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Tanuki

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Sat Mar 22, 2025, 09:15 AM Mar 22

Dementia or flat-out lying? Or both? [View all]

Trump is now claiming that he didn't sign the executive order invoking the Alien Enemies Act and doesn't know who did, but it appears in the Federal Register with his signature.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/21/politics/trump-signature-alien-enemies-act-proclamation/index.html?iid=cnn_buildContentRecirc_end_recirc

"President Donald Trump on Friday downplayed his involvement in invoking the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to deport Venezuelan migrants, saying for the first time that he hadn’t signed the proclamation, even as he stood by his administration’s move.

“I don’t know when it was signed, because I didn’t sign it,” Trump told reporters before leaving the White House on Friday evening.
The president made his comments when asked to respond to Judge James Boasberg’s concerns in court on Friday that the proclamation was “signed in the dark” of night and that migrants were hurried onto planes.

“We want to get criminals out of our country, number one, and I don’t know when it was signed, because I didn’t sign it,” Trump said. “Other people handled it, but (Secretary of State) Marco Rubio has done a great job and he wanted them out and we go along with that. We want to get criminals out of our country.”

The proclamation invoking the Alien Enemies Act appears in the Federal Register with Trump’s signature at the bottom."...(more, including the White House's ludicrous walk-back, at link)

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A singular character defect that is the sumtotal of his entire being. Being stupid and in dementia ... marble falls Mar 22 #1
He could be telling the truth? He didn't sign the document. Irish_Dem Mar 22 #2
He definitely signed it. The White House later admitted as much Tanuki Mar 22 #4
We don't know if he signed it or not. Irish_Dem Mar 22 #7
Important clarification that Trump did not sign the original Act in 1798 Martin Eden Mar 22 #8
Trump and the WH lie all the time. Irish_Dem Mar 22 #19
If someone else is forging his name on 'executive orders,' Tanuki Mar 22 #20
So he/someone used an auto pen to sign it? mwmisses4289 Mar 22 #3
The Fartful Dodger (R - Felon) BoRaGard Mar 22 #5
So if he claims he didn't sign the executive order, then it must not be a legitimate order and all deportations LaMouffette Mar 22 #6
Both surfered Mar 22 #9
This one is a beauty: Baitball Blogger Mar 22 #10
Would press coverage be different if Biden had done that? Martin Eden Mar 22 #11
If Biden had done that they would have declared he was senile and the Baitball Blogger Mar 22 #12
The zone has been flooded with so much orange fecal matter Martin Eden Mar 22 #13
There would be howls for his resignation. Hope22 Mar 22 #15
Autopen? 2naSalit Mar 22 #14
His aides put paper in front of him, tell him a three-word synopsis, and he signs. surrealAmerican Mar 22 #16
How is this not a giant flashing red light over Washington, DC? Where are the... Ol Janx Spirit Mar 22 #17
If it is true what the convicted felon says, republianmushroom Mar 22 #18
Both, possibly sakabatou Mar 22 #21
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