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May 5, 2025 - The David Knight Show
15:46
Trump “Follow the Constitution” Comment: The Problem is NOT What Media Says
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Well, let's talk a little bit about the Constitution.
And I think that there are some issues with this, but I don't think that they're the issues that people are actually saying.
You know, the headline was, well, Trump says he's not sure if he has to support the Constitution.
That's not what he's saying, but I'll play you the clip and then we'll say what he's really saying, which is also troubling, actually.
Your Secretary of State says everyone who's here, citizens and non-citizens, deserve due process.
Do you agree, Mr. President?
I don't know.
I'm not a lawyer.
I don't know.
Well, the Fifth Amendment...
I don't know.
It might say that, but if you're talking about that, then we'd have to have a million or two million or three million trials.
We have thousands of people that are some murderers and some drug dealers and some of the worst people on Earth.
Some of the worst, most dangerous people on Earth.
And I was elected to get them the hell out of here, and the courts are holding me from doing it.
But even given those numbers that you're talking about, Don't you need to uphold the Constitution of the United States as president?
I don't know.
I have to respond by saying again, I have brilliant lawyers that work for me, and they are going to obviously follow what the Supreme Court said.
What you said is not what I heard the Supreme Court said.
They have a different interpretation.
Is anyone in your administration right now in contact with El Salvador about returning?
I don't know.
You'd have to ask the Attorney General that question.
All right, so that's the full context.
And you can see that when they say, Trump says, I don't know.
This is the headline, NPR.
Does the President need to uphold the Constitution?
Trump says, I don't know.
Well, that's not what you just heard there.
The context of what he's saying is that we've got millions of people here, so we can't do due process.
And then he pivots to not just the millions of people who are here, but the people who are gang members and so forth.
And we can't do due process with anybody that is here, which is what he's saying.
Now, I really don't know how you solved this problem.
I think that even if you've got millions of people here, you should give them...
Some kind of due process, some kind of review, and I think that that could be done, especially when you look at how much money the government is spending on wars and on other non-productive stuff.
Maybe you could rapidly expand this and set up review boards and things like that to expedite this stuff.
Yeah, it would take a very long time.
The bottom line is what he was not saying is that he doesn't have to follow the Constitution.
I know that Trump doesn't think that he has to follow the Constitution, but that wasn't what was being said in the context of this stuff.
And so he was saying that what he was saying awkwardly in Trump-speak was, well, I don't know if that is going to be, if that is the law, if that is the Constitution.
And so that's the real crux of the issue, that they're not focusing on.
Instead, they're going to go with something very simplistic.
Trump said he doesn't have to follow the Constitution, or he doesn't know if he has to follow the Constitution.
No, the real issue is, do people who are foreign citizens get rights and due process and things like that?
Are their human rights going to be respected when they're in the United States?
I think that's the right way to phrase the question here.
Because, as I said, I saw this one person responded when I talked about this Garcia thing, which I thought was the way the Trump people represented this thing.
When they said that he was mistakenly deported, well, if he was mistakenly deported, it's real simple.
You bring him back and you give him some due process.
But then they doubled down.
They did ad hominem attacks.
They photoshopped a picture, put MS-13 on his knuckles, and Trump thought that was genuine and all the rest of the stuff.
I think that there's other evidence that he was involved in cartels, as I said.
You know, the trafficking that was going on there in Tennessee.
He got caught with eight other people in his car.
None of whom had luggage or money and speak English and all the rest of this stuff.
And the car itself belonged to somebody who had been convicted with due process of trafficking.
And yet the Tennessee Highway Patrol let him go because the FBI said, we've got jurisdiction here under Biden.
They said, we have jurisdiction here and we want you to let him go.
So Biden ought to be investigated.
The people in the FBI who did that ought to be investigated.
But that's not happening.
But again, the question is, you know, one of rights and of privileges.
And so she pressed him on whether he needed to abide by the Constitution and the rights that it provides to people in the United States.
He said, I don't know.
I don't know if foreign citizens have rights if they're in the United States.
And so...
That is the real issue.
And there was an opinion piece on Politico that said visa applicants don't have First Amendment rights.
Well, I think this is the issue.
And when we look at it, regardless of whether you think that should be the case, and like I said, one person said, well, are we going to talk about rights for non-citizens now?
Well, then that's going to be a hard pass.
I'm not interested in listening to this program anymore.
So, let me just ask you this.
Do rights come from God, or do they come from government?
Of course, if a government tells you you can do something, that's a privilege that's been granted by government.
Rights come from God.
Why?
Well, in the American system, the foundation of the American system, what it was based on, was defined in the Declaration of Independence.
It was a declaration about the fact that we were all endowed by our Creator with certain inalienable rights.
And that among these, among these, the rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, and so forth, but that's not all of them, right?
And so the whole context, again, they take Trump's comments out of context.
But let's understand when we talk about rights where the real context is.
The real context is the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights.
The Bill of Rights does not grant anybody any...
What it does is it recognizes our God-given rights, and it prohibits government from interfering with those God-given rights.
Who does God give the rights to?
Human beings.
Does that mean that you, as a human being, don't have any rights if you're not an American citizen?
