Trump on Afghan Refugees: “So Many Bad Ones Came In On The Planes,” “The Strongest” People “Swamped The Planes”
At a Thanksgiving press conference at Mar-a-Lago, President Donald Trump addressed the Afghanistan illegal immigrant accused of killing one National Guard member and critically injuring another.
JEFF MASON, REUTERS: And you said you’ve made changes for Afghanis’ ability to apply for asylum. Do you blame all Afghans for this one man’s mis– not mistake, but his heinous actions? PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: No, but we’ve had a lot of problems with Afghans because they had a lot of them coming in on these planes. Again, I show you this picture. We had a lot of them coming in on this, these planes that are, look at them. There was no checking. They just poured into the plane. And Many of these people are criminals. Many of these people are people that shouldn’t be here. And many of them have been gotten out. I mean, we’ve gotten out some, a lot of the people that, you know, we’ve taken a lot of them out of here. But they came in — REPORTER: But many, but they came in legally, right? TRUMP: Yeah, I know this deal– story. Many are wonderful. REPORTER: Yeah, I said many are here legally, though. What should they think in terms of their possible future: TRUMP: Well, they can’t be happy, okay? They can’t be happy. Because what’s taking place between that, if you look at Somalia, they’re taking over Minnesota. And they are, we got a lot of problems with the gangs, with all of the things taking place in Minnesota. We have an incompetent governor, a dope, we have a dope governor. They can’t be happy about what’s going on. And if you talk about the Afghans, you know, there’s a problem because so many bad ones came in on the planes, they just walked on. Whoever the strongest people were, physically in a way. But whoever the strongest, they got on the planes, there was no checking. They just swamped the planes, they took off. We had no idea who they were. Yeah, do you want to ask a question behind? REPORTER: Me? TRUMP: Hi. REPORTER: Sir, what do the Somalians have to do with this Afghan guy who shot the national? TRUMP: Nothing, but Somalians have caused a lot of trouble. They’re ripping us off for a lot of money. There’s a tremendous amount of money going back to Somalia. What the hell are we paying money to Somalia for? But they’re ripping off our country at a level that few people have been able to see before. That’s about the only thing you talk about competence. We have Ilhan Omar, who does nothing but complain about our country and our Constitution. And she comes from a country with practically it’s practically no country. It’s devastated. It’s crime ridden. It’s a mess. It’s a disgrace. And we took their people, tremendously. We’re not taking their people anymore. We’re not taking their people and we’re getting a lot of their people out because they’re nothing but trouble. OK, thank you very much, everybody. REPORTER: I have a question about this asylum claim that is being floated. Of course, you just detailed that this suspect was flown under the Biden administration, but was he granted asylum under your administration? TRUMP: When it comes to asylum when they’re flown in, it’s very hard to get them out. No matter how you want to do. It is very hard to get him out, but we’re going to be getting them all out now. Thank you very much.
