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president Donald Trump is in his second term shortly before the end of his first 100 days. And the situation seems to be something more lawless than the first time. The first months of Trump’s second term were shaped by his government’s attempts to force their agenda to the country, even if this means to violate the basic principles of the nation.
The magazine published “Time” an interview to Trump, in which he spoke about his first 100 days. The president was not convinced that the United States are a country that is ruled by laws and not by men.
President Trump and the principle of the rule of law
The leading political correspondent of “Time”, Eric Cortellessa, and editor -in -chief Sam Jacobs interviewed the president who re -established the Oval Office. They noticed that Trump seemed to adapt it to the showy gold -plated accessories of his golf clubs and penthouses. And asked him about a portrait he added to John Adams.
Adams once said: “We are a government that is ruled by laws, not by humans,” the interviewers asked. “Do you agree?”
The role of John Adams’ legacy in the Trump-White House
Trump, who at first could not even remember where the painting belongs, was not so sure.
“We are a government that is ruled by laws, not by humans? Well, I think we are a government that is ruled by laws. But you know that someone has to enforce the law too,” he replied. “That is why people, of course men and women, certainly play a role. I would not agree 100 percent. We are a government in which men are involved in the legal process. And ideally there are honest men like me.”
Legislative gaps and power games: How Trump enforces his agenda
Honest men like Trump? Who are already looking for ways to bend laws to their advantage? At the beginning of the interview, Trump teased Timethat he knows nothing about the possibility of a third term. People therefore advised him. And he knows opportunities to achieve this. “There are some well -known loopholes that have been discussed. But I don’t believe in loopholes. I don’t believe in using loopholes,” said Trump. And added that he was ‘showered’ with inquiries to start a third term.
Trump’s handling of immigration law and powers of war
However, if Trump wants to say that he does not believe in the use of legislative gaps, the evidence against him is speaking. Especially in immigration issues. The president and his advisors have made great efforts to reinterpret centuries -old war powers such as the Alien Enemies Act. To carry out mass deportations without proper procedures for migrants. He has hundreds of men without legal proceedings or conviction in brutal Prison in El Salvador put. And yourself at every occasion over the federal courts.
The Kilmar Abrego Garcia case: disregard for supreme judges
When asked about the fall of Kilmar Abrego Garcia – a man from Maryland who wrongly was deported to the notorious Cecot prison in El Salvador and whose return to the United States the Trump government was “facilitated” by the Supreme Court-the president did not want to speak. He said opposite Timethat he is not responsible for complying with the orders of the court. Or make the decision to return from Abrego Garcia. “I leave that to my lawyers,” he said.
When he was further harassed, the president added that he had not asked the Salvadorian President Nayib Bukele to return Abrego Garcia. Because bukele ‘said he wouldn’t do it‘. And he repeated the false accusations that Abrego Garcia was a violent gait member of the MS-13.
Effects on American democracy
Trump then explained that he was still open to the possibility of deporting American citizens to foreign prisons. “I would like to do that if it were permissible. We are checking that. If I have a person, that would be extreme cases,” he said. “If you ask me if I would do this, I would do it. But only provided that it is legally permissible.”
Donald Trump holds the most powerful political office of the country and the world. John Adams may have said that the United States are a country of laws. But it may only need the work and the will of a single man to destroy her.