No, now what we're talking about is government-granted privileges again, because the government's going to define who a citizen is.
God defines who a person is.
And we have seen this reflected in our law when we talk about FISA, for example.
When, you know, from their inception, again, the CIA and the NSA and intelligence agencies were violating the Constitution and the requirement to get a search warrant if you're going to spy on people.
They were doing it from their inception.
They were spying on Americans.
Church Committee hearings about the CIA and the NSA hearings that were conducted in Congress at the time.
And out of that came the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, which said that you will not listen to, you will not spy on Americans without getting a search warrant.
You will also not spy, and that's domestically and foreign.
Foreign citizens in America.
That's the key.
You'll not surveil foreign citizens in America without a search warrant.
But you can surveil foreign citizens in foreign areas without a search warrant, but not a foreign citizen in America.
Why did they do it that way?
Now, you can disagree with them, but I think that was wise because I think that we want human beings who are within the jurisdiction of the American government to be treated as human beings.
You know, we talk about human rights and foreign countries and all the rest of this kind of stuff all the time, right?
Why is that important?
Because if you have a government that decides that it doesn't have to give human rights to a certain class of humans, then, you know, first they came for the op-ed writers, right?
As the op-ed piece went by James Bovard.
First they came for the op-ed writers, and they came for everybody else.
You don't want to go down that path where the American government, It's free to violate human rights in America.
Because human rights are defined by you being a human, not by your legal status by the U.S. government.
That's my opinion.
That's reflected in the FISA legislation by the Congress 50 years ago.
And the Supreme Court may have a different take on it.
And if they do, I disagree with that take.
And I do think that foreign citizens have human rights in America.
And I don't want to live in an America where they don't have human rights because that's going to be an America that takes away my human rights and they're pretty hard-pressed to do that right now.
We've got a foreign government that wants to take away our human rights to free speech in America.
The Israeli government wants and is paying the American government to take away our rights of free speech.
You really want that?
Now, on the other hand, The question is, is entry into the United States, is that a privilege?
Well, I think it is.
I think it is.
I think it is a privilege, and that can be controlled by the government, and I think that that is a real, you know, the real basis for this, I think, is the fact that, you know, when we look at the Bible, God has appointed nations, tongues, and tribes.
You know, the nations of the borders.
Tongues are languages.
Tribes are the cultures and so forth.
But God has appointed that.
God has appointed those places.
God has appointed those times that certain countries will exist.
America may not always exist.
You know, institutions, countries come and go.
God has appointed their places and times.
He's also appointed their boundaries.
And part of their power is to decide who can be in their country and who may not be in their country.
So I think it's a perfectly legitimate thing to say that That is a privilege that is granted to come into the country.
And so it also means that they can be removed.
The question then is how?
How?
Are we going to throw out the basic rules that respect humanity, that respect human rights, that recognize the freedom and dignity of people who have been created in the image of God?
Are we going to throw that away for the expediency of getting out the people that have been flooded into this country by By Joe Biden.
You know, there's a lot of talk about people who have self-deported.
And I think one of the things that they could do without doing due process, without going through a lengthy process and hearings of millions of people that have come into this country illegally, one of the key things that you do is you get rid of the welfare magnet.
And you kill a couple of birds with one stone because, folks, welfare is not a right.
Even though the left says that it is.
It is not a right.
You do not have a right to be supported at the expense of somebody else.
And that is a Christian principle as well.
If they will not work, they will not eat.
Get them working.
You know, that's one of the things that the pilgrims learned.
When they decided they were going to set up a system of communism, then they realized, hey, that doesn't work.
Let's give everybody a plot of land, and they will eat what they grow.
And if they don't grow anything, if they don't work, they won't eat.
It's just that simple.
And so, yeah, I think that we have a system, you know, understand that welfare is not guaranteed to anybody.
And that's why I talk about getting rid of the welfare magnet.
You know, immigration and crossings and everything have basically come to a stop.
Because Trump is militarizing the border, militarizing our society.
Now, that's one way to do it.
Do we want to live in that kind of country?
Or would it be better to have a situation where you say, well, guess what?
If you come into this country, you are not going to get any welfare benefits.
You will never get any welfare benefits.
As a matter of fact, when we identify you, we will financially penalize you or other things like that.
There's things like that that they could do to financially disincentivize illegal immigration.
And they could take that welfare magnet that is drawing people into this country under the wall, over the wall, through the wall, Around the wall, and instead they could turn that magnet around and use the other pole and repulse them with economics.
You don't have to set up a dictatorship to do this.
And you need to not get rid of human rights.
What you need to do is get rid of the idea that welfare is a right.
And of course, this is all the Cloward and Piven stuff.
Democrats, an economic study by a couple of people named Cloward and Piven, saying that we had hoped that Welfare would collapse our society and get everybody dependent on government.
Unfortunately, that hasn't happened to a significant degree with Americans, and so we need to accelerate this.
So let's offer welfare to everybody outside of the United States.
And if we do that and draw these people in, then it'll collapse the system here.
So let's understand what they're trying to do, and let's respond to that particular issue.
And let's also get past the idea that welfare is a right.
It is not a right.
But people in power will make two mistakes rather than admit to one.
And that is what we're seeing over and over again.
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