custody witho out access to a lawyer and his Miranda r rights would be waived.
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“Just spoke to President Macri of Argentina about the five proud and wonderful men killed in the West Side terror attack. God be with them!” he tweeted. Trump targeted Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), calling him out as a supporter of the nearly threedecade old law the ISIS-inspired attacker from Uzbekistan used to enter the country.
What Trump called the “Chuck Schumer beauty” is better known as the Immigration Act of 1990. It overwhelmingly passed both the House and Senate and was signed into law by President George H.W. Bush, a Republican. It makes 50,000 permanent resident visas available annually.
“Diversity lottery. Sounds nice. It’s not nice. It’s not good. It hasn’t been good. We’ve been againstit,” Trump said. “So wewant to immediately work with Congress on the Diversity LotteryProgram,onterminating it,gettingrid ofit.”
Schumer responded by invoking another commander-in-chief’s response to a terror attack that took place 16 years ago — and only a few blocks fromTuesday’s carnage. “President Trump, where is your leadership?” Schumer said. “The contrast between President (George W.) Bush’s actions after 9/11 and President Trump’s actions this morning could not be starker.” Gov.Cuomoagreed. “I am bothered by an attempt by anyone to try to politicize this situation,” he said. “That plays right into the hands of the terrorists. They are trying to disrupt. They are trying to create mayhem. They are trying to divide.”