'I Want Some Detail!' ABC's Raddatz Grills Trump Ally On Specific Plans For Military At Border [View all]

Source: MEDIAite

Dec 8th, 2024, 11:57 am


ABC News anchor Martha Raddatz pressed Trump ally Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL), repeatedly demanding “details” on President-elect Donald Trump’s plan to use the military at the border.

Trump and his team have made clear that carrying out mass deportations will be a top priority when he assumes office in January.

On Sunday’s edition of ABC’s This Week, Raddatz grilled Donalds on the plan, and confronted him over the cost of mass deportations:

RADDATZ: Well, let’s talk about how he’s going to do it. He says he’s going to declare a national emergency and use military assets to execute his mass deportation plan. What does that look like?

DONALDS: Well, first and foremost, we’ve been very clear throughout the entire campaign that the first order of business is going to be removing, repatriating these criminal illegal aliens almost to the tune of a million of them back to their home countries. That is step one. Step two, we already talked about making sure that our borders whether it’s at —

(CROSSTALK)

RADDATZ: But how do you do that? I want some detail there.

DONALDS: Or in — or in the illegal points that they’re not allowed to come through. Say that again? I’m sorry.

RADDATZ: Give me some detail there. How are they going to do this? What’s the military going to do?

DONALDS: Well, first of all, when you’re talking about military assets being used, that’s only in a — in an extreme last resort.