Trump’s “negotiation” comments

Trump’s “negotiation” comments

by digby

So everyone is all a-dither that Trump made some remarks to the New York Times editorial board on background that indicate he thinks the deportation of all the undocumented workers in America might be a chip in a “negotiation” as president. But as someone pointed out to me on email, this isn’t a secret. He said it on the record to Byron York just days after the NY Times interview in January:

So I look at deporting all illegal immigrants. I look at a temporary ban of Muslims coming to the United States. They get a lot of attention. Are they opening positions in a negotiation?

I’m not saying there can’t be some give and take, but at some point we have to look at these things. You look at the radical Islamic terrorism and you look at what’s going on, we have to take a serious look. There’s tremendous hatred. You look at illegal immigration and all that’s taking place with respect to illegal immigration, whether it’s the crime or the economy, I mean, it affects many different elements. It doesn’t mean I’m hard and fast 100 percent, but we to get a lot of what I’m asking for, or we’re not going to have a country any more.

So they are opening positions?

They are very strong positions. It doesn’t mean you’re not going to negotiate a little bit, but I guess there will always be some negotiation. But they are very strong positions, and I would adhere to those positions very strongly. That doesn’t mean that at some point we won’t talk a little bit about some negotiation. Who wouldn’t do that?

This is how he talks. It’s gibberish.

I have no idea what he “really” plans to do about undocumented immigrants. But I do know that he says they’re rapists and criminal and that he’s going to deport them all and build a wall — and that his crowds cheer ecstatically whenever he says it. The hatred he is pimping says everything you need to know.

And, by the way, there is no guarantee that he won’t do any of this stuff. Cops love this guy. And he’d be in charge of the federal police apparatus of the United States of America.

Trust him?