After downplaying the global crisis trump’s executive order caused by claiming that only “109 were temporarily inconvenienced for the safety of us all”, here’s how White House press secretary Sean Spicer defended the detention of five-year old Jalali. Trump has insisted the travel restrictions are critical to preventing terrorist attacks, though no immigrant from any of those countries has committed a fatal act of terror on US soil.
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“If somebody has a problem with that agenda, that does call into question whether they should continue in that post or not”, Spicer said.
He said the US should be grateful to Iraq because of its “sacrifices in fighting terrorism”, but that “the way the order was issued was not good, and I don’t want to cause the same offense to the American people”. Meanwhile, all new visa issuances to travelers in those countries were temporarily suspended to allow time to review USA immigration vetting procedures, CNN reported.
Acting State Department spokesman Mark Toner said Monday the agency is aware of a memo on the executive order circulating on a dissent channel.
During Tuesday’s briefing, White House press secretary Sean Spicer was pressed by a reporter to call the executive order a travel “ban”, as President Donald Trump had in a tweet.
“Ultimately, we fear this executive order will become a self-inflicted wound in the fight against terrorism”, Graham and McCain said, earning a pair of scolding tweets from the president.
“With all due respect, you have been part of the confusion”, he said, adding that Kelly himself has now said he was briefed in advance.
“We knew it was coming”.
SEAN SPICER: The American people support what the president’s doing. He used printouts of front page stories published the day after Trump’s inauguration and said newspapers broke tradition by qualifying and analyzing Trump’s speech, which they didn’t do for Bush or President Barack Obama.
Spicer repeatedly told other reporters who were interjecting, such as Glenn Thrush, to “be polite” and “hold on”.
Hours later, during the daily White House press briefing, Spicer blamed the media for all the immigration uncertainty.
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Yet, on Sunday, President Donald Trump kept asserting that the immigration ban was not, in fact, a “Muslim ban, as the media is falsely reporting”.
