In an in-depth interview with TIME magazine, former President Donald Trump laid out his agenda for a second term should he retake the White House in 2025 following the election later this year.
The wide-ranging interview, held over two days at President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago property in Palm Beach, Florida, with a follow-up phone interview, was the cover story for the magazine titled “If He Wins.”
The interview covers all of the big issues in the 2024 election, ranging from border security and immigration to economic policy, abortion, and foreign affairs.
President Trump also touched on the Jan. 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol breach and the related court cases, as well as the legal issues he faces.
Immigration, Border Policy
In a transcript of the interview with TIME’s national politics reporter Eric Cortellessa, President Trump said on day one of his second term he would take aggressive action over the illegal immigration crisis.
President Trump plans to initiate a vast deportation operation, citing unsustainable numbers of illegal immigrants, expressing a desire to replicate Dwight Eisenhower’s mid-20th century mass deportations.
President Trump said he plans to do this by using local law enforcement as well as the National Guard when necessary.
“When we talk military, generally speaking, I talk National Guard,” President Trump said, according to the transcript. “But if I thought things were getting out of control, I would have no problem using the military, per se. We have to have safety in our country. We have to have law and order in our country. And whichever gets us there, but I think the National Guard will do the job.”
Regarding housing illegal immigrants in detention facilities or even expanding the nation’s stock of detention facilities, he said it would likely not be necessary due to his policy of mass deportations but did not rule it out if needed.
If local police departments did not want to cooperate, President Trump said the best option to get them to comply would be to incentivize their cooperation.
“Well, there’s a possibility that some won’t want to participate, and they won’t partake in the riches, you know,” he said in the interview. “I want to give police immunity from prosecution because the liberal groups or the progressive groups … that … want to leave everybody in …[S]anctuary cities are failing all over the place, and I really believe that there’s a pent-up demand to end sanctuary cities by people that were in favor of sanctuary cities, because it’s just not working out for the country.”
He added he didn’t believe that his proposals were “bold” but rather “common sense” and that he would uphold any court decisions regarding his policies.
Jawohl, Herr Kommandant!
That’s my President.
You are an idiot, do you know what this guy said about cops? To give them full immunity from everything. That even means when they violate your rights, it would be impossible to do anything about it, ever more harder and imposable than currently. And we all know how hard it is to hold a cop accountable for laws they break and rights they violate. And he is for red flag laws that take your gun rights with no due process and you morons are begging for more tyranny. Especially you retard gun owners.
Why do you morons even fight for your gun rights then when trump can and said he would just wipe that out with full cop immunity and red flag laws? You people get more stupid by the second.