Trump: I Was Elected To Get Criminals and Murderers Out Of This Country, It Was #1 Factor

 President Donald Trump at an Oval Office press availability with Italian PM Giorgia Meloni.

QUESTION: Mr. President, yesterday, Judge Boasberg, in a case against your administration, said the Constitution does not tolerate willful disobedience of judicial order. Do you agree with that statement?

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Well, you're going to have to speak to the lawyers. We have great lawyers.

I can tell you this, we're doing a fantastic job of getting criminals out of this country who Biden allowed into the country. Hundreds of thousands of criminals, murderers and drug dealers. And I was elected because of the fact, I would say maybe that was the number one factor, a lot of reasons, the economy, a lot of things.

But one of the primary reasons I was elected is because I said, I'm going to get the criminals that he allowed to come into our country so stupidly through open borders. I'm going to get them out. And I got a lot of votes, record-setting numbers of votes, as you know.

We won everything, the popular vote, all seven swing states, we won everything. And that's what the public wanted. That's what I'm doing.

But you'll have to speak to the lawyers because it's up to them.

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