The ex-president Donald Trump He does not usually give in-depth interviews to a written media. He has always preferred the immediacy of television, a scenario that he handles very well and where he can avoid complex definitions with gestures or with complaints of fake news.
When there are just a few months left until the November presidential election and when polls show him tied with Democrat Joe Biden, the magazine Time interviewed him twice and spoke with more than a dozen of his closest advisors and confidants to try to reveal What a second Trump presidency would be like.
In the interview, conducted by Eric Cortellessa at the Mar-a-Lago mansion in Florida, Trump, 77, talks about all the issues and outlines the general guidelines of a possible mandate, which the journalist describes as “imperial” and that “would reshape the United States and its role in the world.”
As one of his central axes of his return to the White House, Trump says he will carry out a mass deportation to expel more than 11 million immigrants from the country (the magnate spoke of 20 million, but it is estimated that there are 11 million undocumented people).
He said he would be willing to build migrant detention camps and that he would even deploy the US army on the border and in the interior of the country to achieve his objective. “We have no choice,” Trump said. “I don’t think this is sustainable for a country… Twenty million people, many of them from prisons, many of them from mental institutions.”
“It is incredible that they have allowed so many people to enter our country, especially considering that they were not controlled or investigated, most of them. They are just arriving. They are reaching levels that no country has seen before. “It is an invasion of our country,” she added.
“We will use the local police. And we will start with the criminals who are entering. And they are arriving in numbers we have never seen before. And we will have a new category of crime, immigration crime,” she said.
Abortion and other issues
He also noted that he will allow more conservative states to monitor women’s pregnancies and prosecute those who violate abortion bans.
He also said he is willing to fire a federal prosecutor who does not comply with his order to prosecute someone, breaking the traditional division of powers.
In another issue that he has already been announcing in his campaign, he said that he will evaluate pardons for all his supporters who were accused of attacking the Capitol on January 6, 2021, nearly 800 of whom have pleaded guilty or have been convicted by a jury. .
“If someone was evil and evil, I would see it differently. But many of those people came in, many of those people were introduced. You see it in the videos, the police are introducing them. They walk with the police,” she said.
Furthermore, as summarized by the author of the note, Trump would deploy the National Guard in American cities as he sees fit, he would close the White House pandemic preparedness office and infuse his government with his supporters who support his false claim that the 2020 election was stolen.
“A second presidency would concentrate power in the hands of a man whose appetite for power seems insatiable,” the author said. One of the mogul’s closest aides, Kellyanne Conway, said: “I don’t think it’s much of a mystery what his agenda would be,” she said. “But I think people will be surprised at how quickly he will act,” she added.
The economy
Regarding the economy, Trump indicated that they will impose a 10% tariff on all imports and another of more than 60% on Chinese imports. “It could be more than that,” she risks. “I call it a ring around the country,” she said.
When it is pointed out that tariff increases could cause inflation, Trump says, “I don’t think it will cause inflation. “I think it will avoid losses for our country.”
Asked if he would withdraw US aid to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for the Gaza offensiveTrump evaded the answer several times, saying that none of what is happening now would have happened if he had been in the White House.
However, when asked if he would be on the Israeli side if Iran attacked that country, he said: “I have been very loyal to Israel, more loyal than any other president. I have done more for Israel than any other president. Yes, I will protect Israel.”
Regarding a definitive solution to the conflict in the Middle East, he said: “I am no longer sure that a two-state solution is going to work.”
The journalist consulted him about what the magnate had said months ago, that he was willing to let Russia “do whatever it wants” to NATO countries that do not spend enough on their defense.
–If Putin attacked a NATO state that you believe is not spending enough on its defense, would the United States come to that country’s aid? asked.
“Yes, when I said that, I said it with great meaning, because I want them to pay. I want them to pay. That was said as a negotiating point. I told him: Look, if you’re not going to pay, then you’re on your own. And i mean it. And they asked me the question: If we don’t pay? I was asked this long before this event. Do you know that after I said that, you know that billions of dollars went into NATO?”
At some points in the interview, exchanges occurred that show Trump’s strategy, often based on fake news or fake news, which are followed to the death by their followers:
-Journalist: Violent crimes are decreasing throughout the country. There was a 6% drop…
-Yes, they are fake numbers.
-Well, it came out last night. The FBI gave false figures.
-I didn’t see that, but the FBI said there was a 13% drop in homicides in 2023.
-I don’t believe it. It’s not a lie. It’s fake news.
-But these numbers are collected by state and local police departments across the country. Most of them support you. They are wrong?
Yes. Well, maybe, maybe not. The FBI manipulated the numbers and other people manipulated the numbers. There is no way crime has decreased in the last year. There is no way because there is immigration crime. Are they adding to the crime of migrants? Or do they consider it a different form of crime?