Donald Trump claims the US is ‘entitled’ to deport people without a trial

Another day, another bold Donald Trump claim.

Just a week after his administration was accused of ‘willfully disobeying’ the constitution, the president now claims he is ‘entitled’ to deport people without a fair trial.

The Trump administration’s violation of direct orders to turn around planes carrying deportees to El Salvador was ignored, US District Judge James E Boasberg said.

A judge presiding over the case of a Maryland man deported to El Salvador, without being given a hearing, gained international attention.

But this week, when asked by a reporter if he was pleased with the rate of deportations, Trump said: ‘You can’t have a trial for all of these people.

‘Look, we are getting some very bad people, killers, murderers, drug dealers, really bad people, the mentally ill, the mentally insane, they emptied out insane asylums into our country, we’re getting them out.

‘And a judge can’t say: ‘No, you have to have a trial,’” Trump claimed.

‘No, we are going to have a very dangerous country if we are not allowed to do what we are entitled to do.’

In America, every person is given the right to a fair trial, according to the Constitution.

This applies to US citizens and anyone on a visa, or in America illegally.

But Trump’s latest statement about being ‘entitled’ to deport anyone without a fair trial is creating a ‘highly authoritarian’ America, Historian and propaganda analyst Ian Garner told Metro.

‘What Trump is doing here is creating something that is highly authoritarian – that is, a judicial system that functions only on a performative level,’ he said.

‘Look at the show trials of the 1930s for examples of that sort of behaviour. But there is a strange sense here in which I think Trump is creating this world in which the law doesn’t matter at all. And in traditional authoritarian countries, the judicial system exists purely to perform something.’

He added: ‘Trump is saying, “Well, we can’t do that.” And so you have this strange contradiction between traditional authoritarianism, which has a very strong state and a strong judicial system, albeit corrupted.’

But Mr Garner said Trump’s ‘strange contradiction’ will lead Trump and his supporters to ask a difficult question – ‘What is the point of a government at all if it can’t perform basic functions like a fair trial?’

Shortly after re-entering office, Trump invoked a 1798 wartime law over what he claimed was an invasion by the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua.

But there were already planes in the air heading to El Salvador when a judge ordered the aircraft to be returned to the United States.

But hours later, El Salvador’s president, Nayib Bukele, announced that the deportees had arrived in his country – and the planes have continued to deport alleged criminals, without their right to a fair trial.

The Trump administration has said they did not violate any orders, noted the judge did not include the turnaround directive in his written order and said the planes had already left the US by the time that order came down.

The Supreme Court earlier this month said those facing deportation must be given a chance to fight their removals before they are deported.

And earlier today, a world leader revealed the nickname he has for Donald Trump after his visa was ‘revoked’.